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Functional / (Technical) Solution Architect

Description

Our client is a global benchmark group in low-carbon energy and services. To respond to the climate emergency, it’s ambition is to become world leader of the transition to a zero-carbon economy of its Customers, notably companies and territorial communities. Our client relies on its key trades (renewables, gas, services) to propose competitive turnkey “as a service” solutions. Its 160,000 employees, Customers, partners and stakeholders form a community of Imaginative Builders, each committed every day towards a more harmonious development. Turnover in 2018: 60.6 billion euros. Listed in Paris and Brussels, the Group is represented in the main financial indexes.

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Mission

To increase its competitiveness and pursue its development in the best conditions, GEM IS division significantly invests in its information system. 
In order to reinforce its teams, the SPaaS IS department of GEM-IS is currently looking for a Technical Architect to be involved in:

  • Project implementation, coordination and support

  • Application Enhancements

  • Production functional support

  • Bug fixing

The service shall be carried out within the teams of the SPAAS IS department, delivering IS solutions to the different operational teams of the SPAAS business platform.

 

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Main activities

  • Maintain and improve the applications of the team

  • Support design and troubleshooting efforts

  • Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.

  • Develop software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes.

  • Promote technical growth, making recommendations on software.

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The candidate for this assignment must have sound experience in the activities described above, with high level analytical skills, rigour as well as a great ability to learn and understand the business requirements. The candidate for this assignment must also be fluent in English, both written and spoken.

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Activities​​​
The Technical Architect outlines solution architecture descriptions across domains, functions, and business domains, then monitors and governs their implementation in projects. For this the Technical Architect works in a close tandem with Enterprise Architecture and Project Manager(s).  You act as part of a project team translating business and IT requirements into solution architecture designs for large or medium scale systems using your knowledge of technologies and integrating existing products and new developments. As such you are expected to:

  • Define the vision on information architecture and data governance within the company;

  • Take ownership of non-functional requirements specification;

  • Review and approve functional and non-functional requirement specifications;

  • Design optimal solution architectures that support the business and help realize the target architecture;

  • Acting as a coach towards the project team(s);

  • Responsible for the overall quality of the solutions (implementation and/or customization);

Crafting the right architecture to solve the problem at hand is only part of architects' responsibilities. The architect must also:

  • Define, document, and communicate it.

  • Share your knowledge of the current solutions, technologies and methodologies with your colleagues by participating to communities of practices.

  • Protect (own) the solution architecture and protect its integrity and consistency. Make sure everyone is using it, and using it correctly.

  • Make sure stakeholders and management understand it (to the detail necessary).

  • Make sure that the architecture is not only the right one for operations, but also for deployment and long term maintenance.

  • You must have experience as solution architect with a wide variety of technologies which must include Azure (MicroServices) and AWS (Data)

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Skills / Requirements

 

General requirements

The consultant(s) put forward for this assignment must have sound experience in the activities described above, with high level analytical skills, rigour as well as a great ability to listen and communicate.

Your profile:

  • You have a master level in information technology;

  • You have excellent skills in multi-technology integration architectures;

  • You are able to ensure architecture governance is followed with all your stakeholders;

  • You are comfortable modelling;

  • You have a good knowledge of the API and Data paradigms;

  • You have a reasonable knowledge of at least one Application Server, one Enterprise Service Bus, one database technology;

  • You are business proficient in English and have good communication skills towards business and IT people both inside the company and with external counterparts. Dutch and/or French is a plus;

  • Being able to productively communicate with all profiles in a multidisciplinary team;

  • You are able to work autonomously while being a team player and in a stressful environment with changing priorities;

  • You have a strong appetite in learning and are eager to share your knowledge;

  • You are pro-active, and dedicated to accomplishment;

  • You are open to new way of working and you are bringing alternatives forward;

  • You have experience in working in medium to large team (4 to 8 dev) in a very large company (1.500 people);

  • You have knowledge of utility market (is an asset);

 

Your experience:

  • You have minimum 10 years of experience in the IT sector including 5 years in IT solutions design on complex projects;

  • In-depth experience in the field of Software Development Projects, Digital Transformation or Data Transformation is an additional major asset;

  • Leading meetings with various stakeholders from various business with different interests;

  • Application Life Cycle Management: functional design, functional testing, release, hotfixes, …

  • You are familiar with Agile organization and related rituals and Project Management;

  • Organization and time management skills to keep projects on track and within budget.

 

Technical skills

  • Multi-technology architectures : Advanced (Azure, AWS)

  • Application Life Cycle Management : Advanced (ITIL)

  • Agile organization and related rituals : Confirmed (Agile, Spotify, Azure, DevOPS,...)

  • Data analysis skills : Confirmed (AWS)

  • Dashboarding and reporting skills : Advanced (MS PPT/Excel)

  • Complex data visualization : Junior

  • Programming and coding skills : Junior (Pyhton, C#, Java) - Not mandatory but a PLUS

 

Functional skills

  • Critical thinking and problem solving - Advanced

  • Team work and collaboration - Confirmed

  • Write, edit, summarize - Confirmed

  • Facilitate discussion and meetings - Advanced

  • Math skills - Junior

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Do you want to apply for this job ? Let us know and send your CV to hello@akindra.ro

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