Digital Solutions Architect

Anotech; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Anotech Energy seeks a Digital Solutions Architect to lead end-to-end architecture and governance of smart-city digital solutions delivered on Platform. You translate business outcomes into actionable blueprints and ensure alignment with reference architectures, cloud-agnostic standards, and security/compliance requirements.

You will guide design reviews, drive implementation assurance, and support scalable patterns for repeatable onboarding and deployment across multiple vendors and services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Cybersecurity.
• 10+ years in solution/enterprise architecture for large-scale digital platforms.
• Experience delivering cloud and hybrid solutions with Kubernetes, APIs, identity, and observability.
• Familiarity with TOGAF/ADM or similar architecture frameworks and agile delivery at scale.
• Background working with SIs/vendors under RFP/contracted delivery and acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end architecture and governance of smart-city digital solutions.
• Ensure designs align to Platform reference architectures and security/compliance standards.
• Guide delivery through design reviews, implementation assurance, and operational readiness.
• Promote scalable, reusable patterns for repeatable onboarding and deployment.

Skills

End-to-end architecture

Governance & design boards

Stakeholder management

Non-functional requirements (NFRs)

Agile delivery at scale

Multi-vendor governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT

Master's degree preferred

Tools

ArchiMate

Sparx EA

Visio

Draw.io

Job description

The Digital Solutions Architect leads the end-to-end architecture and governance of smart-city digital solutions delivered on Platform. The role ensures that solution designs from multiple vendors align to Platform's reference architectures, cloud-agnostic standards, security/compliance requirements, and platform service catalog. The architect translates business outcomes into actionable solution blueprints, ensures integration with Platform's shared services (identity, observability, data, APIs), and guides delivery through design reviews, implementation assurance, and operational readiness. The role supports scalable, reusable patterns for repeatable onboarding and deployment.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science Information Technology, Cybersecurity, a Master's degree is highly preferred.
• 10+ years in solution/enterprise architecture for large-scale digital platforms (smart city, government, telco, or critical infrastructure preferred).
• Experience delivering cloud and hybrid solutions with Kubernetes, APIs, identity, and observability.
• Proven governance involvement (Design Authority, architecture boards, standards and exception processes).
• Background working with SIs/vendors under RFP/contracted delivery and acceptance criteria.
• Familiarity with TOGAF/ADM or similar architecture frameworks and agile delivery at scale.

Skills & Abilities:

• Strong end-to-end solution architecture skills across apps, data, integration, security, and operations.
• Ability to govern multi-vendor delivery and drive alignment to standards without slowing execution.
• Excellent stakeholder management: translate between business, engineering, security, and operations.
• Proven ability to define NFRs (availability, performance, resiliency, scalability, observability).
• Structured documentation and decision-making (ADRs, reference architectures, patterns, roadmaps).

Tools:

• Architecture modeling: ArchiMate / Sparx EA / Visio / Draw.io