Solutions Architect

Solution Architect – Cloud Architecture

Position Purpose

As a member of the IS Architecture team, you will be in charge of helping projects define their Solution Architecture while migrating the Information System of Wealth Management into BNPP group Cloud platform. You will review their proposals with Enterprise Architects as well as Engineering / Production teams and Security teams to ensure that solutions proposed are aligned and compliant with BNPP policies and BNPP Cloud offering.

You will be assigned to a fixed set of IT Divisions / Departments (2 or 3) for which you will manage the solutioning for Cloud migration and BAU evolutions of the applications under their management. In addition, you may be assigned to specific transversal projects for which you will do the solutioning end-to-end.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Maintain the Division / Department architecture reference documentation all along the changes brought by projects :

o IT system diagrams (Division level, or per sub-block)

o Application referential (with the help of Application Owners)

o Division level principles and related non-conformities and remediation plans

o Obsolescence KPIs

o Supporting the Project Manager / Business Analysts during solution ideation, design, and implementation

o Collaborating with application teams and Business Analysts / Tech leads of impacted applications to design the solution

o Ensuring the alignment of projects with our architecture principles and IT standards

o Ensuring the solution is optimized for running on our IBM Private Cloud

o Leading the build of a consistent architecture documentation

o Presenting his projects in architecture validation committee

o Being the reference point on a set of applications for support / evolution activities

o Supporting the architecture process till the go-live

o Bringing Cloud and architecture awareness to application teams

o Project managers / Business analyst of major transversal projects he / she is assigned to

o Tech leads / Developers, to understand the architecture of the applications / screens and analyze potential issues

o Application owner, to update the referential information on applications

o Engineering and Production team, to check the availability / compatibility with infrastructure / Cloud services

o Enterprise Architects, to facilitate the review and validation process.

o Application referential

o IT architecture diagrams and documents

o Application non-conformities and remediation plans

o Architecture principles, checklist, guidelines

Contributing Responsibilities

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Mandatory

Experience on designing and developing Cloud-native solutions

Experience on Cloud migration, integration patterns, high availability patterns, etc. (e.g. REST APIs, Container platforms, Event-driven architecture, etc)

Broad technical knowledge and experience across application, development frameworks and technologies

Experience with Java / Spring / Angular, Oracle / PostgreSQL DB, Linux, API, Kafka etc.

Functional / Business knowledge (of his current / past companies), ideally on core banking or portfolio management systems. Interest in Financial & Banking industry

Experience working on a project or in an architecture team covering a large ecosystem of applications (30+)

Experience in modeling activities (application maps, software design models, data modeling, infrastructure diagrams, etc.)

Strong analysis skills with problem solving attitude

Ability to communicate effectively in written documents and oral presentations, explaining concepts clearly to audiences at various levels of technical knowledge

Effective leadership, planning and organization skills

Plus

Experience of Enterprise Architecture discipline, processes, concepts, and best practices

Experience in Wealth Management, or Financial and Banking Industry

Knowledge of a Wealth Management Core Banking System such as Temenos Transact, ERI Olympic or Avaloq

SCRUM / Agile experience

Experience running Request for Proposal and assessing solutions

Specific Qualifications

(if required)

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering with minimum 10 years of experience

Experience Level

At least 10 years

Other / Specific Qualifications

(if required)