Employment Contract | Full-time | Flexible Location (EU) | Travel 20–40%
We welcome applications from candidates located in EU countries where Amer Sports maintains a legal employing entity. The role can be performed remotely from one of these locations and requires approximately 20–40% travel.
We're looking for an Enterprise Architect, Platform Owner LeanIX (m/f/d) for Amer Sports' office in Garching (Munich).
Amer Sports is a global collective of iconic sports and outdoor brands, powered by a community of people who share a passion for authenticity, impact, and excellence. We bring together leading brands, talented teams, and a culture built on collaboration. If you’re looking for an environment where you can make an impact and grow your career, we invite you to explore the opportunity below.
Good technology decisions start with clear, reliable data. In this role, you will own and evolve LeanIX — Amer Sports' core EA platform — turning architectural complexity into business-readable insight that helps our leaders and architects move faster and decide smarter. You'll also bring AI into the equation, using it creatively to automate data stewardship, surface portfolio insights, and continuously raise the quality of our architecture repository across a diverse, multi-brand landscape.
EA Data Practice & Portfolio Transparency
- Own and evolve LeanIX as Amer Sports' single trusted source of truth — maintaining a reliable view of the application landscape, capabilities, and dependencies across all brands.
- Translate architectural complexity into business-readable insight — surfacing technology risk, redundancy, and opportunity through structured EA data and visual portfolio views.
- Own the integrity of Amer Sports' capability and application model — defining and governing data models, modelling standards, naming conventions, and lifecycle views that underpin every architecture decision.
- Drive continuous improvement of EA data quality, ensuring the portfolio view remains a reliable foundation for transformation planning, vendor decisions, and integration strategy.
AI-Augmented Architecture
- Leverage AI to accelerate EA insight generation and data stewardship — applying AI-assisted analysis, anomaly detection, and natural language querying to surface portfolio insights faster, automate data quality monitoring, and reduce manual overhead.
Community Building & Enablement
- Build and sustain a cross-functional EA data community — across enterprise, domain, and solution architects, IT, and business stakeholders, turning LeanIX from a tool into a shared language.
- Drive LeanIX adoption across brands and regions — onboarding user groups and establishing governance cadence.
- Act as a coach and enabler to contributors and consumers of EA data — raising architectural literacy across the organization and lowering the barrier to meaningful EA participation.
- Build trust-based working relationships across brand and functional stakeholders — driving engagement and data quality across the organization through willing, broad participation.
You will report to Head of Tech Strategy & Enterprise Architecture
Experience
- 7+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, application portfolio management, or a closely related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience with EA tooling and data governance in multi-brand, multi-entity, or federated environments.
- Track record of driving adoption of EA practices across diverse stakeholder groups, including non-technical business stakeholders.
Technical Expertise
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and capability modeling (TOGAF, BiZBoK).
- Hands-on experience with EA management platforms, ideally SAP LeanIX.
- Deep knowledge of application portfolio management, lifecycle governance, and EA data modeling — including business capabilities, applications, IT components, data objects, interfaces, and dependencies.
- Broad understanding of how major business domains — including ERP, Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Marketing, Retail, and eCom — interact and depend on the EA data model.
- Familiarity with AI tools for data analysis, pattern recognition, and insight generation — and the curiosity to apply them creatively in an EA context.
Education
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Informatics, or equivalent.
Languages
- Fluent English (written and spoken) is mandatory.
How You Work
- You are self-driven with high attention to detail — you take ownership of data quality and don't wait to be asked.
- You can translate complex architectural landscapes into clear, business-readable narratives and communicate confidently across technical and non-technical audiences.
- You influence without authority, build trust across diverse teams, and are motivated to create real impact at group level.
- You bring curiosity and a continuous improvement mindset — always looking for smarter, faster ways to generate insight.
- Experience applying AI or data analytics tools to architecture or portfolio management tasks.
- Background in consulting or a technology advisory environment.
- EA framework certifications (TOGAF, ArchiMate).
- Experience with data quality governance and modelling standards in federated environments.
- German or additional European languages.
At Amer Sports, you’ll be part of a global community of people who care about what they do and how they do it. Across our teams and brands, we are driven by ambition, collaboration, and a shared purpose of elevating the world through sport.
- Work-life flexibility: Enjoy flexible working hours, hybrid work options, generous vacation entitlement, and the possibility to combine work and travel through workation days
- Health & active lifestyle support: Stay active with sports opportunities, access to an on-site fitness room, Wellpass membership, and JobRad bike leasing options.
- Financial and employee benefits: Benefit from employee discounts on quality products from our iconic brands, corporate partner offers, transportation support, free parking, and a company pension plan.
- Employee product benefits: Enjoy access to employee discounts on quality products from our iconic brands.
- Global collaboration: Work with diverse, international teams and collaborate across brands, functions, and markets, learning from different perspectives along the way.
- Access to a global network of leading brands: Work within a global collective of iconic sports and outdoor brands, gaining exposure to different businesses, perspectives, and opportunities across Amer Sports.
- We’re in the game together: Join a culture built on trust, support, and shared responsibility, where progress is achieved together and success is celebrated as a team.
- Purpose‑driven environment: Be part of work that supports healthier, more active lives through our iconic sports and outdoor brands.
- Small teams, real impact: Contribute in small, trusted teams within a global company, where your ideas matter and your work can create real impact.
- Excellence in how we work: Join an environment where quality, innovation, and continuous improvement matter, and where people are encouraged to raise the bar in how work is done.
- Ambitious career development: Develop your skills through meaningful work, new challenges, and collaboration with experienced colleagues.
- Modern technologies and ways of working: Be part of teams that work with modern technologies and continuously evolve how we build, operate, and improve our digital solutions.
- IT: At Amer Sports, IT professionals have the chance to work on cutting-edge projects and implement advanced technologies, driving progress in a globally recognized company with prestigious brands.
- CV screening: Every CV is reviewed by a human.
- Phone screening: A conversation with Amer Sports’ Recruiter to discuss the role, our organization, and your expectations.
- Interviews: 4 rounds, including interviews with the hiring manager and prospective team.
- Feedback and decision: We aim to provide feedback throughout the process.
Please submit your application via the application form. CVs sent by email will not be considered or processed.
If you have any questions or need clarification at any stage of the application process or during your journey with us, please don't hesitate to reach out to [email protected] (HR). Apply and join us in striving for excellence at each step!
