Senior Solution Architecture
Since our founding, IDEMIA has been on a mission to unlock the world and make it safer through our cutting-edge identity technologies. Our technology leadership makes us the partner of choice for hundreds of governments and thousands of enterprises in over 180 countries, including some of the biggest and most influential brands in the world. In applying our unique expertise in biometrics and cryptography, we enable our clients to unlock simpler and safer ways to pay, connect, access, identify, travel and protect public places – at scale and in total security.
Our teams work from 5 continents and speak 100+ different languages. We strongly believe that our diversity is a key driver of innovation and performance.
Purpose
The Client Engagement Solution Architect collaborates with local program teams, client engagement partners, R&D, product teams, project delivery teams, and global subject matter experts to understand customer needs, define solution architectures, and support projects from the pre-sales phase through implementation and delivery.
The role is responsible for ensuring clear product and project requirement definitions and translating them into efficient and scalable application and service designs in alignment with the relevant teams. The role also ensures proper execution of the solution design and monitors key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure successful project outcomes.
The ideal candidate should possess a balanced mix of technical expertise and business understanding.
Key Missions (Job Responsibilities)
- Collaborate with Client Engagement Partners during RFI/RFP responses by contributing to solution design, cost estimation, and technical proposals.
- Support Program Managers in defining product and project requirements and ensuring alignment with the proposed solution architecture.
- Gather business and functional requirements from internal and external stakeholders and translate them into robust, scalable, and maintainable technical specifications.
- Define the functional and technical architecture of solutions to meet performance, quality, budget, and operational constraints.
- Perform architecture feasibility analysis, including performance, reliability, fault tolerance, and risk assessments, and recommend appropriate architecture options.
- Lead the solution architecture throughout the full lifecycle, from pre-sales and solution design to implementation and delivery.
- Develop and maintain architecture and design documentation serving as the reference for engineering and project execution.
- Formalize architecture and solution design documentation and obtain necessary stakeholder approvals.
- Ensure architectural consistency and technological alignment across all system and platform components.
- Provide design reviews and technical guidance to engineering teams, including integration, performance, scalability, and system architecture aspects.
- Support development teams in resolving complex technical issues and ensuring alignment with the approved architecture.
- Establish processes to monitor solution implementation and track technical KPIs to ensure architecture compliance and performance objectives.
- Participate in architecture governance, technology evaluation, and standardization initiatives across the organization.
Technical Environment / Skills
Software & Development
- Java / J2EE, JBoss, C++
Infrastructure
- Operating systems: Windows, Linux, Unix
- Virtualization: VMware
- Networking and High Availability architectures
Cloud & Containerization
- AWS, Azure
- Docker, Kubernetes
Databases
- Oracle (RAC, Data Guard, Partitioning, Advanced Security, Vault)
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Microsoft SQL Server
Security
- PKI, certificates, firewalls, secure infrastructure design
Standards & Compliance
- ISO 27001
- eIDAS
- ICAO standards
By choosing to work at IDEMIA, you will join a unique tech company, offering a wide range of growth opportunities. You will contribute to a safer world, collaborating with an international and global community. We value the diversity of our teams and welcome people from all walks of life, regardless of how they look, where they come from, who they love, or what they think.
We deliver cutting edge, future proof innovation that reach the highest technological standards and we’re transforming, fast, to stay a leader in a world that’s changing fast, too.
At IDEMIA, people can develop their expertise and feel a sense of ownership and empowerment, in a global environment, as part of a company with the ambition and the ability to change the world.
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