Senior Architect

The Solution Architect is responsible for designing solution(s) that address a given problem, generally a business need. They define the end-to-end solution(s), across all views: business, application, data, and sometimes technical, in alignment with the evolution of the information system, prioritizing the bank’s existing solutions first, from a functional and/or application perspective, while considering internal and external constraints (risks, costs, timelines, security, etc.). The profile sought is a solution architect specializing in technology.
They are also responsible for ensuring the integrity of the Information System with respect to business requirements, in compliance with the Group’s architecture standards, the Group’s platform strategy, and the overall urbanization framework defined by the Enterprise Architect, to meet performance, sustainability, and scalability requirements.

Activities:
•    Define stable and coherent target architectures, identify redundancies and complexities, and propose transformation, simplification, or rationalization roadmaps aimed at improving architectural efficiency for both execution and operational use, in line with the company’s business strategy. A particular focus is expected on reducing running costs of the Information System and on solution frugality, with an emphasis on reusing Group assets.
•     Assess transformation capacity and define achievable transition paths.
•     Ensure alignment of the Information System with business objectives and IT roadmaps, while guaranteeing cross-functional consistency of projects and solutions within the overall IS and process urbanization.
•    Apply architecture standards, including technology standards, methodologies, internal repositories, and regulatory requirements, while contributing to their continuous improvement within the company, and promoting a platform-based architecture approach for the IS.
•    Produce gap analyses, assess the technical and functional impacts of the architecture framework and/or projects across all IT departments, identify risks, and provide decision-support elements to stakeholders.
•    Produce architecture documentation, ensure the compliance of proposed solutions with the architecture framework and Group-wide transversal requirements, in collaboration with stakeholders and architecture teams.
•    Explain and popularize the bank’s architecture and/or transformation strategy within governance bodies and various committees.
•    Monitor developments in their architecture domain (technical, technological, and regulatory), assess innovation opportunities, evaluate experiments, and integrate relevant solutions into IS roadmaps.
•    Participate in governance bodies and ensure compliance with architecture decisions during the execution of strategic projects. Contribute to the maturity of the enterprise architecture process.
•    Support projects throughout their lifecycle by defining functional, application, data, and technical architectures, and by validating evolution scenarios while considering various constraints, within a collaborative and communicative approach with IT departments and business teams.
•    Contribute to the collection of inputs supporting the drafting of the TSP under the guidance of their architecture manager.
 

Technical Skills:

•    Mastery of architecture deliverables (TSP, architecture design documents, IS representations) that positively influence the IS strategy and its adoption by management within their domain / IT department.
•    Knowledge of architecture standards, including technology standards and methodologies.
•    Mastery of modeling techniques to represent current and target architectures clearly and effectively.
•    Knowledge and mastery of architecture patterns.
•    Operational knowledge of the relevant functional and technical domains.
•    Solid experience with Microsoft Azure services, including AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), Key Vault, Storage Accounts, and related cloud-native components.
•    Good understanding of messaging and event-driven architectures, with hands-on experience in tools such as RabbitMQ or IBM MQ.
•    Experience with modern DevOps toolchains, including:
         o    GitHub Actions (or similar CI tools)
         o    Helm Charts (Kubernetes package management)
         o    Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
         o    Argo CD (GitOps continuous delivery)
•    Strong development background in at least one of the following:
         o    Java
         o    .NET (C#)
Behavioral Skills:

•    Adopt an independent and collaborative posture, always keeping the bank’s interests in mind.
•    Demonstrate initiative and communicate clearly and effectively, adapting to the audience.
•    Active listening, dialogue skills, and the ability to synthesize complex topics; strong persuasion skills and positive influence with partners.
•    Demonstrate curiosity within their environment and openness to the outside world to follow market trends and benchmark against the external ecosystem.
•    Communicate effectively, both in writing and orally, in French and English, in an international or multicultural context.

LANGUAGE: 

Ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, is a requirement as the person in this position will need to collaborate regularly with colleagues and partners in the United States. 

Due to US Federal Securities law that may apply to this position, candidates who will apply for this position may be required to submit to an enhanced background screening, including the collection of their fingerprints by a third-party vendor selected by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA").

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