Infrastructure and Platform Architect - L2

Solution Architect II
Product roadmap Definition Senior Solution Architect will have a broad scope of involvement in the construction and evolution of the Product Line/Product Roadmaps working with multiple product teams to ensure Platforms/Solutions are architectured following Enterprise Architecture strategy and principles, aligned with the overall Product Strategy. Analyse the current Business Application Architecture landscape of the given Product, to identify weaknesses and develop opportunities for improvements. Develop migration strategies to close gaps between current and future states of the Product Architecture. Product Roadmap Execution Plays the Architect Lead role for initiatives, projects (waterfall) and Epics/ARTs (Agile) being executed under the responsibility of the Product Line the Architect is assigned to o Provides Architectural guidance and leadership to Product teams on complex solutions and ensures that they are scalable, secure and aligned with Givaudans long term objectives o Liaise with other Solution Architects in other Products within the Product Line/Digital Solution/Horizontal to bring together viewpoints of Enterprise, Solution, information and technology architecture to design solutions that business value and enable organisations to become resilient and future-fit. o Responsible for validating solution Architecture: Ensures initiatives, projects (waterfall) and Epics/User Stories (Agile) comply with established EA principles, standards and guidelines. o Liaise with Enterprise Architects to check on how initiatives, projects (waterfall) and Epics/User Stories (Agile) contribute to close the gap between todays and future Business Capabilities o Responsible for building and for the completeness of the Solution Architecture Design (SAD) document, liaising with all other Architects to make sure SAD is complete. o Responsible for documenting new and/or changes on existing Solutions for her/his Product lines/Products in Mega o Ensures initiative/project functional and technical dependencies / impacts are considered and handled by the respective IT stakeholders (incl. Security aspects) o Responsible to involve Enterprise Architects to guarantee coherence of the proposed Architectures in initiatives, projects (waterfall) and ART/Epics/User Stories (Agile) that are Cross Product, Cross Vertical (Digital Solutions), Cross Horizontal (IT&O, Information Security, Data & Analytics) Responsible for the ADR (Architecture Decision Record): Analyses high level requirements and identifies potential scenarios. Leads solution assessments (reuse-buy-build). Able to guide technical community engineers to ensure that the solutions being developed / implemented are using the latest and most appropriate technology stack Credentials & Experience Required Higher Education completed preferably with a degree in Engineering or Computer Science. Minimum of 8+ years of professional working experience within the field of Solution architecture Skills Familiar with Architecture Frameworks and development/operational methodologies (e.g., ITIL, ITSM ) with excellent knowledge of information systems, related modelling methods & tools Good understanding of Innovation approaches and methodologies (Design Thinking, lean Start-up, ) Good knowledge of MSA, Backend & Front End technologies and Mobile technologies Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), SOA, APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics.