Senior Solutions Architect
Genève
Key information
- Publication date:16 September 2025
- Workload:100%
- Place of work:Genève
Job summary
Founded in 1978, Darest Informatic SA specializes in IT solutions.
Tasks
- Design and formalize architecture according to enterprise standards.
- Collaborate in Agile teams to develop and maintain solutions.
- Analyze technical obsolescence and propose improvement plans.
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent required.
- Over 6 years of experience as a solution architect.
- Strong knowledge of Java architectures and frameworks.
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Company Description
Founded in 1978, Darest Informatic SA provides IT equipment and services specifically dedicated to SMEs and Large Enterprises. We cover all the IT needs of our clients by offering tailor-made infrastructures thanks to our specialist IT architects as well as the engineering necessary to meet their requests.
Job Description
For one of our clients in the public sector, we are looking for a Senior Solutions Architect.
The objective is to design the architecture and support the technical realization of
several requests or projects.
A confirmed architect is required on these projects to design and formalize solutions
in compliance with the standards and norms defined by the enterprise architecture.
Education
- Higher education degree in computer science (ES) or federal certificate or HES diploma
or equivalent
Mandatory skills:
- More than 6 years of experience as a solutions architect
Important skills:
- Excellent ability to design information system architectures, to
urbanize and model
- Excellent ability to collaborate with the entire project team in an
Agile environment
- Mastery of modern and legacy Java solution architectures
- 10 years of experience in Java application development and maintenance
- Excellent knowledge of Java Frameworks (Spring / Hibernate, etc.)
- Very good knowledge of development and continuous integration tools
- Proven experience in the realization and maintenance of service-oriented architectures
(webservices SOAP/REST) and applications under Spring (Tomcat)
- Very good knowledge of databases, particularly Oracle (DDL, DML)
and PL/SQL language
- Proven experience in implementing vendor solutions
- Expertise in performance diagnosis and improvement.
- Experience with web and client-server environments, as well as associated
constraints (security, high availability)
- Ability to adapt to legacy environments or technologies
Optional skills that would be a plus
- Experience on an Agile development project
- Experience in modeling with Orbus iServer
- Knowledge in Archimate and BPMN modeling
- Good knowledge in application security (OWASP,
authentication, PKI, cryptography...)
- Experience with issues related to system operation and interoperability
(application bus, JMS)
- Knowledge of Cloud principles
Main activities
- Within projects (Build):
- Define and model the solution architecture during the project design phase
- Ensure validation of this architecture with the IT services of OCSIN
- Contribute to detailed design phases to provide technical feasibility opinions and/or propose alternative solutions
- Contribute to the preparation and conduct of design reviews (Hermès)
- Support the development team or supplier by ensuring compliance with defined architectural principles
- Provide progress reports to the IT team and escalate alerts
- Ensure the quality of developments
- Ensure, with the project manager, the associated estimations and revisions
- Within maintenance activities (Run):
- Analyze technical obsolescence and information security issues and propose treatment and improvement plans
- Assist application managers in resolving complex incidents or anomalies
Required qualities
- Manage change
- Team spirit
- Respect for rules, standards, methods, and organization
- Availability, commitment
- Rigorous
Qualifications
Education
- Higher education degree in computer science (ES) or federal certificate or HES diploma
or equivalent
Additional Information
Compensation based on profile
Available quickly
Minimum 6 years of experience in a similar position