Technical Workplace Architect - workplace environments

Project overview

This contract role will help renew the digital workplace for an independent administrative body in The Hague, within the CIO Office architecture team and under the functional direction of the enterprise architect. The architect will design a Microsoft 365 hybrid workplace, produce PSA and HLD documents, guide delivery teams, and resolve integration issues with on-premises legacy environments.

Required qualifications include recent workplace architecture experience with Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune, Autopilot, and Windows 11; government architecture experience applying NORA or EAR; BIO implementation experience; a valid TOGAF or ArchiMate certificate; and C1 Dutch. The assignment requires evidence of at least two workplace concept implementations for organizations with at least 1,000 workstations, and at least three years of relevant architecture work within the past five years; the structured experience band is 5–7 years overall.

A Computer Science-related bachelor's degree, current Microsoft workplace/security certifications, and further experience with Zero Trust, conditional access, and central-government cloud and privacy frameworks are desirable; the contract is located in The Hague, but the work mode is not specified.

Responsibilities

• Designing and integrating a modern Microsoft 365 hybrid workplace with Intune and Entra ID
• Drafting the Project Start Architecture (PSA) and High-Level Designs (HLD)
• Managing and guiding the migration and management teams towards a successful delivery on schedule.
• Translating NORA guidelines and ministerial architecture principles into concrete technical designs and action lists
• Ensuring that the hybrid cloud infrastructure and cloud workplace comply with the BIO, the Woo, and the GDPR
• Solving complex integration issues between the cloud workplace and on-premises legacy environments
• Collaborating with engineers on workable technical solutions
• Working within the architecture team of the CIO Office, part of the I-domain Directorate
• Functional direction by the enterprise architect
• Contribute to the renewal of the digital workplace
• Operating within a complex, hybrid government infrastructure with on-premises legacy environments
• Working at an independent administrative body with over 800 colleagues, spread across nine directorates.

Requirements

• Workplace architecture using Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Intune, Autopilot, and Windows 11, including at least 3 years of relevant architecture work in the past 5 years
• Design and guided implementation of at least 2 workplace concepts in the past 5 years for organizations with at least 1,000 workstations
• Valid, completed TOGAF or ArchiMate certification at assignment start
• Translate BIO measures into workplace designs, such as conditional access, hardening, or Zero Trust
• At least 1 year as an architect at a (semi-)government organization in the past 5 years, applying NORA or EAR
• C1-level spoken and written Dutch
• Produce Project Start Architecture (PSA) and High-Level Design (HLD) documents
• Design and integrate hybrid cloud workplace solutions with on-premises legacy environments
• Apply BIO, Woo, and GDPR requirements to workplace and hybrid-cloud designs

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Netherlands, NL