Enterprise Architect
About our client
Our client is an international organisation promoting global monetary and financial stability and is a bank for central banks. Its head office is located in Basel, Switzerland, with representative offices in Hong Kong SAR and Mexico City. Our client is able to recruit globally, regardless of nationality, and offers competitive employment packages.
Your responsibilities
1. Work with development and operations teams across Architecture and Applications to create a vision and roadmap for the key applications and platforms supported by the group.
2. Maintain high-level enterprise architecture maps for the Bank, including key systems and information flows.
3. Advise and assist with changes to business architecture and business process optimisation.
4. Act as an expert adviser to the Bank on application architecture and strategic technology issues, and write reports for executive audiences.
5. Working with IMS and cross-business technical experts, define and promote common architecture principles, standards, tools and implementation methodologies.
6. Organise bank-wide architecture governance and assist the Head of Architecture and Applications in chairing the meetings and issuing recommendations.
7. Establish a virtual team of architects and technical experts across the IT department and promote architecture collaboration.
8. Provide architectural oversight on key IT projects.
9. Play a leading role in the identification and evaluation of new technologies.
10. Perform pre- and post-project architecture reviews.
11. Own the portfolio of application development tools provided to developers across the Bank and ensure that they evolve over time to meet developers´ needs.
12. Review, with the aim of constantly improving, the application architecture landscape of the Bank.
Your profile
13. At least five years´ experience in software development and/or architecture related IT roles
14. Experience of creating and communicating architecture concepts and technology roadmaps
15. Experience working on projects spanning multiple technology teams and business areas
16. Experience presenting architecture and technology topics to senior executives
17. Experience working with complex enterprise data architectures with strong knowledge of relational database technologies
18. Knowledge and experience with Microsoft development technologies (C# .NET, WCF, WPF, Visual Studio etc), NoSQL/Big Data technologies, and Python and/or R will be advantages.
19. An industry background in financial markets or central banking will be an advantage.
20. Strong architecture modelling and visualisation skills
21. Excellent communication skills – written, visual and oral
22. An ability to formulate technical strategy
23. An ability to work collaboratively and establish strong working relationships across different technical teams and business users
24. An ability to understand and adapt to a broad range of existing and new technologies
25. An ability to work independently
26. Fluent in English (oral and written)
27. University degree (ideally at masters level, in a computer science related discipline)
Your chance
Interested? Please do not hesitate to find out more about this unique opportunity and send your complete application file to .
Ort: Basel Spezialisierung: Sprachen: Job ID: 676 |