- Professional
- Office in Zurich
Job Title: System Architect
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Hybrid (3 days office)
Main Responsibilities
- Responsible for maintaining information about Configuration Items (CIs) required to deliver an IT service, including their relationships.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to shape the business vision/architecture, and to establish high-level solution intent (incl. blueprints, initial roadmap, information models, documentation of requirements and dependencies).
- Responsible for the architectural design within a defined “scope” (e.g., domain).
- Define systems and their interfaces.
- Draft business and technical architecture for the IT system in support of new business features and capabilities (incl. technical vision, blueprint, and technical design support).
- Support adherence to appropriate architecture standards and ensure availability of the new system architecture for design and implementation teams.
- Support the definition of NFRs (non-functional requirements) and ensure they are implemented accordingly.
- Responsible for life cycle management of the architecture and the quality of the architecture of the system.
- Identify risks regarding the deviation of standards and innovations and collaborate with discipline architects to address them.
- Work with portfolio and ART architects, customers and suppliers to align on shared architectural directions.
- Work with suppliers, making sure that architectural characteristics for supplier-delivered capabilities are understood and aligning with the architectural integration of these concerns.
Required skills and experience:
- Independent, efficient, proactive and meticulous ways of working.
- High attention to quality management, operational level IT security and risk management.
- Able to work under pressure and manage a portfolio of risks.
- Strong project management certification/skills (schedule, planning, and activity management).
- Very well acquainted with service design and software development principles, standards, software solution and service design.
- Architecture foundation/knowledge; good knowledge of methods and new ways of working (Agile, DevOps & Continuous Integration, etc.), modeling, principles and standards, and frameworks.
- Good knowledge of application integration architecture, technologies and patterns and security architecture (standards and frameworks).
- Good understanding and experience in business architecture, analysis and requirements engineering.
- Relevant higher education and professional background.