Your Role in Our Story:
We’re looking for an experienced IT Architect to shape and safeguard ACT’s enterprise-wide IT architecture. In this role, you ensure that our technology landscape is scalable, secure, and aligned with our long-term business strategy.
Working in a modern, cloud-first environment built largely on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft platforms, and SaaS solutions, you act as the architectural quality gate across major initiatives and advise both IT and business stakeholders on strategic technology decisions. You’ll have a strategic impact and influence across the entire organization, helping ACT build a coherent, future-ready IT landscape that grows with the business.
- Define and maintain enterprise architecture principles, standards, and roadmaps
- Translate business strategy into clear, future-proof technology designs
- Lead architecture governance, including design reviews and decision forums
- Ensure consistency and quality across application, data, integration, and security domains
- Partner with engineering teams, product owners, and vendors to guide solution design
- Identify and reduce architectural risk and technical debt
- Coach and mentor your other IT Architect-colleague
- Minimum of 6 years of experience as an IT (Solution) Architect, preferably within a commodity trading environment
- Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft-native technologies
- Experience with cloud-first and SaaS-based architectures
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g. TOGAF)
- Excellent communication skills and the confidence to challenge decisions constructively
- Strong analytical skills to evaluate complex architectures and translate business needs into sustainable IT solutions
- Hands-on mentality which fits to our open company culture
Any of these are a plus:
- Experience within DWS or Datalake
- Coaching/ mentoring skills
If you're excited about this role but don't meet 100% of the requirements, we still encourage you to reach out — we value potential and are always open to development opportunities.
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What We Do
ACT is the world’s leading provider of market-based sustainability solutions. As enablers of the global energy transition, ACT helps organizations hit their climate targets, no matter how ambitious. Since 2009, ACT has become a trusted brand in high-impact climate projects, green electricity markets, renewable energies and energy efficiency, emission allowances and carbon offsets. With a growing portfolio of over 70 products in 40 plus countries, ACT’s consultants in Amsterdam, Shanghai, New York and Paris deliver bespoke solutions backed up by unparalleled market knowledge. ACT builds its relationships on trust and fosters an entrepreneurial environment. In shaping environmental markets, ACT enables its partners to pursue sustainable futures.
