Content Accelerator Solution Architect - Switzerland

Main purpose of the job:

Architecture Design: design the Architecture of the solution, in order to manage risk, cost and ensure first time right development with expected long term coherent architecture, preserving conceptual integrity, performance, security, evolutivity, sustainability, reliability, backward compatibility, maintainability

Main responsibilities:

- Technical specification delivery: Program Subject matter expert, with high level technical expertise
- Present architecture in ARM. Review detailed technical design proposed by Application Development Vendor.
- Integration: ensure proper solution integration in client landscape.
- Performance stress testing/capacity planning: contribute to the design of the test scenario, leading the root cause analysis, scoping mission of the Application Development Vendor to support this activity.
- Validation of the estimated effort of development done by vendor
- Problem management/continuous improvement: together with Application Development Vendor and IS/IT teams, perform/contribute/coordinate root cause analysis on recurrent issues and solution review/redesign for solution enhancement.
- BR evaluation: clarify requirement, assess high level design, risk, impact on performance, workload, assumptions, together with project Manager and Application Development Vendor.
- Selecting a migration approach for data migration from Legacy systems to the new cloud solution
- Scoping/defining technical projects (example: Data migration, system integrations)to provide well defined work order to Application Development Vendor

Key skills:

- Deep experience in AGILE development, SCRUM and with programming experience in Java/J2EE or any othor Object Oriented languages
- 5+ year's design and/or implementation and/or support of highly distributed applications
- Strong communication skills, autonomous and proactive
- Strong understanding of architecture for cloud based platforms such as SaaS
- Deep understanding of RESTful API design principles and patterns
- SOA architecture and Webservices

This is an English-speaking role.