Technology Architect Advisor

Job Description

The Technology Architecture team plays a key role in this major evolution. Responsible for ensuring that its technological strategy meets the challenges of CIB, the Technology Architecture team operates in this dynamic, international, bilingual English-French environment. Acting at several levels:

• Advice at the development team level
• Advice at the production team level
• Instruction of governance processes
• Definition of strategies around technical subjects such as API, BI, HTML5, ML, OCR, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, DevOps, Opensource, Blockchain…
• Technology watch
• Evangelization and Craftsmanship of best practices
• Validation of technologies and tools
• Exchanges with FinTech's and other external partners

Main Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the Technology Architecture reviews as below:
• Inter-application and intra-application component dependencies;
• Communication protocols and security standards;
• Segmentation and/or micro-segmentation of application layers;
• Awareness of Cloud Solutions, KaaS, IaaS, PaaS hosting solutions and offering and alignment according with the application requirements;
• Advice and guidance on technology solutions to be adopted by applications;
• Critical thinking to challenge technical designs;
• Ensure compliance with all dimensions like: Continuity, Security, Confidentiality, Traceability
• Technology Domain Qualification:
• Identify the organization needs and requirements;
• Identify and assess alternative solutions;
• Competitive Intelligence in product selection among different providers and identify key differentiator factors;
• Propose, justify and present product selection assessments

Technical skills:

• Mature Architect mindset
• Ability to understand the scope and purpose of an application and propose/guide the team to comply with the adequate principles, guidelines and patterns
• Abstract and Analytical Thinking in order to assess if a technical design meets the organization standards
• Enterprise Framework knowledge like TOGAF and/or Zachman
• Experience in Architecture Modelling and representation using UML or any other Modeling Framework
• Knowledge about Enterprise Design Patterns like SOA, EDA, DDD, Micro-Services
• Ability to synthesize, organize and present reports to Management
• English (read, spoken, written) - Expert
• French (nice to have) - Practice

Soft skills:

• Autonomous, organized and delivery-focused with attention to detail
• Proactive taking own initiative to mitigate risk, and prevent issues arising;
• Great communication skills
• Ability to create vision in others
• Process and Results Oriented
• Multi-cultural and multi-location Experience
• Team Player