IT System Architect

About Mobica

We are a global software services company, delivering enabling technologies that transform business outcomes. We offer scalable custom software engineering with technical and delivery excellence, across the stack, from chip to cloud.

Position

The role of the System Architect is to enable business and IT leaders to make investment decisions that balance and prioritize current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the longer-term strategic vision of the organization. Furthermore, the System Architect provides technology guidance, road maps, principles, standards, and best practices. From a technical point of view, the role holder is responsible for proper integration between systems.

You will be responsible for:

• Provides overall direction, guidance, and definition of IT architecture to effectively support the corporate business strategy
• Supports all architectural disciplines and champions architectural initiatives 
• Defining, explaining, and communicating architectural principles, standards, guidelines, and procedures
• Reviews existing business processes and establish metrics to improve business processes, as well as support all architectural disciplines under their direction 
• Leads programs to develop, maintain, and govern the enterprise architecture across the organization
• Coordinating initiatives to develop, maintain and manage enterprise architecture for the organization
• Coordinating the Corporate Architecture board to validate solutions
• Works on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains
• Operate on complex projects requiring in-depth knowledge of multiple specialized architectural domains 
• Leads the EA review board and ensures that the solutions are compliant with target-state architecture models
• Aligns architecture strategy with business goals
• Defines, explains and advocates technology strategy
• Develops and communicates architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures 
• Promotes the EA process, outcomes, and results to the organization and senior leadership
• Leads and facilitates the creation of governing principles to guide EA decision-making 
• Leads the EA governance processes
• Manages exceptions to architectural standards at an enterprise level 
• Reviews and/or analyzes and develops architectural requirements as needed for the organization
• Ensures the conceptual completeness of the technical solutions 
• Leads teams in developing technology plans
• Approves modification of the enterprise architecture to accommodate project needs
• Provides strategic consultation to business and IT leaders
• Advises on options, risks, costs versus benefits, system impacts, and technology priorities 
• Works with business leaders to understand business requirements and help them understand how technology tradeoffs influence strategy
• Consults with project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture 
• Develops a communication plan for architecture at the enterprise level 
• Directs the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry, and market trends 
• Ensures recommendations are based on business relevance, appropriate timing, and deployment
• Approves the tools and components used within the enterprise
• Works with senior leadership to approve the allocation of budget to meet architectural initiatives critical to business/mission success
• Collaborates with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements
• Collaborate with senior management to establish a budget that aligns with architectural initiatives critical to business success
• Defines the skills, competencies in the skills, and talents for architecture team members, and works with human resources to acquire staff
• Responsible for the overall training and development of the architecture team
• Leads a small team (up to 5) of integration, cloud and databases specialists, and architects, including team recruitment, development, and maintenance

Your qualification

• 10 or more years of IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations
• Leadership experience in managing multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders
• Requires exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture, business re-engineering principles, and processes, and basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills
• Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language

What we offer

• Competitive salary adequate to your skills and performance
• Flexible working hours
• Training programs
• Private medical insurance
• Multisport program
• English lessons
• Company social events
• Weekly cakes and fruits
• Relocation assistance