OpenText Solution Architect

Role & responsibilities

Solution Architect

You will

• Own the end-to-end solution architecture for business applications, define the target architecture and roadmap, and align them with enterprise architecture and business strategy.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable, secure and maintainable designs covering application, data, integration and security aspects.
• Lead architecture and design decisions, run design reviews and ensure solutions comply with Allianz Technology architecture principles, standards and the Design Authority process.
• Design and govern integrations between applications and platforms, including APIs, middleware, file-based and event-driven interfaces.
• Define and govern the platform strategy, including high availability, disaster recovery, performance, capacity planning, upgrade paths and cloud (Azure/AWS) readiness.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point for 3rd-level support and major incidents, lead root-cause analysis and drive long-term fixes together with vendors and internal teams.
• Steer the management of system updates, patches and enhancements, ensuring compliance with IT security and regulatory requirements.
• Embed data security, access control and compliance with GDPR and other relevant regulations by design in all solutions and integrations.
• Where relevant, contribute to the architecture of the HR application landscape, including SAP SuccessFactors, related integrations and content management solutions such as OpenText.
• Collaborate with IT leadership, business stakeholders, enterprise architects and external vendors, and advise them on technology choices, risks and trade-offs.
• Mentor and coach consultants and developers, set engineering and configuration best practices, and keep architecture documentation and knowledge material current.

Preferred candidate profile

• Around 12+ years of overall IT experience, including a minimum of 6+ years designing and architecting enterprise applications and solutions, with at least 3+ years in an architect or technical lead role.
• Solid experience in solution and enterprise architecture across application, data, integration and security domains, with a track record of leading implementations from design to go-live.
• Strong knowledge of integration architecture and patterns, including REST/SOAP APIs, messaging, event-driven and file-based interfaces, middleware and API management.
• Strong knowledge of architecture for security, high availability, disaster recovery and performance, including database design and Windows Server/Linux environments.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS) and with planning migrations, upgrades and modernisation of enterprise platforms.
• Experience creating and presenting architecture artefacts (e.g. arc42, ADRs, solution designs) and working within architecture governance and design authority processes.
• Strong working knowledge of ITSM frameworks (ITIL certification is a major plus) and experience using tools like ServiceNow, Jira, or Remedy.
• Good to have: SAP SuccessFactors architecture, ideally Employee Central plus further modules (e.g. Recruiting, Onboarding, Learning), including configuration, MDF, business rules and role-based permissions.
• Good to have: integration architecture for HR landscapes, such as SAP Integration Suite (CPI) or comparable middleware, SuccessFactors OData/SOAP/REST APIs and SFTP/event-driven patterns.
• Good to have: OpenText Content Server (OTCS) and Extended ECM, including the Extended ECM for SAP SuccessFactors integration, Archive Center, OTDS and Records Management.
• Good to have: knowledge of the wider HR systems landscape, including SAP HCM, payroll, time management and identity/access integration.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline. Architecture certifications (e.g. TOGAF) are a plus; SAP SuccessFactors and OpenText certifications are nice-to-have.
• Excellent communication, leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decisions, mentor others and interact with stakeholders at all levels.