Senior) Applications

**This position is based at our Luxembourg headquarters and requires regular office presence.**The EIB offers you the opportunity to live and work in a truly international and multi-cultural environment. We also offer relocation support.

The **EIB**, the European Union's bank, is seeking to recruit for Information Systems Directorate (IS), Enterprise Architecture Unit (EA), at its headquarters in Luxembourg, a **(Senior) Applications & Technology Architect**.**

**This is a full-time position at grade 5/6 for which the EIB offers a permanent contract.**
- _Internal benchmark: _(Senior) Engineer IT Technology & Infrastructure_
- Panel interviews are foreseen as from June 2025_

**Purpose**:
Do you excel at integrating complex solutions, drawing from diverse technology stacks, and leading innovation from concept to execution?

We’re looking for a visionary architect, someone who understands that every design choice impacts the future of business operations and recognizes the power of thoughtful architecture in shaping digital transformation.

Ready to make a lasting impact? Join us and help shape the future.

**Operating Network**:
The role of the Enterprise Architecture Unit is to support the EIB Group to convert traditional businesses and ways of working to digital ones, using the potential of modern technologies and data. The aim is to establish a comprehensive business transformation strategy, synchronised with operational imperatives, and aligned with the overarching Digital strategy and vision. It ensures alignment in the strategic transformation journey while maintaining a consistent architecture.

It facilitates the discussions between the Value Chains (VC) and platforms and support and monitor the Value Chains in their business processes optimisation, the delivery of solutions and activation of innovation.

In this position, you would report directly to the Head of Unit.

**Accountabilities**:

- Design Tomorrow's Solutions, Today. Dive into the heart of our operations, joining forces with our elite Solution Architects and Delivery teams. Your collaborative spirit and foresight will help sculpt the enterprise's future, ensuring our architectural efforts are not just current but pioneering.
- Maintain the architectural body of knowledge by documenting the architectural designs in place and manage the initiatives (knowledge repository that encompass any relevant matter linked to architecture such as prioritisation, feedbacks problems or new ideas and guides architectural development)
- Ensure the alignment between Application Architecture practices with markets standards and best practices, including relevant monitoring activities
- Work closely with senior leaders, transforming business needs into technological solutions, building architectural bridges that enhance our journey from aspiration to reality.

**Qualifications**:

- University degree (minimum an equivalent to a Bachelor) preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Understanding of data architecture, including database design, data modeling, and data integration
- Excellent knowledge of English and/or French (**), with a good command of the other. Knowledge of other EU languages would be an advantage.

**Competencies**:

- Find out more about EIB core competencies _here

To find out more about our eligibility criteria click here
- (**) Unless stated explicitly as a required qualification, a good command of French is not a pre-requisite for hire._ _As both English and French are however official working languages of the EIB, proficiency in both languages is a pre-requisite for your future career development._ _Any language clause in your contract must be fulfilled in order for you to be eligible for a promotion (either via the annual appraisal cycle or via an internal selection process)._ _Proficiency is understood to mean the attainment of _level 5 of the Inter Institutional language courses, corresponding to B1.2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL)._ _The Bank offers appropriate training support._
- This is an open campaign to consecutively fill open position. The campaign will remain open until position is filled. Applications will be reviewed in order of receipt._

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