Senior Technical Architect

As a Technical Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our IT landscape. You will be responsible for advising IT projects throughout their lifecycle and defining, maintaining and enforcing technical standards across the organization.

You will act as a gatekeeper to ensure architectural consistency, avoid technology sprawl, and promote simplicity, stability, manageability, cost-efficiency, and security.

This role requires strong communication skills, the ability to lead stakeholders toward consensus, and a passion for continuous learning in a fast-evolving cloud environment.

Key duties and responsibilities

As a member of the Technical Architecture team your responsibilities are:

IT Project Advisory

• Act as a trusted advisor to IT project teams from initiation through delivery. Provide guidance on technology choices, integration patterns, and infrastructure design.
• Review and validate technical architectures, ensuring alignment with company standards and cloud best practices.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks early in the project lifecycle.
• Provide hands-on support in case of critical troubleshooting
• Define, document, and maintain IT technical standards, reference architectures, and design patterns.
• Participate in architecture review boards and contribute to governance processes.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, particularly in cloud computing and enterprise architecture.
• Evaluate new tools and platforms for potential adoption in SCOR Technology Portfolio. Help include these technologies in SCOR CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to the evolution of the company's cloud strategy and digital transformation roadmap.

Technical Standards & Governance

• Define, document, and maintain IT technical standards, reference architectures, and design patterns.
• Participate in architecture review boards and contribute to governance processes.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, particularly in cloud computing and enterprise architecture.
• Evaluate new tools and platforms for potential adoption in SCOR Technology Portfolio. Help include these technologies in SCOR CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to the evolution of the company's cloud strategy and digital transformation roadmap.

Your first assignment will be to evaluate and strategize the transition of our IT estate from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to Platform as a Service (PaaS) on Azure Cloud, covering various PaaS technologies including databases, application hosting and message handling. The study will be grounded within the current SCOR infrastructure, usages, operation model and security requirements. Key areas of focus do include technical suitability, technical gain, impact on production team, migration effort and cost comparison.

Required experience & competencies

• 10+ years of experience in IT architecture, with a strong focus on cloud-based solutions.

• Fluent in English; basics in French is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the reinsurance, insurance or other financial industry is a plus

Technical Skills

• Strong experience in Public Cloud platforms, especially Azure. Alicloud is a plus.
• Strong experience in architectural principles, frameworks, and best practices.
• Strong experience in networks (DNS, Routing), Storage (performance) and Identity Management
• Experience on CI/CD platforms (Ansible, Terraform) 
• Experience in software engineering in any modern language (Python, Java, ...)
• Experience in Agile Methods

Soft Skills

• Pronounced analytical and conceptual capabilities
• Create and deliver high-quality documentation and presentations to support decision-making and knowledge sharing.
• Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences. Ability to present complex situations in a clear way.
• Collaborate with IT production, cybersecurity, network, and application teams to ensure cohesive and secure designs
• Willingness to adapt and learn in a dynamic technology environment.
• Capacity to navigate in an international environment 

Required Education 

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.