Enterprise Architect - ETRM

D&C Technology is a functional unit that supports Alpiq’s Business Area Digital & Commerce with management systems for the trading, origination and energy sales businesses, including the delivery of digital solutions for customers from the industrial, commerce and energy sectors.

We are hiring an Enterprise Architect - ETRM who could be based either in Lausanne or Olten, CH.

Your primary responsibilities will be to establish and maintain an architectural vision, provide architecture support and guidance to technology and IT activities in line with the vision, drive the shift towards a simplified, microservices architecture and the reuse of assets and services and to pursue the changes required
to achieve business and technology.

Your accountabilities

• Establish and maintain a technology strategy of D&C, including architectural and other design/technology/security standards in line with enterprise standards, policies and guidelines, and represent D&C interests in various enterprise architecture workgroups
• Establish, maintain and ensure adherence to architectural principles, methodologies, frameworks and approaches, including best practices of cloud architectures, either using the relevant Design Authority, project or line management
• Ensure architecture activities, decisions and recommendations are motivated by clear business benefits with transparency on risks, ensure follow-up communication activities related to achieved business benefits and/or risk management activities
• To maintain an architecture repository for D&C in accordance with the agreed architecture framework, capturing architecture documentation and agreed architectural views
• To contribute to project ideas, projects, demands, and PoCs by
  -Supporting the scoping of new activities, services and changes to existing services
  -Analyzing and translating business, information, technical requirements into an architectural blueprint that outlines solutions to achieve the business objectives, ensuring that the blueprint capture both functional and non-functional requirements
  -Communicating, presenting and iterating architectural views and supporting material with development teams, management, and business stakeholders.
  -Providing landscape-wide knowledge across multiple technical areas and business segments to ensure dependencies and risks are accurately captured
  -Ensuring technical solutions and changes on the D&C technology landscape are in line with the architectural vision, principles and standards set out by the relevant design authority
  -Elaborating and/or reviewing low-level architecture design together with Software Engineers
  -Perform architectural reviews and prepare conformance reports for development teams, Business Partners, business stakeholders and management
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of IT governance, policies and maturity within D&C and at an enterprise level
• To work closely with Business Partners, Business Analysts, Project Managers, technical experts and project resources to achieve common objectives; especially to assist and review the work of peer Architects and Business Analysts
• Adhere to the D&C Technology Information Security Management System in your area of responsibility

Your profile

• 8+ years of experience and a background of working with enterprise/solutions architecture,
  systems integration, and software engineering
• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or an equivalent certification, ideally in an engineering, computer science, or similar technical discipline
• Experience in architecture standards, frameworks and tools, including security best practices; TOGAF (or similar) certification, experience in UML 2.x, BPMN 2.0, and/or ArchiMate is preferred
• Experience with architecting cloud solutions for the AWS cloud platform; AWS Architect certification and experience with designing secure, microservices and APIs is an advantage
• Experience of software development methodologies (e.g. Agile, DevOps) and requirements engineering is expected, preferably with certifications, ideally including awareness of project management methodologies
• Deep knowledge of the trading and/or energy sectors, including related business processes
• Strong knowledge of how applications, technology and IT services can support business processes
• Good communications, presentation and inter-personal skills; team and goal oriented, analytical and problem-solving skills are highly valued
• Fluent in English; competency in German and French is advantageous