Summary

We are building a multidisciplinary Architecture team and looking for the best talents to help us defining the future architecture model to support businesses ambitions.

Key responsibilities include:

• Define and maintain an overarching technical strategy for the IT group in collaboration with the Architecture team and leadership.
• Ensure that architecture definition and subsequent technical implementations are in accordance with best practice, able meet the current and future business needs.
• Drive innovation to meet complex business challenges and extremely diverse stakeholder requirements.
• Establish excellent relationships with ITO function, business stakeholders and PMO.
• Support new technology adoption, ensuring consistency with business and technology strategy.
• Collaborate closely with partner vendors (such as Platform software vendor) groups to ensure that technical environments are suitable for current and future purpose.
• Ensure that all systems architecture is in accordance with Corporate Security requirements.
• Define and maintain an accurate representation of current technology and new technology integration state.
• Champion best practice in architecture governance and process, ensure solution proposals adhere to best practice wherever possible.
• Able to fully and accurately assess the risk to business of in place solutions and future technology implementation proposals.
• Support cost/benefit analysis for all solution proposals.
• Lead external suppliers to identify and evaluate technology improvements to support business initiatives and drive increased efficiency.
• Conduct research and studies on emerging technologies to support business initiatives and increase cost effectiveness and flexibility.
• Act as subject matter expert on IT technology solutions, and available solutions in the market place to meet business needs.
• Resolve design technical problems promptly and thoroughly when they arise in an inclusive manner.
• Ensure all stakeholders fully engaged, informed and able to make appropriate decisions.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, automation and process improvement through technology.
• Collaborate with the Architecture team, ITO teams and Technology leadership to define the best of breed Cloud, Multi Cloud setups.
• Participate to roadmaps alignment with ITO teams.
• Support the Architecture team and the overall Technology functions with infrastructure requirement related to Architecture implementations.
• Incentive knowledge sharing of Cloud across the Architecture team and ITO.
• Produce technical documentation for Architecture and ITO teams.
• Collaborate with ITO with the design and implementation of the required solutions.
• SME for Public Cloud design within the Architecture function.

Requirements

• Experience designing solutions for the Public Cloud (Google GCP, AWS), Multi Cloud and Hybrid setup.
• Understanding of Cloud Native Principles.
• Experience delivering robust solutions around IAM management, storage, databases and replication based on cloud solutions.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of DevOps practices such as CI, CD, and Infra as Code, Cloud, and Monitoring.
• Experience building end-to-end CI & CD platforms using tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, Concourse, and Flux.
• Experience building containerization orchestrator with specific knowledge around Kubernetes.
• Experience designing ‘infrastructure as code’ environment using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet.
• Experience in designing solutions based on Openstack.
• Experience implementing end-to-end delivery life cycles and understanding of SDLC.
• Experience designing and implementing Logging and Monitoring solutions.
• Experience in scripting language like Python, Bash, and Ruby.
• Engineering experience with Linux based systems.
• Experience implementing Disaster Recovery solutions.
• Experience refactoring existing Legacy solutions to adopt a Microservices-based architecture.
• Experience in leading the design of significantly sized or complex systems.
• Forward-thinker: keep up to date with emerging technologies which could support the organization in the future.
• Continuously challenging the status quo.
• Attention to detail.
• Feeling comfortable working with different teams, functions and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Holistic view across multiple IT domains.
• Collaborative approach to build the best of breed solutions in collaboration with the rest of the Architecture teams and IT operations.