Application and Integration Architect

Arηs Group, Part of Accenture, specializes in the management of complex public sector IT projects, including systems integration, informatics and analytics, solution implementation and program management. Our team helps lead clients through digital and information systems design, bringing expertise in a variety of areas ranging from software development, data science and security management to machine learning, cloud, and mobile development. Arηs Group was acquired by Accenture in July 2024.

Tasks:

• Sets standards in scope of design, development, quality and testing.
• Designs and communicates enterprise wide databases architecture.
• Design databases architectures, schemas, analytical platform and BI services, data governance.
• Elicits needs, analyses requirements.
• Transfers business, users and technical needs into architectures.
• Maps business goals, project benefits, priorities, components, system features.
• Analyses available systems, applications and services.
• Identify options for potential solutions.
• Maintains and tracks architecture in systems lifecycle.
• Estimate and size network infrastructure in accordance with the requirements of the systems and business applications.
• Contributes to systems design, testing, quality assurance, change management.
• Prepares system documentation and provides presentations.
• Lead development teams and development processes.
• Selects and evaluates technologies.
• Collects and interprets system metrics.
• Optimizes system from performance, security and quality points of view.
• Contribute to Enterprise Architecture repository and managing required artifacts.

• Master's Degree plus minimum 8 years of IT relevant professional experience 
• Minimum English language skills (CEFR) : B2
• Minimum 5 years of experience at similar position

Required certificates

At least 2 certifications among:

1. Iasa Architect CITA-A or equivalent
2. Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert or equivalent
3. Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals or equivalent
4. TIBCO Certified Associate or equivalent
5. Certified SOA Architect or equivalent

• Has performed role of key architect in development of at least 1 enterprise-wide integration platform deployment.
• Minimum of 2 years experience as an application architect, preferably in a public sector or EU agencies environment.
• Expert in architecting of systems integration on data and API level.
• Expert in designing enterprise level integration platform connectors, flows, and services bus solutions.
• Expert in planning capacity and security of the integration platform capabilities.
• Familiar with integration patterns, standards and models.
• Familiar with serverless and containerisation platforms in cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Holds excellent technical knowledge about integration platforms such as Tibco or Mulesoft, SOA, databases, application servers, communication middleware, web applications, cloud integration patterns, business intelligence concepts, systems integration, Software Development Lifecycle.
• Sound knowledge of designing systems and applications in UML.
• Familiar with DevSecOps approach.
• Extensive experience in aligning application development with business needs.
• Excellent knowledge in using systems modelling tools like Sparx Enterprise Architect, Aris Architect or others.
• Familiar with market wide designing architecture standards or frameworks such as, TOGAF, Zachman, Azure Well-Architected framework or similar.
• Sound knowledge about hybrid systems and applications integration.
• Presents excellent communication skills.
• Holds ability to document effectively.
• Presents problem solving skills.
• Presents leadership skills.

Specific Requirements

• Experience in modelling in Archimate.
• Experience in providing architecture services to large-scale IT systems for the management of operational resources deployed by a centralized function to the external distributed and diverse entities.