Juan Guillen Scholten

Enterprise Architect DUS-I / Rijksarchitect Digitalisering

The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

About

Juan is an experienced enterprise-wide architect with a solid background in consultancy, research, and IT. Experience in working for several different companies and governmental organizations. Varying from small to large and complex companies’ environments. Job titles include Enterprise architect, head of architecture, process coordinator, business analyst, and researcher. Good communication and presentation skills. Experience in giving talks and workshops at (international) conferences and within projects. Juan contributed to these significant developments: ArchiMate: helped define the first version of the enterprise architecture modeling language. MoCha: defined an academic model and implemented a middleware for the orchestration of complex distributed systems. DigiD: innovating and improving as an architect the identity management platform of the Dutch government. Used by millions of Dutch residents when using governmental digital services. PDOK: enterprise architect of the program that created the leading platform (PDOK) for high-quality geodata in the Netherlands. CNO: enterprise architect of the Cloud Native Overheid (Standaard Platform). Both a private Cloud and a governmental standard (in the making) for the use of cloud technology within the Dutch government. Based on Kubernetes and using the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as a reference. Gezagsmodule: Enterprise architect and business owner of the Authority Determination for Minors IT module. Research and development stages. Currently in use by the Dutch Police and the Royal Netherlands Marechausse.

Experience

  • Overheidsconsultant / Public Sector Consultant at Rijksorganisatie voor Ontwikkeling, Digitalisering en Innovatie (Ministerie van BZK)
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    Public sector consultant (Overheidsconsultant) with specialization on IT Business, Strategy to Implementation and Digital Transformations. A public sector consultant advises government agencies and public organizations on improving strategy, operations, and service delivery to better serve citizens, tackling complex issues like digital transformation, infrastructure, and policy implementation using specialized skills and data analysis to drive efficiency, effectiveness, and social impact. They act as experts to diagnose problems, design solutions, and help implement changes for greater responsiveness and better outcomes. Focusing on e-governance implementation and improving and designing IT systems for both company and citizen services.

  • Enterprise Architect at DUS-I (Dienst Uitvoering Subsidies aan Instellingen)
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr

  • ICT Enterprise-architect at I-Interim Rijk
    Mar 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 4 mos

    Advising and helping governmental agencies, institutions and government ministries with IT architecture strategy, business and technical analysis. Working in a variaty of programms and projects. This includes European procurements, supplier management (ensuring quality on delivered work and managing on an architecture level), migration projects to governmental data centers, consolidation projects and (last but not least) innovation projects. For example modernizing architecture with new worldwide standards.

  • Enterprise Architect Strategie at DICTU
    Jan 2023 - Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Enterprise Architect at the Company Strategy department. DICTU is one of the largest ICT service providers of the Dutch national government. It supports the Ministries of ‘Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality’ and ‘Economic Affairs and Climate Policy’.

  • Domeinarchitect Toegang Logius (kwartiermaker) at Logius
    Jan 2022 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr

    Helping Logius setting up the function of business domain architect in the field of authentication and legal representation.