Enterprise Architect

For our department IT Architecture within General Services, we are looking for a (an):

Enterprise Architect

Purpose

Luxair is on a journey to re-invent and re-architect its IT application landscape, and we are looking for someone to join the Architecture Team.

As part of the Architecture Team, your mission is to help guide, promote, and accelerate our digital transition and improve the way we manage and exchange data across all areas of our business.

You come from a technical background, having worked as a developer and since graduated into a solution design or architecture role. You have worked on complex projects and are adept at understanding the "big picture" but not afraid to dig into the detail. As an IT polymath, you welcome the chance to work in a variety business areas on a variety topics, and apply your skills across multiple architectural and design domains: requirements, data, applications, and integrations.

While your technical abilities are paramount, you are an all-rounder and also possess the soft skills that are necessary for success: business acumen, great communication skills, and a can-do attitude.

Does this sound like you? Are you looking for your next challenge? If so, please contact us to discover how you can become a key player in our digital transformation.

Main duties:

• Take ownership/responsibility for the design of major, cross-domain end-to-end solutions and their deliverables, and provide technical leadership to analysts and developers

• Analyse and model systems, applications and data, and produce architecture roadmaps, blueprints, and solution designs/specifications (targeted as needed for business users and/or technical teams)
• Carry out in-depth analysis to guarantee that the recommended solutions and technologies match the needs and architectural principles of Luxair
• Act as a liaison between key business stakeholders and technical teams. Work closely with other team members (architects, product owners, developers and business analysts) to ensure requirements and solutions are fully understood and challenged, in order to produce quality high level designs
• Where necessary resolve conflicting interests and requirements in order to establish a consensus
• Ensure that design and architectural principles, standards and best practices are adhered to across the organisation; highlight gaps and risks to senior management
• Take an active role in the review of RfPs with external suppliers; show conviction and logical reasoning when making recommendations
• Stay abreast of technology trends and identify ways to utilise them effectively
• Contribute to the development of Luxair's architecture practice: strategies, reference models, design patterns, and technical assurance capabilities.

Required profile:

Minimum required criteria:

• Master's Degree in software engineering, engineering, or equivalent qualifications and experience
  
• Demonstrated experience in complex transformation programmes, and designing and delivering enterprise scale IT systems. Strong data and integration skills
• Experience in a similar position as an architect or technical lead with solid understanding of modern technologies and principles
• Experienced across the entire business and IT continuum, and all phases of the software life-cycle including: architecture, requirements & design specifications, integration, migration, data modelling and databases, application design, and testing
• Proficient in architectural and design methodologies such as TOGAF, Microservices, Event Driven, Agile/Waterfall, Data Modelling, UML, ArchiMate
• Able to analyse detailed business and functional issues, and translate them into end-to-end technical solutions without losing sight of the wider strategic directions
• Possess a strong technical background, an organised and logical mind, and can articulate the decisions and rationale behind a chosen design path
• A self-starter, versatile, accurate, detail oriented, and "hands-on" approach
• Able to produce clear and concise documentation
• Excellent oral and written communication/interpersonal skills in English, knowledge of French or German are appreciated.

Desired or to be acquired criteria:

• TOGAF certification
• Broad technical skillset and knowledge, such as
  -AWS or Azure cloud
  -SQL/NoSQL Databases, Data Warehouses, ETL, Kafka, REST APIs, SOA
  -IT Security, SSO, OAuth2
• Be able to work in a team, independently, or autonomously on long tasks
• Eager to learn, understand, and apply new technologies
• Demonstrate a good sense of urgency and flexibility
• Taste for details and precision.

The ideal candidate:

• Use Sparx Enterprise Architect / ArchiMate as a framework
• Hands on experience with several of the following technologies: SQL, XML, Unix, Oracle, MySql, PostgreSQL, MongoDB/DynamoDB, ESB, Docker, JavaScript, Java, C, Git, CI/CD, Angular, React, ReactNative, SSO, OAuth2.