Banque Centrale du Luxembourg
Banque Centrale du Luxembourg
IT entreprise architect
The Banque centrale du Luxembourg (BCL), member of the Eurosystem, is currently seeking to recruit for its IT Department an:
IT ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT (m/f/d) - Career: A1
Full time
Your mission:
Within the IT department, the IT Enterprise Architect will guarantee the coherent and sustainable development of the architecture of the entire information system, including infrastructure and applications, in line with the bank's strategy, business needs, enterprise architecture and technological developments.
Your responsibilities:
- Definition and maintenance of IT architecture norms, principles and standards, in collaboration with the bank's other architects (enterprise architects, security architects, technical architects, solutions architects);
- Analysis of the enterprise IT architecture, definition of the reference architecture and production of regular recommendations for the IT architecture evolution;
- Definition of the implementation roadmap for the reference architecture;
- Active contribution to the choice of IT technologies and solutions (applications, infrastructure, etc.) in terms of evaluation, design and implementation, ensuring that they fit into the Information System architecture, in accordance with the principles adopted;
- Active participation in the architecture committee, to ensure compliance with the company's IT architecture standards, and to develop them where necessary;
- Coordination of efforts to build and optimise the IT architecture;
- Facilitate the transfer of knowledge, experience and best practices within the IT teams with regards to IT architecture, and promote the defined orientations, in collaboration with the other architects;
- Collaboration with internal business representatives, IT teams and project teams;
- Technology watch;
- Anticipation of technology obsolescence and risks related to some technologies or solutions;
- Contribute to the definition of the technology strategy: choices, orientations, optimisation, rationalisation, etc.
Your profile:
- Master’s degree in IT, in engineering or an equivalent Master’s degree demonstrating 5 years of studies ;
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in IT, ideally in the fields of Enterprise architecture and IT architecture;
- Fluent in English and French; knowledge of the German and/or Luxembourgish languages would be a distinctive advantage;
- Skills in IT architecture design (applications, infrastructure) and expertise with IT architecture documentation tools and techniques (e.g. mapping, data flow modeling, UML diagrams);
- Experience as a cross-functional enterprise IT architect, including defining standards, making recommendations to optimise the IT architecture, reviewing architecture designs and managing architecture evolution risks;
- Experience in the facilitation of working groups/communities of IT and business experts around architecture-related topics;
- Knowledge of operating systems (Windows, Unix/Linux), telecoms networks, databases and storage solutions;
- Knowledge of virtualisation technologies and tools;
- Knowledge of business and application architectures;
- Ideally, knowledge of a central bank's activities;
- Advanced analytical skills and ability to synthesise;
- Good communication skills;
- Knowledge of enterprise architecture best practices (e.g. TOGAF, Zachman, Kotusev);
- Certification and/or specialised training in enterprise architecture (optional).