Project Architect Data & ICT

Project overview

Job Description Project Architect Data

The Business Operations Organization West-Betuwe (BWB) performs business operations tasks for the municipalities of West Betuwe, Culemborg, and Tiel. The municipality of Tiel is leaving the BWB. For the disentanglement of this collaboration, the BWB Disentanglement program has been established, which became operational in March 2026. The program plan was adopted on April 22, 2026. The BWB program team works on behalf of the three municipalities and focuses on the disentanglement on the BWB side.

A program team is also operational in Tiel, focusing on the integration and setup of a new business operations unit within the municipality. Both program teams work closely together.

The data task within the disentanglement is complex and closely related to the ICT task. Both programs require insight into the current composition of the existing ICT landscape. Insight into the logical and technical dependencies within BWB's existing ICT landscape is therefore necessary and must be further completed to enable an exit.

With this request, the BWB program team is fulfilling the role of Project Architect Data. The contracting authority is effectively the municipality of Tiel, as they bear the costs for the disentanglement. However, the Project Architect Data functions under the direction of the BWB program team (the client).

The assignment

The Project Architect Data is responsible for completing the logical design of the entire ICT infrastructure that is part of the disentanglement to take place for the municipality of Tiel. The coherence between the different domains in the existing landscape is not at a level to carry out a complex disentanglement project. The integral overview must be created to enable phased migrations.

This coherence will be validated by the Project Architect Data, in conjunction with the standing organization and the Data Project Leader, and will be housed in a system that records the logical relationships of the entire landscape. The task explicitly concerns not only the data itself, but the entire coherent landscape of applications, data, and underlying infrastructure. The Project Architect Data identifies omissions within existing designs and works with the Data Project Leader to address these within the standing BWB organization.

Intended results

During the assignment, the following concrete results are expected from the contractor, aligned with the program's phasing and the full scope of the task (data, applications, contracts, and IT governance). The exact milestones, planning, and delivery moments will be determined and recorded in the project assignment with the client at the start, based on the project's ongoing progress.

Results:

Thereby, the contractor provides a controlled, demonstrable, and traceable substantiation of the existing architecture of the entire data and application landscape for the disentanglement of BWB.

1.5 months - 32 hours per week - 0.89 FTE

Profile of the suited interim professional:

Dutch native or near native

Knock-out criteria:

• A completed and validated inventory of the existing data and application landscape, the underlying infrastructure — the foundation for the transition;
• Development of a risk analysis from the existing architecture of the data and application landscape regarding migration scenarios;
• Active input for the development of a decision-ready disentanglement plan and migration strategy for data and applications from the existing landscape;
• Active participation in the Data project team.
• Demonstrable, current ICT architecture knowledge at a senior level (demonstrated by relevant assignments in the CV);
• Demonstrable knowledge of and certified in working with Archimate ©;
• Demonstrable knowledge of the municipal application landscape, governance, and security, enabling the candidate to recognize the implications of data transfer for other ICT projects and to advise on them and/or identify omissions in available architecture documents;
• Demonstrably completed long-term projects within complex organizations as an ICT Architect, preferably in a municipal or comparable (governmental) context;
• Demonstrable experience in an architecture role, managing multiple parties, suppliers, and internal departments, and substantively understanding complex assignments.

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Location: Tiel, Overijssel, Gelderland, NL
• Languages: Dutch