Description
Profs4U is looking for a "Solution Architect" for our international client.
Function
- As a Solution Architect, you act as part of a presales team or a project team translating business and IT requirements into solution architecture designs for large or medium scale systems using your knowledge of the current technologies and integrating existing products and new developments.
- You document and estimate your solution architecture designs and communicate them to our customers and other stakeholders. You ensure that solutions fit with the existing standards, capabilities and technology roadmaps of our customers.
- You follow market trends and competitor activities in your area and ensure that this data is used for the ongoing service development.
- You share your knowledge of the current solutions, technologies and methodologies with your colleagues by participating to communities of practices, organizing short presentations and writing "white papers".
Profile
- You have a computer science degree or equivalent experience and you have minimum 10 years of experience in the IT sector including 2 years in IT solutions design
- You are eager to learn new technologies; you are constantly up-to-date with IT evolutions and trends
- You have excellent communication skills and you can write complex documents and deliver persuasive presentations
- You have the ability to define and analyse user requirements and advise customers on scope and options for business and IT improvements
- You are capable to demonstrate your experience of working as the solution owner in your area of technical specialism on bids and programs
- You are flexible, pro-active, structured and quality oriented
- You speak fluent English, French or Dutch is major plus.
- Knowledge of these 3 languages is an asset
Your knowledge/experience:
- You have excellent architecture and design skills
- You have sound experiences in solutions architecture design
- You have an excellent knowledge of the SOA paradigm
- You have a good knowledge of the JEE platform
- You have a good knowledge of at least one Application Server (Weblogic, JBoss,)
- You have a good knowledge of at least one Enterprise Service Bus (OSB, ServiceMix,)
- You have a good knowledge of at least one RDBMS (Oracle Database, IBM DB2)
- You have a good knowledge of development methodologies (UP, Scrum)
- Knowledge of open source solutions is an asset