Solution Architect

About the job

Company Description

Talan is an international consulting and technology expertise group, supporting and accelerating the digital transformation of its clients through the levers of technology, data and innovation.

For over 20 years, Talan has been advising and supporting companies and public institutions in defining and implementing their transformation and innovation projects in Switzerland and internationally.

Present on 5 continents in 21 countries, the Group, certified Great Place To Work, has more than 7000 employees.

Equipped with a Research and Innovation Centre, Talan places innovation at the heart of its development and operates in areas of technological change such as Artificial Intelligence, Data Intelligence, Blockchain, to serve the growth of large groups and mid-sized companies in a committed and responsible approach.

By placing "Positive Innovation" at the heart of its strategy, Talan is convinced that technology amplifies its impact on society as a whole by being at the service of humanity.

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Job Description

As part of a major programme to transform and modernise its information system, our client, a leading player in Banking, is strengthening its Enterprise Solution Architecture practice.

We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect capable of designing target architectures, supporting IT and business teams, and contributing to the modernisation of platforms towards Cloud, DevOps and API-driven environments.

Your responsibilities

• Translate business needs into scalable, reliable, secure and resilient IT solutions.
• Define target functional and technical architectures and support their implementation.
• Provide technical leadership to development teams and support them in DevOps, private/public Cloud and containerisation transformations.
• Guide Project Managers and business teams towards the target functional architecture.
• Collaborate with numerous stakeholders: Security, Data Governance, Operational Resilience, Data Protection, Legal, Compliance, Architecture and IT Delivery teams.
• Ensure solution consistency with enterprise architecture standards.
• Maintain architecture documentation and the Enterprise Architecture repository: Confluence, My-Carto, Solution Design documentation.
• Support modernisation initiatives and the integration of emerging technologies, notably AI, Machine Learning and Blockchain.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, IT or equivalent field.
• 5 to 10 years of experience as a Solution Architect and/or Tech Lead.
• Strong experience in Swiss and international Private Banking.
• Good functional understanding of one or more domains:
  • Wealth Management
  • Asset Management
  • Trading
  • Treasury
  • Back Office / Operations
• Ability to work effectively with both business teams and technical experts and control functions.
• Excellent ability to unite cross-functional teams around a target architecture.

Technical skills

Architecture & Infrastructure

• Enterprise Architecture / Open Service Architecture
• API / BUS-oriented architecture
• Private and public Cloud
• Bare Metal, VMware ESX / vCenter
• Virtual Machines
• Kubernetes / OpenShift
• Microsoft Cloud

Security

• Security by Design
• Zero Trust

Development

• Java
• .NET
• JavaScript / Vue.js
• Python

Databases

• Oracle
• SQL Server
• MongoDB
• Elasticsearch

DevOps

• Azure DevOps
• Git
• GitHub Copilot
• Agile and Waterfall approaches
• Specification-driven development

Emerging technologies

• Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
• Blockchain

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