BUSINESS ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

Entreprise Confidentielle; Paris; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 100 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A financial services company is seeking an Enterprise Architect in Paris to lead technology transformation and architectural discussions. This key role involves collaborating with Business and IT on product roadmaps, advising senior management on architectural choices, and ensuring cohesive operations across systems. The ideal candidate has strong IT system design experience, strategic thinking abilities, and fluency in English. Note that no home office is allowed during the trial period of eight months.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding in the design and implementation of complex IT systems.
• Experience with consultancy or systems integrators in financial services.
• Ability to estimate business, risk, and financial impacts of architecture choices.

Responsabilités

• Assist Business and IT in designing product & technology roadmaps.
• Advise management on key initiatives and guide architectural strategies.
• Drive architecture discussions and facilitate design workshops.
• Maintain architecture patterns and strategies in global initiatives.

Connaissances

Strategic thinking

Problem-solving skills

Understanding of modern architecture

Fluent in English

Description du poste

Our client is in the financial services sector industry.

Job Summary

We invite you to join our team as an Enterprise Architect and become a key driver of integration, innovation and efficiency within our organization.

As a member of the Architecture team, the Enterprise Architect is accountable for proactively leading technology transformation activities and driving targeted business outcomes. His / Her main duties include providing guidance to the organization in an increasingly complex technological environment, facilitating and leading architectural & design discussions, aligning stakeholders around product-oriented solutions aligned with our agile operating model, as well as overseeing the overall coherence and integrity of Company’s global system & technology landscape.

Key responsibilities

• Assist Business and IT to think and design product & technology roadmaps.
• Advise senior management on key initiatives and help guide business-critical architectural choices & strategies.
• Facilitate inter-program and inter-project issues.
• Help shape user-centric solutions, with a product-driven mindset.
• Drive & facilitate architecture discussions, design workshops, initiate solution design artifacts etc. to build alignment & clarity with stakeholders around clearly defined architectural options.
• Define & implement strategies to build a coherent system, technology & data architecture across our global organization.
• You will play a vital role in ensuring that our system landscape operates cohesively.
• Define and maintain architecture patterns, strategies, accelerators and best practices working with the rest of the architecture team and apply them to our various initiatives and architectural challenges.
• Update business architecture data repository and cartography of our global system landscape.
• Participate in the animation and organisation of the architecture chapter ceremonies (architecture committees, round tables, crew catch‑up sessions…).
• Promote the architecture team activities throughout the organisation.
• Build a network of contacts within crews, squads and stakeholders to help the chapter keep up to date and connected with various initiatives, challenges, projects being discussed throughout the organisation and be able to intervene and provide assistance as necessary.

Profile required

• Strong understanding in the design, architecture and/or implementation of complex IT systems, gained within a consultancy, systems integrator, financial services or similar organization, through the experience of a range of systems delivery programs and projects.

Required experience & competencies

• Strong strategic thinking and problem‑solving skills; ability to estimate business, risk and financial impacts of architecture choices and orientations.
• Strong knowledge/understanding of modern architecture, development, and methodology.
• Fluent in English.

Location: Paris (center)

Important to be located in Paris, or close to Paris, or to be relocated in Paris.

No home office during the trial period (4 months + 4 months).

Seniority level

Not Applicable

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Insurance