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Lead Architect

 Luxembourg, Luxembourg

 

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                                                   Lead Architect

Overview:
As a Chapter Lead for the Architect Chapter, you will lead and manage a team of architects responsible for middleware squads delivering advanced IT services. You will play a critical role in defining and implementing architecture strategies, aligning them with organizational objectives, and ensuring middleware solutions meet high-quality standards for scalability, availability, performance, and security.

Key Responsibilities:
1. Leadership and Team Development:

• Lead, inspire, and mentor a team of architects, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Provide strategic guidance to ensure alignment between architecture solutions and the organization’s goals.
• Support architects in their professional development and career growth, ensuring skills match current and future challenges.

2. Middleware Architecture Management:

• Oversee the design and development of middleware solutions to ensure they meet functional, technical, and security requirements.
• Define and enforce architectural standards, best practices, and governance frameworks for middleware technologies.
• Work closely with middleware squads to ensure that architectural designs are properly implemented and maintained.

3. Collaboration and Cross-Functional Coordination:

• Collaborate with other chapter leads, product owners, and squad members to align architecture objectives with overall project goals.
• Coordinate with stakeholders, including management and external teams, to address dependencies and ensure alignment with business needs.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and communication between middleware architects and other technical teams.

4. Continuous Improvement:

• Drive initiatives to optimize middleware architecture for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Identify and implement emerging technologies and methodologies to enhance middleware services and capabilities.
• Conduct regular architecture reviews to identify gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement.

5. Stakeholder Engagement:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for middleware architecture-related queries and decisions.
• Provide regular updates to senior management and stakeholders on architecture strategies, progress, and challenges.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure middleware solutions align with consumer needs and expectations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Extensive experience (min 7 years) in IT architecture, with a focus on middleware solutions.
• Proven leadership experience, with the ability to manage, mentor, and develop technical teams.
• Strong expertise in middleware technologies such as WebLogic, API Gateway, and containerization platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
• Solid understanding of Agile and SAFe methodologies and their application in architecture design and development.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a focus on delivering practical and innovative solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders effectively.

Requirements:

• Fluency in English (written and spoken); proficiency in any other European language is a plus.
• Experience in a public administration or similarly complex environment is desirable.