Company Description
- SGS is the world’s leading Testing, Inspection and Certification company. We operate a network of over 2,500 laboratories and business facilities across 115 countries, supported by a team of 99,500 dedicated professionals. With over 145 years of service excellence, we combine the precision and accuracy that define Swiss companies to help organizations achieve the highest standards of quality, compliance, and sustainability.
Job Description
The Digital Solution Architect will be responsible for leading and defining the necessary architecture and infrastructure for validating and scaling digital innovation projects. From feasibility assessments to solution scoping, conceptual design, and delivery you will be the driving force of the architecture delivery and technical product roadmap used in the innovation process. You will work closely with a variety of stakeholders throughout the organization and ensure solution conformance of scaled solutions to our operational architecture principles and customer needs.
The Digital Solution Architect embraces lean and agile practices, and works with cross-functional, and distributed teams. Working in close collaboration with others, you will actively collaborate to build and release new software at speed.
- Analyze the technology environment internally and externally and define strategic opportunities.
- Analyze, document and plan enterprise integration of services.
- Responsibile for the innovation “sandbox” architecture and its integration to operational IT.
- Subject matter expert and responsible for the solution- and enterprise- architecture, process, and frameworks used to develop digital innovation services and products.
- Architecture responsibility include but is not limited to process, security, integration, data, infrastructure, cloud and mobile.
- Lead and mentor technical resource on the use and application of architecture for digital services.
- Lead the planning, definition, and high-level design of the target architecture as well as compare and explore competing alternatives.
- Define systems and their interfaces, allocate responsibilities to subsystems, understand solution deployment, and communicate requirements for interactions within the solution context.
- Work with customers, stakeholders, and suppliers to establish high-level Solution Intent and its information models and documentation.
- Elicit and validate critical NFRs at the solution level, participate in the definition of other requirements at the project and technical levels.
- Produce solutions using complex architectures based on advanced or emerging design patterns.
- Interact with client's IT, internal IT, and business teams to address technical dependencies in the deployment of solutions.
- Resolve technical issues and identify solutions by building consensus among technical stakeholders.
- Participate in all aspects of agile software development including design, development, implementation, test, and deployment.
- Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design.
- Can write, modify and debug web applications in multiple tech stacks and domains.
- Self-document development processes, conduct peer reviews, and give actionable feedback.
- Work with the company validation- and agile development methodologies, adhering to best practices and pursuing continuous improvement.
- Actively contribute to the squad rituals such as planning meetings, stand-ups, and retrospect's.
Qualifications
Degree or higher in computer science.
Additional Information
- 10+ years of experience in relevant IT domains.
- 4+ years of experience as a digital Solution/System/Domain Architect.
- Hands-on experience in designing enterprise-grade architectures.
- Good experience in software architecture from an overall platform perspective as well as in depth knowledge with architecture solutions such as serverless, event-driven and microservices.
- Experience with cloud-, infrastructure-, mobile-, integration-, data-, security- and process architecture.
- Experience with cloud-native solutions or container technologies.
- Thorough knowledge of multiple frontend and backend technologies applied in multiple industries.
- Proven knowledge and experience working in an agile development (XP, Kanban, Scrum) environment with remote teams utilizing principles of agile development with continuous integration and deployment, test-driven development, and pair programming.
- Excellent communication, organization, and collaboration skills.
- Strong leadership skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Fluent in English. Other languages are a benefit.
- Able to apply judgement and act according to the SGS standards of ethics and integrity.
- Develop Self and Others: Identifies and prepares self or others for future roles. Supports/coaches others to achieve defined objectives. Creates and implements personal and/or team member development plans.
- Delivers Superior Results: Sets higher standards of performance. Fosters a sense of urgency to exceed targets. Works to exceed customers’ expectations. Strives for operational excellence. Delivers short-term wins that build on long-term goals and sustainable success
- Influences Internally & Externally: Seeks to understand others' needs and interests to build trust. Convinces others to change the way they think and act. Tailors his/her message to the audiences' needs. Generates engagement and commitment from others.
- Collaborates Effectively: Goes beyond ‘borders’ to connect with others. Shares information and resources across countries / businesses / teams. Leverages diversity to work efficiently. Seeks out and replicates better practices. Overcomes barriers that inhibit interaction
- Embraces Change: Anticipates the need for change. Seeks out new and improved ways of doing things. Overcomes the barriers to change. Implements change in a timely and effective manner. Champions the importance of change.