Functional/Solution Architect

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For more than 15 years, we have been advising companies and administrations and assisting them in the implementation of their transformation projects all around the world.

To do this, we rely on both technological leverage and the strength of our DNA based on collective intelligence, agility and entrepreneurial spirit.

With a presence on five continents and more than 4,500 employees, our goal is to exceed €1 billion in sales by 2024. Innovation is at the heart of our development and we are involved in areas related to the technological changes of large groups, such as Big Data, IoT, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.

Our values & playing fields :

Collective intelligence
Agility
Entrepreneurship /Intrapreneurship
Promoting diversity/mix (Support to the Women@Numeric Foundation...)
Commitment (employees, partners, schools, associations...)
Respect for people and quality of life at work
Open-mindedness and inclusiveness

Let's build Talan's future together.

To increase its competitiveness and pursue its development in the best conditions, team significantly invests in its information system.

In order to reinforce its teams, the SPaaS IS department of team is currently looking for a Technical Architect to be involved in:

· Project implementation, coordination and support

· Application Enhancements

· Production functional support

· Bug fixing

The service shall be carried out within the teams of the SPAAS IS department, delivering IS solutions to the different operational teams of the SPAAS business platform.

The Technical Architect outlines solution architecture descriptions across domains, functions, and business domains, then monitors and governs their implementation in projects. For this the Technical Architect works in a close tandem with Enterprise Architecture and Project Manager(s).

You act as part of a project team translating business and IT requirements into solution architecture designs for large or medium scale systems using your knowledge of technologies and integrating existing products and new developments. As such you are expected to:

• Define the vision on information architecture and data governance within the company;
• Take ownership of non-functional requirements specification;
• Review and approve functional and non-functional requirement specifications;
• Design optimal solution architectures that support the business and help realize the target architecture;
• Acting as a coach towards the project team(s);
• Responsible for the overall quality of the solutions (implementation and/or customization);

Crafting the right architecture to solve the problem at hand is only part of architects' responsibilities. The architect must also:

• Define, document, and communicate it.
• Share your knowledge of the current solutions, technologies and methodologies with your colleagues by participating to communities of practices.
• Protect (own) the solution architecture and protect its integrity and consistency. Make sure everyone is using it, and using it correctly.
• Make sure stakeholders and management understand it (to the detail necessary).
• Make sure that the architecture is not only the right one for operations, but also for deployment and long term maintenance.
• You must have experience as solution architect with a wide variety of technologies which must include Azure (MicroServices) and AWS (Data)

· You have minimum 10 years of experience in the IT sector including 5 years in IT solutions design on complex projects;

· In-depth experience in the field of Software Development Projects, Digital Transformation or Data Transformation is an additional major asset

· Leading meetings with various stakeholders from various business with different interests

· Application Life Cycle Management: functional design, functional testing, release, hotfixes, …

· You are familiar with Agile organization and related rituals and Project Management

· Organization and time management skills to keep projects on track and within budget.

Technical skills

Multi-technology architectures

Azure, AWS, …

Application Life Cycle Management :ITIL

Agile organization and related rituals :Agile, Spotify, Azure DevOps,…

Data analysis skills

Dashboarding and reporting skills :MS PPT / Excel

Complex data visualization

Programming and coding skills : Python, C#, java,…