Job Openings Transversal Solution Architect (TSA)

About the job Transversal Solution Architect (TSA)

Your main missions:

  • Define the cross-functional architecture of the IT transformation initiatives in collaboration with product teams and other architects:
    • Lead architecture definition workshops (gather business needs and processes)
    • Identify data sources and interfaces
    • Identify macro-impacts on existing products and products to be developed
    • Promote innovation opportunities provided by technological breakthroughs and the digitalization of the company
    • Define the target architecture and the steps to achieve it
    • Formalize the chosen architecture within the architecture repository
    • Collaborate with Enterprise Architects and Solution Architects to define IT transformation plans and manage the portfolio of studies
    • Participate in defining the enterprise business information models and their application in projects
  • Contribute to the architecture community :
    • Build up the mapping repository
    • Continuously improve architecture principles and guidelines
    • Define and participate in the implementation of tools to industrialize architecture activities
    • Participate in architecture governance bodies and aid in project decision- making with an architectural perspective
  • Deliverables:
    • Architecture guidelines
    • General Architecture Specification within the scope of projects
    • Updated application mapping

Our teams on a daily basis:

  • Agile ceremonies within the architecture squad to which you will be functionally attached
  • Peer meetings to share best practices and/or challenges on ongoing studies in a supportive manner
  • Team meetings within your chapter
  • In an agile organizational context, you will collaborate with different projects, IT, and/or business teams that will need your expertise. Depending on the studies, you may interact with our partners in Renault and/or our subsidiaries, especially internationally.

Your Profile

  • You hold a Masters degree with a specialization in IT and have more than 10 years of experience in architecture.
  • You have dual expertise/experience in Business and IT, ideally in the industry (engineering, manufacturing, logistics, etc.)
  • You have experience in international environments and matrix organizations.

Your Skills and Knowledge

  • Knowledge of all components of Enterprise Architecture
  • Comprehensive vision of an IT system and architecture trends, urbanization constraints, operations, and security
  • Good understanding of issues related to Cloud, Data, and interoperability
  • Proficiency in architecture modeling techniques
  • Ability to understand both long-term and short-term perspectives of transformations
  • Strong ability to communicate, explain, and educate choices beyond technologies
  • Pragmatic approach, not being "technology for technology" oriented
  • Ability to work in an agile mode
  • Proven ability to work as part of a team
  • Fluent in English and French
  • You are attentive and ready to challenge us daily with your experience and perspective.

Other Expected Skills for this Position

  • Agile Architecture, Agile Fundamentals, Architecture Governance, Architecture Principles, Cloud Integrations, Communication, Computer System Architecture, Enterprise Architects, Functional Architecture, Modeling Software, Reference Data, Scalable Architectures, Teamwork, Urbanization.