Imagine a future where you shape a simpler, stronger digital foundation for how our shared functions run at scale
Join us in this role where you'll lead our architecture direction across Shared Functions Digital Technology, helping us simplify and consolidate platforms, reduce complexity, and ensure our solutions support the business long term with scaleable, integrated and automated (AI) platforms. You'll guide the solution architects, drive architectural governance and engage closely with senior business stakeholders to achieve the business goal set out.
Welcome to Shared Functions Digital Technology
You'll be part of Shared Functions Digital Technology where you, together with your colleagues, will set the technology and solution architecture direction across our shared functions platform, ensuring strong alignment across domains, vendors, and roadmaps. You'll lead through yoursolutions architects, working across Denmark, Malaysia and Poland, and collaborate closely with product, delivery, and business stakeholders.
As a team, we take ownership, challenge complexity with curiosity and support each other in delivering lasting, sustainable outcomes.
You'll play an important role in:
leading solution architecture and enabling them to deliver through clear direction, delegation, and coaching
setting and governing enterprise and solution architecture principles, standards, and target states across - driving platform simplification and consolidation, balancing cost, risk, and business value
partnering with senior business and technology stakeholders to shape priorities, roadmaps, and investment decisions
ensuring strong architectural direction for SAP-centric landscapes, and contributing to integration and workflow design (e.g.,



ServiceNow, where relevant)
strengthening architectural ways of working, including decision forums, documentation standards, and cross-domain alignment.
To succeed in the role, you:
bring leadership experience from a complex technology landscape, including leading leaders, or equivalent experience
are skilled at setting direction, influencing decisions, and building alignment across senior stakeholders in a large organization
have strong understanding of enterprise and solution architecture, including SAP landscapes, integrations, and governance
are comfortable driving simplification and standardisation, turning complexity into pragmatic, scalable solutions
communicate clearly and confidently, balancing long-term perspective with practical delivery needs
bring a collaborative mindset, and create clarity, trust, and momentum across teams, partners, and vendors.
Maybe you've read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don't quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.
Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We'll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we've found the right candidate.
As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via ******.
Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country.
We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.

📌 Head Of Architecture - Shared Functions Digital Technology (Italia)
🏢 Orsted
📍 Italia