Architecte Solution

Purpose

• He/she leads the IT Demand committee and communicates decisions towards Finance community
• She/He promotes rationalization, standardization and Cost Reduction whenever it is possible
• She/He supports and recommends major IS/IT evolutions in accordance with customer needs, IS/IT technological trends.
• She/He drives Solution Architecture

Areas of responsibility

• Strategy & Design
• Support the IS/IT strategy.
• Support the rationalization and the standardization of the Function solutions
• Defend the reduction of the solutions delivering same features
• Promote the core model and the digital convergence
• Ensure market watch
• Contribute to group policies (norms, standards, security) creation.
• Development & Delivery
• Handle diverse requests from applications and infrastructure and analyze them in detail.
• Define the architecture of solutions considering functionalities, technical options, service standards, processes, physical and logical security, user experience, operational model, cost, market trends, and Group’ current information system.
• Contribute to the execution of solutions as a technical reference, participate in the change management process (CAB: Change Advisory Board), and assist in transition from project mode to operational status.
• Ensure that the solutions maintain their technical reliability as time progresses, and share it with different experts within the IT department.
• Contribute the applications lifecycle.
• Globally report the result of these activities through indicators, monthly reports, presentations.
• Solution architecture
• Drive the IT Demand process
• Drive the Architecture committee including other technologic Architects
• Support rationalization and standardization
• Define the architecture of solutions considering functionalities, technical options, service standards, processes, physical and logical security, user experience, operational model, cost, market trends, and current information system.
• Contributes the change management process (CAB: Change Advisory Board), and assist in transition from project mode to operational status.
• Makes sure the documentation of existing solutions.
• Drive the architecture repository up to date.
• Continuous Improvement
• Initiate activities to operate and seek continuous improvements to services and IT environment that meet current and anticipated business requirements and objectives.
• Ensure the appropriate level of skills through training program, communication on best practices, processes, solutions and standards.
• Promote transparent and effective communication within IS Department and with the business.
• Launch IS/IT initiatives enabling business operational excellence.
• Ensure and contribute to information sharing by its associates.

• processes and ToolsProc
• Drive the architecture processes
• Support of the new processes and governance enabling the new organization.
• Drive the definition and the setup of some IS standard tools : Service Catalog, Application Documentation Directory (ADR), ITAM, ITSM
• Contribute to the activities and services catalogs definition and evolution
• Participate to the harmonization of activities and services specially through the tool from the IS (Service catalog, ADR, ITSM, ITAM tools)

Position sizing

• ransversal management
• Play a pivotal role within the Quality and Performance team of IT department.
• Definition of global solutions for the group.
• 1500 PCs, 20 sites, 15 factories, 2 main data centers, Cloud, 200+ applications.
• Introduce Architecture standards that align with industry best practices and applicable within the Group's environment.
• Compose design documents, supporting operational teams in crafting technical migration and implementation documents, along with technical documentation.
• Write architecture analysis documents.
• Ensure service commitments are met during request processing.
• Promote ERP and D&D CoE

Required skills and qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience as an IS/IT architect.
• General knowledge of IS/IT infrastructures (data centers, cloud, workstations, security, identity, network, telecom, collaboration, databases, etc.).
• Proficiency in standard market architectures.
• Experience in an international, multicultural, and multi-site context.
• Fluent in French and English (100% of documents are written in English).
• Proactive, solution-oriented, and pragmatic.
• Curiosity and innovation.
• Autonomy and initiative.
•  Ability to simplify technical concepts.
•  Ability to have a high-level and low-level vision and adapt the discourse according to different stakeholders (from experts to CIO).
•  Knowledge and interest in the industrial sector.