Architecte technique ENGIE IT

Job description

Operating under the managerial authority of Global Business Support (GBS), ENGIE Information and Technologies (ENGIE IT) is ENGIE’s information systems nerve centre.
We produce IT services for the Group’s Business Units and functional lines in the following areas:

- IT infrastructure: networks, work environment, data centres, security, communication, etc.;
- research, development and application maintenance;
- advice on organising and managing business projects with a strong IT dimension.

ENGIE IT draws on its skills and expertise to benefit the Group’s businesses. We support their transformation by offering competitive services with high added value.
We anticipate market developments and ENGIE’s digital challenges, tailor our offer accordingly and act as an IT innovation incubator for the Group’s businesses.

In connection with the implementation of the industrial plan to develop shared service centres (SSCs) in France and Belgium, ENGIE IT SSC is looking for an:

Architect (M/F)
One of the business activities of Business Support Information Systems
Position based in Saint Ouen (93)

 
Desired profile - Internal
Technical Architects are responsible for designing the technical architecture in a specific IS area and updating it in the medium and long term in response to business needs and services offered to the ENGIE IT catalogue. They endeavour to find the best compromise between:

- the resources of the existing infrastructure;

- alignment with the reference framework in which the IS is integrated;

- IS performance (e.g. scalability, maintainability, operability, reusability, cost).
They ensure that all IT resources and their upgrades are consistent (hardware, applications, databases, networks, middleware, operating systems) by making the most of the state of the art. They make every effort to meet the required level of service and guarantee security.

Main activities

Conceptualising

- Designing the technical architecture for SAP HANA solutions on behalf of customers and ENGIE IT services

- Producing technical architecture files so that solutions can be implemented

- Aligning technical architecture with the Group IT Department’s and ENGIE IT’s standards

- Contributing to the industrialisation, streamlining and urbanisation of technical services

- Complying with the architectural practices in effect while contributing to knowledge management and enrichment of the architecture framework

- Verifying and analysing the technical impact of new solutions, consistency and the performance of technical architecture

- Measuring the economic and financial effects of these solutions

- Applying ENGIE IT’s project management methodology

- Defining the technical architecture roadmap to meet the challenges of handling obsolescence, security, functional needs and resource optimisation

- Developing control over application architecture and its assimilation into technical architecture

- Maintaining a technology watch over major market players

- Contributing to service capacity planning

Recommending and/or advising

- For any new project or new technology, teaming up with the Application Architect and the experts to assess the impact on existing or forecast architecture and recommend technical choices that ensure the upgrade’s consistency and performance

- Helping to draw upand  update technical standards

- Advising the functional area’s Information System Architect on the use of ENGIE IT services

- Offering customers improvements to solutions

- Putting forward suggestions for defining ENGIE IT’s technical policy and proposing innovative solutions

- Arguing in favour of the proposed architecture in the technical architecture validation body

Communicating

- Working in a team with experts and project managers

- Promoting the technical architecture to the development and operational IT teams

- Participating in the architect community by making pertinent suggestions

 
Skills
- Ability to define realistic and pragmatic IT architecture to support IS and business requirements in complex environments
- Experience in IT project management in large-scale environments
- Sound knowledge of service delivery management
- Strong ability in architecture modelling and drawing
- Aptitude for writing structured technical documentation
- Flair for explaining technical topics to non-technical people
- Open-mindedness, customer-oriented attitude, dedication to finding cost-effective solutions
- Ability to challenge the technical solutions put forward by the subject matter experts
- Solid experience with SAP HANA

 
Technical knowledge

Strong general knowledge of IT covering the following technical fields:
- networks (network segmentation, firewall/routers);
- computer and server hardware, operating systems for SAP HANA in TDI v5;
- infrastructure virtualisation and consolidation;
- public cloud (AWS/Azure);
- identity and account management;
- infrastructure tooling (backup/monitoring, scripting and task automation);
- IT security best practices and data protection (GDPR, disaster recovery plan, DICT);
- methodology (ArchiMate, ITIL, project management waterfall/agile)

Additional Information
·  Posting Date: Oct 2, 2019