IT Architect

What impact you can make

We are looking for an experienced IT architect capable to understand the functional/business needs of the client and translate this into functional/technical requirements and specifications. The main area of work is linked to development of a middleware platform mixing custom microservices development and integration of existing opensource solutions.

Role and Responsibilities

• Understand the business and functional needs of the client;

• Gather/ellaborate functional and technical requirements;

• Define functional and technical specifications (architecture) fulfilling the requirements;

• Coordinate and validate the establishment and development of the architecture;

• Rapidly engage with customer department staff, clients/users and professional colleagues, and develop a reputation for good judgement and effectiveness in a variety of interpersonal cultures;

• Interact and communicate with c-level executives, consortium partners, different stakeholders in a program. Often ‘political’ environment ;

• Able to convince a customer of a particular solution ;

• Be pragmatic and able to negotiate ;

• Take an active part, in the definition of strategies based around Enterprise Architecture to drive business improvement, innovation, and/or make more effective use of IT;

• Build or identify/select a solution in line with customer needs.

• Feel comfortable with leading multi-specialist projects, building further on your market, business and technical overview and practical experience

• Able to coach a team of senior developers.

• Have a strong team spirit

 Required Skills and Experience:

• Take ownership for the strategy and methods used in implementing an architecture ;

• Integrate opensource products and solutions in the architecture like API Gateway (Spring Cloud), API Management, Microservices (Spring Boot), Containers (Kubernetes), Message Broker (Kafka);

• Lead all aspects of design activities for your assigned part of the architecture ;

• Assure specification and design work to assist in the development of Service Level Agreements and any associated service guarantees;

• Architecture Methodology & Modelling: TOGAF, Archimate, UML, BPMN

• Agile frameworks, Devops & tools usage: SAFe/ scrum, Atlassian suite, Open source devops;

• Take into account all security aspects in the design: Authentication, Autorisation, Auditing, Confidentiality, IAM

Nice to have:

• experience with Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud implementation with products of the market (especially OVH)

What’s in it for you? 

• Wellbeing programs & work-life balance - integration and passion-sharing events;

• Private medical and dental care;

• Benefits platform – shopping, cinema, sport etc.;

• Co-funding of sport activities, e.g. Multisport & OK system cards, b-active program;

• Courses and certifications e.g. Google Cloud, AWS, ITIL;

• Conferences and Expert Communities;

• Gift packages for special occasions: Easter, Christmas, Children’s Day;

• Appreciation for seniority: additional days off, Atos Jubilee gifts;

• Charity and eco initiatives,

• Hybrid model of work (depends on your place of residence; max 2 times/month from our office) 

What happens next?

• Quick conversation with HR;

• Interview with a Manager/IT expert/project representative;

• Feedback (1-5 business days after the interview).