Your Job at a Glance
Passionate about architecture, strategy, data, and technology? Skilled at seamlessly navigating between sharing architecture content expertise and managing a team? Join the IT Strategy & Architecture tribe and lead our talented team through the bank’s digital transformation journey!
And in Detail
As the IT Lead Architect within the IT Strategy & Architecture tribe, you’re on a mission to define the architecture and support all business initiatives, ensuring optimal IT solutions across all dimensions (performance, costs, security, User eXperience,…).
You manage both the long-term architectural vision for the tribe and the prompt delivery of detailed architectures, making sure that they will systematically bring our vision to life, all while considering the tribe's delivery constraints.
Your activities include:
• Leading the architectural vision for your tribe
• Providing direction to the Tribe Architects, ensuring their work aligns with the architectural vision
• Validating and defending your team’s architectural content before the validation committees
• Collaborating closely with the IT Tribe Lead and the main tribe stakeholders.
• Planning all your team’s work and assigning tasks (initiative visions, transversal patterns and individual architectural opus deliverables)
Your Talents and Skills
The following qualities and skills are important for this position:
• You’re known for your good social skills and empathic mind: you can relate to the feelings and sentiments of the people in your team, and you’re a facilitator with good negotiation skills when dealing with stakeholders.
• Experience in managing, coaching and mentoring team members is a plus.
• You are creative, and have a passion for technology and innovation.
• You boast at least 10 years experience in IT, business analysis or software development.
• You have experience in architecture frameworks, EA tooling, legacy modernization, and architecture explicit contribution to complexity reduction.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture and cloud technologies is a plus.
• You have experience with working in complex environments, managing change and senior stakeholders.
• You have a proven ability to provide management with expert consulting services, and to help stakeholders resolve dependencies and conflicts.
• You have very good presentation skills. You build convincing presentations and story lines.
• You are proficient in at least two of French, Dutch or English languages. You can at least passively understand your team members in their native language.
What we have to offer
Our offer
You will benefit from our Smart Working programme, giving you flexibility in terms of workplace (work everywhere, homeworking) and time management.
Our impact
As a company, we implement concrete and sustainable solutions to reduce our environmental footprint, such as saving paper and resources, recycling our waste, encouraging the use of green transport, buildings that are designed and managed to limit our impact, etc.
Your prospects
Throughout your career at BNP Paribas Fortis, you will benefit from the personal support of a career advisor who will help you define your skills and prospects for the future.
Let's share our values:
At BNP Paribas Fortis, we surround ourselves with talented individuals, regardless of their gender or gender identity, age, origin, sexual orientation, disability… And to ensure equal opportunities for everyone, regardless of their personal or family obligations, our full-time job offers are also open to part-time, at 80 or 90%.
Ready to seize this opportunity?
We will make our first selection based on your CV and cover letter. We will contact you if your profile matches our offer.
Good luck!
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