Menno van Rijk

Enterprise Architect & Solution Architect - from concept to implementation, using innovation to improve your business

Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands

About

I am an enterprise, solution architect and management consultant with much experience in all aspects of definition, analysis, development, planning, maintenance and sales support of Business and IT solutions. I am able to play role a role as enterprise-, information-, solution-, integration and/or lead-architect or designer, but also be pragmatic in developing solutions and creating proof of concepts supporting pre-sales internally of externally. I have competences in several domains like Government, Finance, Telecom, HR, Environment and infrastructure (e.g. licensing, inspections and geographical information systems), Publishing, Tax, Social security, Oil & gas, and expertise in integration and IT supporting methods and tools. I am usually participating in business critical projects with a large enterprise wide scope, with focus on innovation, analytics, architecture, including reuse of components, solutions, data and integration. What I like is a challenging environment, active within a team, ability to takes responsibility and a leading role. I am client oriented, pragmatic and have the ability to communicate complex topics in an easy understandable way on all (management) levels. By combining IT and business skills I am effectively creating valuable solutions for clients. I am able to work in an IT organization as well as in a Business organization .

Experience

  • Solution architect Common Ground at Gemeente Utrecht
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    Participation as solution architect in the municipality program Common Ground. Primary focus is applications and registers in the physical domain (e.g. real estate), based on the Common Ground principles. For the program see also https://commonground.nl/. Relevant concepts: IMBOR, IBRO, Linked data concept, Document management including usage of AI, Integration with BAG, BRK, BRP, HR, SAP and Geo registers.

  • Enterprise and Solution Architect at Devoteam
    Feb 2014 - Present · 12 yrs 6 mos

    Solution and Information architect, Data Analytics consultant, management consultant and presales for a company which is specialised in enterprise integration, applying BPM, SOA, Data Analytics, Agile/Scrum and EAI architectures and technology of different vendors (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Tibco, Oracle and Software AG)

  • Enterprise and solution architect UBO-register trusts, Dutch Business register (Handelsregister) at Kamer van Koophandel
    Aug 2020 - Feb 2025 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    Definition of architecture and design of the new UBO-register trusts including alignment with stakeholders and other people involved. Also participating in the architectural development of the KVK Business register (Handelsregister).

  • Senior Data Analytics Consultant at FrieslandCampina
    Aug 2017 - Aug 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Analyse of financial and other types of data (e.g. supply chain) of business units Cheese Butter Milk and Ingredients, using their self service BI environment.

  • Senior Data Architect at YoungCapital
    Sep 2018 - Feb 2019 · 6 mos

    Architecture and design of new Datawarehouse (including datamarts Finance and Operations) to facilitate reporting and analysis by business. Using Google Cloud / Google BigQuery products, while integrating with several source systems and enabling used BI and ETL Tooling (Alteryx, Tableau)