Solution Architect - Cloud Architecture

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Maintain the Division/Department architecture reference documentation all along the changes brought by projects:
• IT system diagrams (Division level, or per sub-block)
• Application referential (with the help of Application Owners)
• Division level principles and related non-conformities and remediation plans
• Obsolescence KPIs
• Lead the Cloud solution architecture on the projects he/she is assigned to:
• Supporting the Project Manager/Business Analysts during solution ideation, design, and implementation 
• Collaborating with application teams and Business Analysts/Tech leads of impacted applications to design the solution
• Ensuring the alignment of projects with our architecture principles and IT standards
• Ensuring the solution is optimized for running on our IBM Private Cloud
• Support project managers and tech leads along the architecture validation process by:
• Leading the build of a consistent architecture documentation 
• Presenting his projects in architecture validation committee
• Being the reference point on a set of applications for support/evolution activities
• Supporting the architecture process till the go-live
• Bringing Cloud and architecture awareness to application teams
• Being the reference architect on a set of applications for support/evolution activities (having low architecture impacts), before and after they are migrated into the Cloud platform.
• Collaborate with following roles:
• Project managers/Business analyst of major transversal projects he/she is assigned to
• Tech leads/Developers, to understand the architecture of the applications/screens and analyze potential issues
• Application owner, to update the referential information on applications
• Engineering and Production team, to check the availability/compatibility with infrastructure/Cloud services
• Enterprise Architects, to facilitate the review and validation process.
• Ensure the reference documentation is updated all along the changes brought by projects:
• Application referential 
• IT architecture diagrams and documents
• Application non-conformities and remediation plans
• Architecture principles, checklist, guidelines

Contributing Responsibilities

• Provide and share specific expertise on our Cloud capabilities and in selected technical areas
• Participate to studies and proof-of-concepts with the business before a project is launched

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Mandatory

• Experience on designing and developing Cloud-native solutions
• Experience on Cloud migration, integration patterns, high availability patterns, etc. (e.g. REST APIs, Container platforms, Event-driven architecture, etc)
• Broad technical knowledge and experience across application, development frameworks and technologies
• Experience with Java/Spring/Angular, Oracle/PostgreSQL DB, Linux, API, Kafka etc. 
• Functional/Business knowledge (of his current/past companies), ideally on core banking or portfolio management systems. Interest in Financial & Banking industry
• Experience working on a project or in an architecture team covering a large ecosystem of applications (30+)
• Experience in modeling activities (application maps, software design models, data modeling, infrastructure diagrams, etc.)
• Strong analysis skills with problem solving attitude
• Ability to communicate effectively in written documents and oral presentations, explaining concepts clearly to audiences at various levels of technical knowledge
• Effective leadership, planning and organization skills

Plus

• Experience of Enterprise Architecture discipline, processes, concepts, and best practices
• Experience in Wealth Management, or Financial and Banking Industry
• Knowledge of a Wealth Management Core Banking System such as Temenos Transact, ERI Olympic or Avaloq
• SCRUM/Agile experience
• Experience running Request for Proposal and assessing solutions

Specific Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Engineering with minimum 10 years of experience
• 3+ years of experience architecting or developing solutions in a Cloud environment
• 5+ years of experience in IT either as an Enterprise Architect or Solution Architect
• Good to have Architecture certification (TOGAF) or Cloud Architect certification (AWS, IBM Cloud) 

Education Level: 

 Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 10 years

Other/Specific Qualifications

• IBM Cloud certification from BNPP (101 and Bronze)
• Other Cloud Architect certification (AWS, Azure, Google)
• Architecture certification (TOGAF)