Lead Architect (Replacement Request)

Project overview

Assignment Description

The lead architect will work for the Maritime Information Center (MOC) project for the Coastguard. Within the Maritime Operations Center of the Coastguard, the information provision necessary for Information-Driven Operations is presented from a JIVC/Maritime IT custom-built application Guardion Coastguard (GCG). GCG is also being placed within a new ICT infrastructure and uses various subsystems, standard ICT services, and a large number of external links. Various architectural designs have been drawn up for this.

At the start of the project, a Project Start Architecture was delivered, which secured the principles of the designs. The lead architect's area of work is to guarantee the cohesion within these designs in relation to the start architecture and business principles and organizational goals of the Coastguard within the Maritime IT domain architecture within the MOC project. In short, making the stated end solution work. A lead architect primarily focuses on project-wide aspects of the Coastguard's ICT architecture.

He initiates and monitors the various architectures within JIVC and with suppliers, with the aim of forging them into a cohesive whole. The lead architect therefore communicates at all levels and is responsible for monitoring the overall operation and ensuring continuity. However, decision-making primarily lies with the MOC steering group and the MOC project leader.

Responsibilities

Formulating principles, standards, guidelines, and procedures;

Developing strategic scenarios for the development of GCG;

Defining subsystems, data collections, storage, and processing;

Data and information exchange with external and internal environments or systems;

Specifying and tracking the quantitative data belonging to systems;

Determining the requirements for the technical infrastructure;

Creating and maintaining a roadmap;

Creating and maintaining a blueprint;

Guiding project architects, domain architects, and designers;

Developing product selection criteria for the procurement of new software or hardware components;

Comparing existing architectures with target architectures (ongoing);

Analyzing technical innovations and trends and assessing their applicability.

Documenting the chosen designs in (functional, technical) designs.

Background of the assignment

The MOC Coastguard project is carried out by the Ministry of Defence. This project realizes new housing and replaces and innovates the IT resources of the Coastguard. This is done in collaboration with Maritime IT as a supplier. The Coastguard is the supplier, the client. This assignment takes place in Den Helder.

Requirements

Utilizing specific knowledge to define relevant ICT technology and specifications that can be used in the construction of multiple IT projects, applications, and infrastructure improvements.

Candidate has a minimum of a Bachelor's degree (HBO).

Candidate has a minimum of 10 years of demonstrable work experience in IT (10 years).

Candidate has a minimum of 5 years of demonstrable work experience with common methods, techniques, and tooling for working under architecture (5 years).

Candidate has a minimum of 5 years of demonstrable work experience with organizational factors that influence the architecture component (data, application, security, development, etc.) (5 years).

Wishes

Candidate preferably has a Master's degree in ICT.

Candidate preferably has experience with architectures and methods in large organizations and their application, such as: TOGAF, Archimate, Scaled Agile, ISO 27000 series (security).

Candidate preferably has experience with Defence architecture landscapes.

Additional Information

Hybrid: Minimum 2 days in the office, preferably 3 days. When you offer a professional to us as a supplier and they are placed, we will need information from you as a contracting party, including regarding the Chain Liability Act (Wet keten- en inlenersaansprakelijkheid). The purpose of the 'WKA' is to prevent abuse in the remittance of payroll taxes at all links in the chain; from supplier to client. We cover these risks for our clients through a blocked account, the G-account.

This is an account to which a portion of the invoice amount is deposited and from which you can pay payroll taxes and VAT to the Tax Authorities. The percentage to be deposited depends on whether you have SNA certification (NEN-4400-1 or NEN-4400-2) and whether your company is located in the Netherlands or abroad. You can apply for the G-account from the Tax Authorities. If you cannot obtain a G-account (and you can provide proof of this from the Tax Authorities), you also have the option to submit an accountant's statement (assurance report regarding personnel lending) every quarter.

In this, a certified accountant (AA or RA) will issue a statement about the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of the remittances. Please note that the costs for this statement are at your own expense.

Project details

• Start: 2025-06-30T22:00:00
• Location: Den Helder Noord-Holland, NL
• Languages: Dutch