IT Architect - Business Solutions

Location: Geneva · Contract: Permanent · Assignment: long term · Rate: 100% · Start: January 2027

For one of our clients based in Geneva, we are looking for an experienced IT Architect - Business Solutions.

Context

Within the IT Department, the Business Solutions Architecture team plays a central role in the design, maintenance and evolution of business solutions that support the organisation's processes and strategies. It is involved in the design of projects and programmes, in collaboration with other architects and technical teams, to ensure solutions are consistent with architectural strategies and meet business requirements.

The team supports the business and project teams in translating needs into solution architectures, taking into account business processes, data, system integrations as well as quality, security, performance and sustainability requirements. It also contributes to the modernisation of solutions, the definition of reusable standards and patterns, and the anticipation of technological obsolescence.

In this context, the team wishes to strengthen itself with an IT architect working transversally across different business domains, programmes and projects. Through their expertise and transversal positioning, the architect ensures the coherence of solutions with existing systems, internal directions and the evolution paths of the information system, and participates in the design of sustainable, scalable and integrated solutions.

Your missions

• Analyse business needs and processes, and translate them into functional and architectural requirements

• Design functional architectures of solutions, business processes, data flows and models, and system integrations

• Define and maintain architectural standards and patterns for each business domain and qualify new technologies

• Propose architectural evolutions (simplification, modernisation, obsolescence) and produce associated roadmaps

• Ensure alignment of architectures with the company’s IT and business strategies

• Estimate proposed solutions and defend cases before arbitration committees

• Support project and programme teams by promoting component reuse and technological migrations

• Support users and business management (advice, mentoring, change management)

• Collaborate with other architects for architectural coherence and cross expertise

• Participate in service reviews, impact studies and maintenance of architectural repositories

Education

• University Master’s degree in computer science or EPF/HES engineering diploma or equivalent

• Ideally complemented by continuing education at CAS level related to the role

Essential skills

• 5 years’ experience in a similar role

• Expertise in design, urbanisation and modelling of business solutions, with the ability to define target architectures, ensure their coherence with internal directions and standards, and define IT evolution paths

• Ability to analyse business needs, processes, data and system interactions, and translate them into functional and architectural requirements

• Mastery of 3-tier and service-oriented architectures, interoperability standards and API Management solutions

• Proven experience in modular architecture, microservices and containerisation, notably with OpenShift, as well as hexagonal architecture, DDD and Clean Architecture

• Good knowledge of cloud architectures (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, CaaS/XaaS)

• Good knowledge of middleware (application servers, BPM, rule engines) and web environment challenges: security, performance, high availability and scalability

• Good mastery of authentication and authorisation protocols and mechanisms

• Ability to design resilient architectures, integrating fault tolerance, observability and distributed monitoring principles

• Good mastery of DevOps practices and tools, notably CI/CD, IaC, Ansible, Git, as well as automation and orchestration mechanisms

• Mastery of Web Components standards for developing modular, reusable and maintainable interfaces

• Expertise in risk identification and management and in developing mitigation plans, notably in transformation and digitisation projects of business processes

• Demonstrated sensitivity to user experience issues and software quality

• Ability to support business, project and technical teams, to simplify architectural choices and defend recommendations before decision-making bodies

• Excellent analytical, synthesis and communication skills, with autonomy, rigour, pragmatism and ability to work in a matrix environment

Appreciated skills

• Experience in modelling (ArchiMate, Orbus iServer, UML 2, BPMN) and analysis, knowledge of TOGAF and ITIL

• Experience implementing good application security practices

• Practice of event-driven architectures

• Technical management of internal and external teams

• Experience in Java

• Expertise in interoperability protocols (especially SOAP, REST, JMS)

• Mastery of authorisation and authentication protocols (OAuth2/OIDC, SAMLv2, Kerberos)

• Ability to evaluate solutions and their costing

A plus

• Successful experience in a large organisation of comparable complexity

Personal qualities

• Sense of responsibility and contact with stakeholders and users

• Initiative, proactivity and persuasiveness

• Flexibility and adaptability

• Ability to work in a team in an Agile environment and adapt effectively to unforeseen events

• Excellent writing skills and rigour in documentation

• Leadership and listening skills