Order A9475 - Enterprise Architect IT – Enterprise Architecture in the Infrastructure Portfolio

Project overview

Start Date: January 2027

Industry: Public Sector

Responsibilities

• Collaboration in the portfolio core team; coordination with internal enterprise architecture, business units, and technical departments.
• Analyze and document existing IT architecture and dependencies.
• Develop and evaluate architectural options; prepare substantiated decision bases and recommendations.
• Develop target and transition architectures including transformation paths; information and data architecture with the data management team.
• Analyze impacts on applications, data, interfaces, and infrastructure; assess technical risks and create architecture artifacts.
• Provide architectural support for initiatives and evaluations; prepare workshops, document and visualize results.

Requirements

Advantageous (evaluation relevant):

IMPORTANT:

Languages

Languages Spoken Written Priority

French Good Good Advantageous

German Very Good Very Good Must-have

Description Priority

Enterprise Architect Must-have

Kind regards / Best Regards

André van Sprundel

CEO

GHR Global Human Resources AG

Blegistrasse 13

CH-6340 Baar / ZG

Direct line: *

Email: *@*.ch

Web: www.ghrgroup.ch

• Education -> University degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, Geomatics or similar – or comparable education with further training.
• Enterprise Architecture -> several years of practical experience in enterprise architecture with an IT focus, in public administration or a comparably large company.
• Reference projects (evaluation decisive) -> TWO comparable references from IT enterprise architecture with substantial personal involvement – each as a contractor, minimum one year duration, minimum 150 person-days, project start after 2018.
• Subject domains -> Infrastructure or Asset Management and BIM.
• Methodology & Certifications -> TOGAF from V9.2 (preferably Practitioner), ArchiMate 3.2, BPMN 2.0 and UML 2.5. Submit valid official certificates; course or internal company confirmations are not accepted.
• Language -> German as project and documentation language; all deliverables and any assessment in German, without translation.
• GIS and geodata – explicitly listed as an audit item in the evaluation grid.
• Good French skills for collaboration with French-speaking departments and workshops.
• Architectural work within an existing governance with binding principles and guidelines from multiple bodies.
• Remote policy -> 60% on-site at the client / 40% home office, depending on the project phase; remote work only allowed within Switzerland.
• Debt and criminal record extracts will be requested (residence Germany: SCHUFA information and police clearance certificate).
• Residence in Switzerland or valid C residence permit upon offer submission.
• Personnel security screening (PSP) is required.

Project details

12 months with option

Possible contract types: Secondment

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Deadline: 15.11.2026, 22:00

Bern

Date created: 02.11.2026

Description

For our end client from the Swiss public sector, we are looking for an Enterprise Architect with an IT focus for a multi-year infrastructure portfolio as follows:

Starting situation & mandate:

The end client is responsible for a nationally significant infrastructure throughout its entire lifecycle and operates a comprehensive application landscape for this purpose, including business applications, geographic information systems, and systems for infrastructure and condition data. Applications and data sets that have grown over years make holistic further development difficult today.

A cross-divisional portfolio shapes the future of digital infrastructure management. The role strengthens its core team, develops and evaluates architectural options (data, applications, integration, technology) as a basis for decision-making, and concretizes target and transition architectures up to implementation.

• Start: 2027-01
• Duration: 12 Monate
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Bern, Schweiz, CH
• Languages: German