Responsibilities
The Solution Architect brings the overall vision and consistency of transformation to a project or program. Solution Architect ensures the coherence of the project's choices with the Group's architectural choices. In the phase of opportunity and framing, he/she carries out the required architectural analysis, with an objective to facilitate decision-making by the governing bodies. The architect delivers an architectural file containing all the principles and descriptions of targets and trajectories to preside over the next phases of the project. During the execution phase, the architect accompanies the project actors, being the guarantor of the good decisions taken. He/she also maintains a long-term vision of the consistent transformation on business & IT plans. He/she can lead the process of reframing parts of the project. He can rely on specialized architects (business, data, functional, application, technical) if needed.
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As an architect, you’ll be involved on one or more projects concerning architecture management.
In coordination with Paris teams, you’ll take part in KEAR update:
- Maintain the as-is cartography (all architecture views: functional, applicative and technical)
- Consolidate the target/reference cartography and enterprise data model.
- Help define the possible solutions taking into account the business requirement, assess the impacts and choose the most appropriate solution.
- Validate and then ensure the validation of all architecture documents (all views) by Paris teams and those involved in the project.
- Be the link between developer team, application managers and the users / sponsor.
- Anticipate and accompany changes (impact assessment, communication and training of users, start-up, deployment).
- Be able to propose improvements to legacy applications.
- Be part of the communication to the users, identify or coordinates the action plan.
- Optional: French
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