The Solution Architect will engage with internal and external stakeholders to define, develop and maintain innovative and competitive architectures for oursolutions and products.
Responsibilities
- Define the functional architecture and actively participate in the design of the solution to best deliver expected customer requirements
- Support and contribute to the definition of the solution for each specific commercial opportunity (Pre-Sales) to ensure reuse of the existing
- Participate to the review of technical architecture with the Development team ensuring the consistency of the solution from functional architecture pointof view
- Establish the documentation of the functional architecture allowing implementation of the solution in line with business expectation
- Conduct architectural evaluations; design, analyse alternatives vs fit-for-purpose for SICPA; Act as a thought leader on emerging technologiescontributing to the evolution of our solution and product portfolio
- Ensure consistency and best practice within the architecture community
Requirements
- Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related technical discipline, with a strong business and technical vision
- Proven hand-on experience in the software industry (development/ architecture/ languages/ security/ IT/ Cloud/ DevOps…) in a multidisciplinary teamand/or environment
- Experience of product and project management in a fast paced environment
- Track record in managing the whole lifecycle of a product/solution and delivering highly scalable and robust product/solution
- Exceptional customer relationship and stakeholder management skills including the ability to synthetize and vulgarize complex problems, coordinateacross departments with strong consensus building and moderation skills
- Ability to collect and analyse information in a structured manner and in a broad view approach
- Strong process and user orientation with a flexible mindset and a proactive can-do attitude
- Working knowledge of agile and scrum methodologies
- Fluent in English mandatory; French is a plus