Senior IT Solution Architect

<p><b>Job Overview</b></p> <p>We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior IT Solution Architect to join our IT Corporate – Business Relationship Management team. The ideal candidate will possess a solid background in enterprise architecture, distributed systems, and cloud solutions, with a strong understanding of business processes and systems.<br/> The Solution Architect will be deeply involved in daily work across all corporate business units, regularly interacting with both stakeholders and subject matter experts.</p> <p> </p> <h2><b>Your main responsibilities</b></h2> <ul> <li>Design, develop, and implement IT architectures to support Alpiq’s corporate systems like ERP, HR Information System and others.</li> <li>Ensure the adherence to architecture principles, standards, and best practices, ensuring alignment with the Alpiq’s business objectives and regulatory requirements.</li> <li>Design cloud-native solutions using AWS, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.</li> <li>Document the architecture of distributed systems and services, implementing resilient, scalable microservices and service-oriented architectures (SOA).</li> <li>Ensure architectural consistency and adherence to standards across projects and programs.</li> <li>Maintain and update architecture documentation, including reference architectures and guidelines, to ensure ongoing relevance and accuracy.</li> <li>Collaborate with project managers, business analysts, application engineering teams to understand business processes and translate them into technical solutions.</li> <li>Present and communicate complex architectural solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <h2><b>Your profile</b></h2> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.</li> <li>Minimum of 8 years of proven experience in enterprise IT architecture, with a focus on corporate business applications. </li> <li>Certifications in TOGAF, ArchiMate, AWS Solutions Architect, and ITIL4 are highly desirable.</li> <li>Proven experience with capability mapping, enterprise modeling, and architectural frameworks (such as TOGAF and ArchiMate), cloud architectures (AWS preferred).</li> <li>Familiarity and experience with large-scale Enterprise platforms such as SAP, Workday, Microsoft Dynamics or Oracle Suite is highly considered.</li> <li>Experience working with ADOIT, SAP Signavio and Atlassian Cloud are advantageous.</li> <li>Familiarity with integration technologies such as APIs, message queues, and event-driven architectures.</li> <li>Strong understanding of security architectures, identity and access management (IAM), and compliance in cloud and distributed systems.</li> <li>Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex technical and business requirements and deliver strategic solutions.</li> <li>Proficiency in English is mandatory.<br/>  </li> </ul>