Global E2E Enterprise Architect (m/f/d)

Advantest is the global market leader in automated test systems for the semiconductor industry, enabling tomorrow’s technology. We have embarked on a digital transformation journey, which is a key enabler for our continuous business growth.

As an Enterprise Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Advantest’s process, data and technology landscape and our business transformation. You will connect the dots across business, process, data and IT domains, ensuring end-to-end alignment of strategy, architecture, and execution. Your focus will be on anticipating future trends, identifying technology needs, and designing scalable, sustainable solutions that drive our continued success.

Your contribution
As part of the global transformation, you will shape our global architecture at Advantest covering all business and functional units and their strategic needs
• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap, aligning business goals with business and technological capabilities
• Act as a strategic advisor, partnering with business and IT leaders to identify opportunities for innovation and transformation
• Understand business requirements and impact on architecture; develop E2E integrated solutions to fulfil requirements; advise how to address business needs using existing or required future architecture components; translate enterprise architecture aspects into meaningful, easy to understand, relevant information for the internal stakeholders
• Analyze emerging trends and technologies, assess their potential impact, and recommend adoption strategies
• Lead the design of an E2E scalable and modular integrated architecture to enable Advantest’s growth
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration with business, process, data and solution architects as well as business partners to ensure architectural coherence
• Establish and govern architecture standards and principles; process owner for Architecture Lifecycle
• Facilitate and contribute to cross-functional governance for key decisions
• Support the Business Process Re-engineering Transformation management team in holistic architectural reviews of cross functional projects

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field
• Proven experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or process transformation in a global, high-tech environment.
• Experience working with TOGAF or Zachman; Lean Six Sigma & BPMN is a plus
• Strong understanding of digital transformation and technology trends (e.g., digital sovereignty, data protection; IoT, AI, cloud); strong technical standing or IT background
• Strategic mindset and ability to connect the dots across the whole company
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a global context
• Self-starter with analytical mindset, ability to delve into technical details as well as manage key business stakeholders (at C-level)