Fincons Group is an IT business consulting company that has been designing the digital future of leading companies on international markets for 40 years. Fincons Group built its reputation on foreseeing and interpreting new business models and the rapid evolution of IT systems by building a complete range of services: from research and consulting to design and development, from system integration of leading vendor software solutions right up to application management, supporting clients step by step along their digital transformation journey. Fincons is a multinational with over 2,600 people and several offices worldwide (in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Belgium and the USA), but above all a Family Company where the founders play a strategic role with commitment and passion, grounding the company in the same principles of a united and caring family.
We firmly believe in the value of cooperation and in the contribution that every idea and intuition can bring. We believe that everyones effort can make a difference. Transforming knowledge into a strategic resource is our company mission, and we pursue it with the help of our most strategic asset: our people.
Fincons is looking for an Enterprise Architect
With minimum 10 years experience in the field, of which 5 in IT Architecture.
Nature of the tasks
Designs and implements scalable, secure, and cost-effective architectures for systems, components and/or services (e.g. SOA, microservices, event-driven, serverless, API-first), COTS software products.
Evaluates and selects appropriate services and technologies to meet business needs.
Provides guidance on best practices, including security, performance, and cost management.
Collaborates with DevSecOps teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of solutions.
Continuously monitors and optimizes infrastructure for performance and reliability.
Follows up and coordinates all efforts on design, implementation, and operations of the services used.
Ensures compliance with necessary requirements for data sovereignty, security, cloud nativeness, etc.
Identifies and proposes mitigation actions to avoid vendor lock-in situations in the future.
Ensures technical aspects of the design, implementation, and operations are aligned with the principles, requirements, and expectations.
Contribute to technical design and/or validate technical design of data management solutions as proposed by the external contractor.
Reports on the status, risks, and mitigation actions in this respect.
Investigates and recommends solutions, including cost benefit analyses, assessment of implementation time.
Understands, applies and suggests improvements of the organization''s methodology, security policies, tools, best practices, etc.
Encourages reuse or buy over build.
Commits to ensuring that the system design meets requirements, in particular non-functional requirements (volume, scalability, confidentiality, integrity, availability).
Ensures compliance with Corporate and organization''s reference architecture.
Monitors projects from technical point of view to ensure that the implementation of systems, components and/or services follows organization''s roadmap and matches ICS2-SSA requirements
Responsible of architecture / technical JIRA tickets (changes/ problem, impact assessments)
Provides technology and architectural guidance for SSA design, implementation and necessary documentation.
Provides technical support to FAT, SAT, BAT and testing issues for the technical topics.
Leads active support for all integration topics with SSA COTS
Ensures that IT design delivers business /technical requirements and non-functional requirements (volume, scalability, stability, confidentiality, security, integrity, availability, usability, within an appropriate data governance.
Analyses the integration of different ICS2-related systems and ensures their interoperability.
Ensures the technical and technology topics are properly document in ICS2 documentation. Acts as chef de file for the technical deliverables
Oversees the work of external contractors pertaining to architecture.
Educational qualifications
Bachelor degree (EQF6) minimum.
Technical expertise
Very good knowledge of standard IT products and technologies, like Oracle SQL or Microsoft SQL, Kubernetes, Docker, Cloudera, Spark, Kafka, Microservices, RESTful APIs, AWS, Azure, Tanzu, etc.
Ability to give business and technical presentations to multiple stakeholders
Ability to apply high quality standards
Analysis and problem-solving sk