Domain Architect - Energy Trading

Details

At Eneco, energy trading plays a key role in enabling the energy transition. As an Architect in the Trade domain, your work directly supports reliable markets, renewable integration and Eneco’s ambition to be climate neutral by 2035.

You will work in an environment where content matters. You get the freedom to make architectural choices, influence direction and see the impact of your work quickly. Eneco values collaboration, learning and ownership and gives you space to grow as a professional and as a person.

Responsibilities

• Translate commercial strategy and product vision into clear and future‑proof architecture and future‑state roadmaps.
• Work closely with product management, engineering managers, development teams and business analysts on new initiatives.
• Cover the full scope of energy trading, including portfolio management, asset‑backed trading, trade operations and business control.
• Identify opportunities in the market and propose improvements that increase resilience, scalability and business value.
• Simplify the landscape and address architectural risks early.
• Develop and maintain a coherent future‑state application architecture.
• Align COTS, SaaS and custom solutions, integrations and data platforms.
• Promote standardisation, data centralisation and effective integration across the Trade domain.
• Reduce complexity and remove bottlenecks to improve agility and performance.
• Align with platform architects and engineering teams on hosting, lifecycle management and solution design.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to identify and mitigate architectural risks.
• Document current and future state architecture using ArchiMate in Ardoq.
• Actively contribute to the Architecture Community of Practice by sharing insights, standards and best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in an architecture role bridging business and IT.
• Strong knowledge of the energy market, ideally wholesale trading and related administrative processes.
• Familiarity with energy trading applications such as ETRM, market data management, asset scheduling or virtual power plants.
• Understanding of the impact of mission‑critical deployments on cloud platforms, high‑availability environments and modern data stacks.
• Strong skills in business, data, and application architecture and modeling.
• Experience with architecture standards and frameworks; experience with ArchiMate/TOGAF is preferred.
• Experience documenting architectures in Ardoq (or similar) is expected.
• Clear communicator who enjoys working with many different stakeholders.
• Dutch language skills are preferred.

Where you’ll work

• You will work in the Trade domain focusing on systems and value chains that support Eneco’s commercial activities in dynamic energy markets.
• You are part of a management team that consists of multiple engineering managers and architects.
• Hybrid working model: work 40% at the office, 40% from home, and 20% flexibly. With manager approval you may work abroad (within approved countries) up to 3 weeks/year, max 2 consecutively.

Benefits

• Gross annual salary between €80,000 and €130,000 (including FlexBudget, 8% holiday allowance, and depending on role a bonus or collective profit sharing).
• FlexBudget: paid out, used to buy extra holiday days or saved for other uses.
• Personal and professional development support.
• Hybrid working and flexible options.

Application & Contact

For questions about the application procedure, contact our recruiter:

• Arthur Rijk — +31624904466

If you do not meet every requirement but recognize yourself in this role, Eneco encourages you to apply.