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Atradius

The Atradius Group provides trade credit insurance, surety and collections services worldwide, and has a presence through 160 offices in 52 countries. The products offered by Atradius protect companies around the world against the default risks associated with selling goods and services on credit.

At Atradius, Enterprise Architecture is divided in several domains. “Application and Integration” is a technical domain, and “Shared Components” is a business domain on its own. Atradius is looking for an Enterprise Architect to cover both of them.

You will report directly to the Chief Enterprise Architect. For the domains that you own, your main responsibilities will be to develop and maintain the respective visions, roadmaps, and high-level architectures, in alignment with the corresponding Asset Owners (from ITS) and Product Owners (from the Business) and their budget plans.

You will work closely with many other key stakeholders from different domains. They are architects, but also senior, program and project managers or business members.

Job Description

In your role you will be supporting several teams: 

  • The Enterprise Architecture team,
  • The Application and Integration domain’s team, being a mix of Enterprise Architects, solution architects and/or lead engineers,
  • The ‘’Shared Components’’ domain’s teams,
  • The Cloud Competence Centre (CCC) mandated to implement Atradius Cloud Strategy

In the Enterprise Architecture team, your main role is to maintain and improve the Reference Architecture of the domains you own. The Atradius Reference Architecture is based on a “Service and API’s” architecture. You will validate that the “Application and Integration” Architecture’s choices and solutions are appropriate and used in line with the Reference Architecture. Or alternatively that the Reference Architecture gets updated in line with the latest need for change. 

Within the ‘’Shared Components’’ architecture domain, you will align with Business and IT stakeholders. You will help them to articulate and to document clearly their ambitions for change and transformation. Your responsibility will be to take care of the overall architecture direction, with a focus on reducing technology debt. You will make sure that projects and domains are building solutions in the right way on premise or in Azure. It will require to be aligned with the backlogs and plans defined by the different technical platform’s Asset Owners. You will adjust the reference architecture accordingly to the feedback received when necessary.

In addition, you will be working with the Infrastructure teams and the Cloud Competency Centre team (CCC). With them you will select and support the appropriate applications or API’s to be migrated to Azure landing zones. You will make sure that projects and domain teams will build, migrate, and maintain their architecture in the right way on premise, or in Azure by following Cloud Native principles and the CCC standards.

Main responsibilities

Act as an Enterprise Architect:

  • Work with the application architecture teams to improve and apply the Atradius reference architecture, managing capabilities, adding standards and design patterns into your domain(s).
  • Support the creation and maintenance of high-level capability and technology roadmaps for use in strategic planning, including cost estimates.
  • Own not only your domain(s) and platform’s strategies, but also identify impacts and dependencies with other initiatives, programs and strategies. 
  • Create enterprise, and high-level architectures for the “Application and Integration” technical architecture domain, as for the ’Shared Components’’ business domain.
  • Make sure the “As Is” architecture and the “To Be” are well defined, described, documented and shared, including references to capabilities, standards, design patterns, blueprints and current documentation. 
  • The “To Be” Architecture must be unambiguous and easily identifiable based on your experience and the various Atradius Strategies. You must provide practical and realistic directions.
  • Own, lead, and prioritize the Application and Integration architecture backlogs.

Support your stakeholders and be part of the delivery teams

  • Steer IT stakeholders about application architecture by closely cooperating with them.
  • Guide (Devops) teams and external partners on following and implementing the reference architectures. You must become a part of the delivery teams and not just being an outsider.
  • Work with the Infrastructure teams to get their trust and collaboration, so they will implement the architectures and technologies recommended.

Support Atradius’ Cloud Journey

  • Facilitate and enable Atradius Cloud Strategy, supporting and enabling landing and migration of applications to Azure. 
  • Work with the Cloud Competency Centre, making sure that relevant Application policies and standards are aligned and implemented correctly in Azure.

Eligibility Requirements

General:

  • Higher / University level IT education.
  • The successful applicant will occasionally be required to travel (mainly Western Europe) for short periods of time, as and when the need arises.
  • Fluency to a high degree in English is required, but additional language skills (in particular Spanish) will also be valuable.

Enterprise Architecture:

  • Enterprise Architecture Experience, especially using Archimate language and EA Sparx.
  • Experience of working on application architecture for large, multi-site and multi-business unit organizations.
  • Previous responsibilities in driving enterprise and solution architectures, by guiding involved teams and implementation parties.
  • Having an interested eye in the market trends and technologies.

Application & Integration Architecture:

  • Experience of building and delivering API and Integration strategies, keeping stakeholders involved and supportive.
  • Experience of working on MACH architecture and modern integration platforms.
  • Hands on experience of defining and building API and Integration platforms, in alignment with involved engineers and implementation parties.
  • Demonstrable knowledge of application architecture, including various application platform solutions such as process orchestration, caching, event processing, etc.
  • Demonstrable understanding of:
  • Application architectures such as API’s, domain driven design, micro services, event driven architectures, etc.
  • Integration architecture such as orchestration, ESB, SOA, API-management, BPM and Batch.
  • Strong knowledge and preferably hands on experience with the following technologies or frameworks: Container orchestration (Openshift, AKS), Middleware (Spring Boot, Node JS), BPMN/DMN (Camunda), API design and documentation (Apiary, Swagger), API platform (Oracle API Gateway, Azure API Management), Events (Kafka, Azure Event Hub), Ajax (Oracle Jet, ReactJS), Logging and monitoring (ELK and Azure). 

Cloud Architecture:

  • Good understanding of cloud ready and cloud native architectures, especially in Azure.
  • Experience with applications migration to Cloud, considering the consequences on Application architecture.

Desired Personal Attributes

  • A finisher; a person who is able to initiate and manage a course of action through to its completion, from end to end.
  • To be able to make decisions, but also to articulate, to communicate or to defend them in front of various stakeholders.
  • Pragmatic and realistic, provide meaningful, acceptable practical solutions.
  • High standards of professional integrity under pressure.
  • To be Resilient; the Business’ transformative period will be especially challenging for Atradius’ IT department and individuals. Employees need the ability to absorb temporarily workload and disappointments, until reaching success.
  • Professional an eloquent communicator; Strong communication and influencing skills, being able to translate complex aspects into relevant and easily comprehensible communications. Coming across as a credible expert in your field and inspiring confidence at all levels in the validity of your advices.
  • An avid learner with can-do attitude, not afraid to continuously extend his knowledge.
  • Comfortable and effective working autonomously, without constant supervision.

What do we offer?

  • A dynamic, international and challenging work environment
  • Training and support to reach your full potential including the opportunity for continuous professional development
  • Attractive terms and conditions, including competitive salary, pension package and a range of flexible benefits and rewards
  • Challenging tasks with individual development and training opportunities

Equal opportunities for all

The success of our organisation stands with the quality of our people and the ideas they have. Insights and innovative solutions for our customers are the result of an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. That is why diversity is extremely important to Atradius. To ensure that all colleagues within Atradius can develop their qualities, we promote an inclusive culture in which everyone feels involved and valued. We encourage and welcome everyone to apply to our positions.

Do you have any questions about our offer?

Cleo Glerum, Human Resources, is available by e-mail at Cleo.Glerum@atradius.com.

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Atradius is a global provider of credit insurance, bond and surety, collections and information services, with a strategic presence in over 50 countries. The products offered by Atradius protect companies around the world against the default risks associated with selling goods and services on credit. Atradius is a member of Grupo Catalana Occidente (GCO.MC), one of the largest insurers in Spain and one of the largest credit insurers in the world. 

You can find further information on our website: https://group.atradius.com

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