Lead Architect

• - Define the digital architecture vision and roadmap for enterprise and city-scale smart technology programs.
• - Align architecture strategy with business objectives, digital transformation goals, and regulatory frameworks.
• - Identify emerging technologies and assess their fit within the current architecture or for future investments.

• - Lead the architecture office for developing the Design (HLD & LLD) and integrate solutions across smart city verticals: smart mobility, public safety, e-governance, energy management, smart buildings, and citizen engagement platforms.
• - Architect horizontal smart city platforms including IoT middleware, urban data lakes, API gateways, and AI/ML engines.
• - Collaborate with urban planning, city operations, and policy stakeholders to ensure IT infrastructure aligns with physical city design.

• - Develop scalable, secure architectures leveraging cloud-native and hybrid cloud strategies.
• - Lead enterprise-wide cloud adoption, migration planning, containerization, and cloud operations across Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• - Define cloud governance, cost optimization models, multitenancy, disaster recovery, and DevSecOps pipelines.

• - Design and oversee infrastructure layers including networking (SD-WAN, 5G, IPv6), compute, storage, cybersecurity, and edge computing.
• - Guide data center modernization, virtualization, and platform integration projects.
• - Collaborate with solution integrators, OEMs, and telcos on infrastructure implementation and integration.

• - Define enterprise integration patterns (ESB, microservices, APIs) and data governance models.
• - Architect city-wide data platforms incorporating real-time data ingestion, analytics, visualization, and reporting tools.
• - Ensure interoperability between legacy systems and modern cloud-native environments.

• - Establish and enforce architectural governance frameworks, ensuring all solutions are compliant with national standards.
• - Define and review security architecture, threat modeling, and identity & access management (IAM) policies.
• - Conduct design reviews, audits, and technology assessments.

• - Collaborate with project and program managers to align architecture with delivery timelines and milestones.
• - Provide architectural input during bid proposals, solution's phases, and customer presentations.
• - Engage with CIOs, CTOs, to define solution scope, ROI, and technical strategy.

• - Cloud-native architecture (Kubernetes, containers, microservices).
• - Smart city frameworks (FIWARE, NGSI-LD, TM Forum).
• - IoT protocols (MQTT, CoAP), platform integration, and real-time analytics.
• - Cybersecurity architecture (zero trust, PKI, SIEM).
• - Data architecture and analytics (big data, AI/ML, GIS).

• - Visionary thinking and technology foresight.
• - Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• - Strategic planning, documentation, and executive reporting.
• - Leadership and mentoring of technical teams.
• - High adaptability in multicultural and multi-vendor environments.

• - Architecture blueprints and solution documents.
• - Technology roadmaps and cloud transformation plans.
• - Smart city integration frameworks and governance policies.
• - RFP responses, solution presentations, and stakeholder workshops.

• Global opportunities: Work in multi-national teams with the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and customers from all over the world
• Flexible work environment: Flexible working hours and possibility to combine work from office and home (hybrid ways of working)
• Professional development: training programs and upskilling/re-skilling opportunities
• Career growth: Internal growth and mobility opportunities within Orange
• Caring and daring culture: health and well-being programs and benefits, diversity & inclusion initiatives, CSR and employee connect events
• Reward programs: Employee Referral Program, Change Maker Awards

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