Chapter Lead – Architect Chapter

Company Description

Sopra Steria offers tailored, end-to-end corporate technology and software solutions to help clients make bold choices and deliver results. Successfully so! With more than 56.000 colleagues in 30 countries, we rank as Europe’s leading digital solutions provider. Some of the most successful companies in Europe rely on our technology due to our commitment to innovation, collaboration, and value in business development.

The world is how we shape it. Let’s shape it together.

Job Description

As a Chapter Lead for the Architect Chapter, you will lead and manage a team of architects responsible for middleware squads delivering advanced IT services. You will play a critical role in defining and implementing architecture strategies, aligning them with organizational objectives, and ensuring middleware solutions meet high-quality standards for scalability, availability, performance, and security. 

• Location: Luxembourg
• Contract hours: 40 hour workweek
• Contract type: Permanent / Freelance contract 
• Languages: Fluency in English (written and spoken) is required; proficiency in any other European language is a plus.
• EU citizenship

Key Responsibilities: 

1. Leadership and Team Development: 

• Lead, inspire, and mentor a team of architects, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. 

• Provide strategic guidance to ensure alignment between architecture solutions and the organization’s goals. 

• Support architects in their professional development and career growth, ensuring skills match current and future Cosmos challenges. 

2. Middleware Architecture Management: 

• Oversee the design and development of middleware solutions to ensure they meet functional, technical, and security requirements. 

• Define and enforce architectural standards, best practices, and governance frameworks for middleware technologies. 

• Work closely with middleware squads to ensure that architectural designs are properly implemented and maintained. 

3. Collaboration and Cross-Functional Coordination: 

• Collaborate with other chapter leads, product owners, and squad members to align architecture objectives with overall project goals. 

• Coordinate with stakeholders, including DIGIT management and external teams, to address dependencies and ensure alignment with business needs. 

• Facilitate knowledge sharing and communication between middleware architects and other technical teams. 

4. Continuous Improvement: 

• Drive initiatives to optimize middleware architecture for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. 

• Identify and implement emerging technologies and methodologies to enhance middleware services and capabilities. 

• Conduct regular architecture reviews to identify gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement. 

5. Stakeholder Engagement: 

• Serve as the primary point of contact for middleware architecture-related queries and decisions. 

• Provide regular updates to senior management and stakeholders on architecture strategies, progress, and challenges. 

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure middleware solutions align with consumer needs and expectations. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field. 

• Extensive experience (min 7 years) in IT architecture, with a focus on middleware solutions. 

• Proven leadership experience, with the ability to manage, mentor, and develop technical teams. 

• Strong expertise in middleware technologies such as WebLogic, API Gateway, and containerization platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker). 

• Solid understanding of Agile and SAFe methodologies and their application in architecture design and development. 

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a focus on delivering practical and innovative solutions. 

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders effectively. 

Additional Information

Our employees are known for making bold choices and delivering results. Work among high-level professionals at the forefront of corporate software solutions and innovation at Europe’s Leading Digital Service Provider.

We offer a generous employee benefits package that includes:

• Access to our Sopra Steria training and personal development academy
• A company car lease or mobility budget
• A company laptop and new iPhone
• Private health insurance coverage
• Meal vouchers
• Social security and pension plan
• A competitive salary
• 26 holiday days

People are the cornerstone of our success. That’s why we aspire to be bolder together. Our goal is to build high-functioning teams and healthy team environments that inspire and help each other to deliver excellence for each of our customers. 

Excited about this job opportunity? Ready to shape the world with us? Great! We are looking forward to your application! 

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Sopra Steria is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, ancestry, nationality, color, family or medical leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, gender (including pregnancy), sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. We foster a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.