Enterprise Architect - Strasbourg, France - Centum Recruitment International Limited

Description

Enterprise Architect

I am seeking an Enterprise Architect to join an International organisation based in Strasbourg on a long term contract assignment. This is a hybrid working model with on-site and off-site working.

Tasks and Responsibilities of the Enterprise Architect

• Minimum 10 years of experience in the defined area of expertise
• Lead the design, development, implementation and maintenance of enterprise architecture with support from the Contracting Authority's Architecture Review Board (ARB);
• Work with developers, product managers, business analysts, subject matter experts and the Lot 2 Contractor(s) to define solutions and modules with required features and functionality;
• Review the architecture of existing systems, design of component architecture and building blocks; recommend and participate in the development of architecture blueprints for specific Systems;
• Analyse the need for integration of different information Systems and ensure interoperability;
• Coordinate the design of the technical architectures and provide guidance on the design and implementation of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Master
• Data Management (MDM) or other architecture methods;
• Understands and apply security policy, measures, current standards, practices, and technology;
• Advise and recommend the ARB on the enterprise architecture strategies, processes and methodologies, and assist in aligning business and enterprise initiatives with the enterprise architecture;
• Work towards evolving the enterprise architecture by implementing the best practices, lessons learned and constantly updating the technical system architecture requirements based on changing technologies, and knowledge related to recent, current and up-coming vendor products and solutions.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor Degree
• Extensive knowledge and experience of architecture frameworks and methods and their practical implementation, working in an architecture role preferably within large companies, consultancy, or an enterprise software vendor;
• Experience of working with a range of stakeholders to translate business and non-functional requirements into technology solutions;
• In depth knowledge of interoperability frameworks, patterns and technologies;
• Experience of devising architecture strategy to support future business goals;
• Experience of defining roadmaps, current/future state models and maintaining architecture documentation;
• Demonstrating extensive knowledge of enterprise systems design and operation in multi-national multi-platform environments;
• Broad exposure/experience across service oriented systems design, contemporary web channel solutions, large scale distributed systems design and implementation;
• Experience of on premise, virtualization and cloud-based Infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS);
• Experience of working in an agile software development environment;
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms;
• Knowledge of security best practices and tools;