Solution Architect - M/F
🦸♂️ Team Presentation Devoteam Nantes, with its 160 employees, is a key player in digital transformation in the Nantes region. Our team of expert consultants supports companies in achieving their most ambitious technological projects, leveraging our expertise in cloud & DevOps, cybersecurity, data / IA, project management, and agile development. Devoteam Innovative Technology supports companies in their digital transformation by relying on the most innovative technological levers such as cloud, artificial intelligence, or cybersecurity. Our ambition: to help organizations optimize their business processes and strengthen their competitiveness through tailor-made solutions. We combine technological expertise, rigor in project management, and change management to ensure effective and sustainable adoption of new technologies. To contribute to these transformations and strengthen a major account client setup, we are looking for a Solution Architect in Nantes.
💪 Your Missions Integrated within our Solution Architecture Competence Center (CDC), you will evolve in a stimulating and hybrid (On-Premise and Cloud) multi-project environment. Your role will be to design robust, scalable, and secure technical architectures, ensuring a smooth transition between our existing systems and our Cloud-Native targets. Your responsibilities will revolve around 4 main pillars:
- Architecture Conception and Design
Translate functional requirements and business needs (collected from the AMOA) into target technical solutions and evolution trajectories.
Write and formalize architecture deliverables: architecture dossiers (DA), urbanized logical and technical architecture diagrams (HLD, LLD, C4 diagrams), Solution Design Documents, and architecture decision records (ADR).
Design reusable architecture patterns (building blocks) and present them for validation in committee (Architecture Review Board).
- Modernization, Cloud and Data
Support digital transformation and the industrialization of environments (migration of legacy solutions to the Cloud, containers/Kubernetes/OpenShift).
Contribute to modern engineering: implementation of GitOps practices (ArgoCD, Tekton), security policies (RBAC, NetworkPolicy, Vault), and FinOps/Observability approaches.
Define the company's Data architecture patterns (Event Sourcing/CQRS, Lakehouse type architectures, multidimensional modeling, data governance).
- Governance, Consulting and Transversal Collaboration
Act as a trusted advisor to project teams (MOE) to guide their technological choices and flow integration (APIs, messages, file transfers).
Collaborate transversally with all stakeholders (enterprise architects for global consistency, Ops teams for operational deployment, business and technical departments).
Guarantee the performance, security, and compliance of delivered solutions (Well-Architected principles, cybersecurity, GDPR).
- Animation and Leadership
Lead transversal subjects known as "Foundation" within the architecture teams (AUR).
Contribute to the dynamics of the Competence Center (CDC) and ensure, depending on your seniority, a mentoring or Team Leadership role.
🎯 Your assets to join us Essential Skills (Required Mastery/Expertise) Architecture and Technical Culture Architecture Design: Proven mastery of software architecture principles, modularization, and service-oriented architectures (microservices, APIs, Event-Driven).
Dev & Application Culture: Excellent understanding of modern application architectures (Web & Mobile) in order to engage on equal footing with development teams (MOE).
Infrastructure, Cloud & Hybrid Environment Cloud & Containers: Mastery of PaaS environments (OpenShift / Kubernetes) and Cloud services (Azure).
Systems & Storage: Solid skills in operating systems (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and knowledge of On-Premise infrastructures (IaaS, hardware and storage architectures).
Integration, Flows & Data Exchange Patterns: Mastery of exchange flows, API Management (APIM), message buses (Kafka), and mediation (NiFi). Knowledge of traditional file transfer protocols (CFT/SFTP).
Data Management: Good knowledge of relational SGBD (Oracle Exadata, PostgreSQL, MSSQL) and familiarity with modern Data architecture concepts (Lakehouse/Databricks, CQRS/Event Sourcing).
DevOps, GitOps & Security Modern Practices: Mastery of GitOps approaches (ArgoCD, Tekton) and CI/CD orchestrators (GitLab CI, Jenkins).
Architecture Security: Expertise in securing flows (VLAN, Egress/Ingress Policies, Proxy, WAF), secrets management (Vault), and identity federation concepts (SAML/OIDC).
Appreciated Skills (The "pluses") Data & IA: Notions of integrating IA services (LLM, RAG, Langchain) and vector databases (PG Vector) or NoSQL (ElasticSearch, Redis).
Data Governance: Experience in data governance (MDM Semarchy, data dictionary).
Monitoring: Knowledge of monitoring tools, log centralization, and metrics (Prometheus, Grafana).
Functional Knowledge: An affinity or experience in transversal domains (Finance, HR, Real Estate, Logistics, Maintenance).
🙋♂️ Why join us? We are an AI-Driven Company, partner to the largest technological partners (Google, AWS, Microsoft, ServiceNow,…) and composed of a large collective of experts (50 expertise tribes). With 75% of our employees certified, including 100% on GenAI, Devoteam establishes itself as a Learning Company, where continuous learning is at the heart of our DNA. 🤝 How does the recruitment process work at Devoteam? It consists of 2 to 3 interviews:
- Talent Acquisition Interview: the objective is to review your skills, your English level, and validate your motivations
- Tech & Business Interview: this interview aims to deepen your technical skills and verify their suitability with our needs during an exchange with a business expert
- Leadership Interview: it allows for the evaluation of your potential, your ambitions, and to consider your evolution within Devoteam.
We prioritize at least one in-person interview. A reference check is requested and, depending on your profile, tests (technical, English, personality...) may be sent to you.
If your application is selected, we will send you a proposal presenting the hiring conditions. Upon acceptance, the employment contract is formalized. The Devoteam Group works for equal opportunity, for the promotion of its female and male employees based on merit, and actively fights against all forms of discrimination. We are convinced that diversity contributes to the creativity, dynamism, and excellence of our organization. Each application is therefore considered independently of any discriminatory criterion.