Enterprise Architect - Solutions & Expertise - Toulouse

About the company

Sopra Steria, a major player in Tech in Europe, with 51,000 employees in nearly 30 countries, is recognized for its consulting, services, and digital solutions activities. It helps its clients lead their digital transformation and achieve concrete and lasting benefits. The Group provides a global response to the competitiveness challenges of large companies and organizations, by combining deep knowledge of business sectors and technologies with a collaborative approach. Sopra Steria places people at the heart of its action and is committed to its clients to make the most of digital to build a positive future. In 2025, the Group achieved a turnover of 5.6 billion euros.

The Solutions & Expertise Business Line of Sopra Steria brings together nearly 350 employees in France, within teams distributed across the territory. It gathers expertise centers and specialists working on solution deployment projects, technological integration, and high value-added support: cloud, data, cybersecurity, business solutions, and digital platforms. The teams provide cross-functional expertise in service of our clients' strategic projects.

Your tasks

You will join the Solutions & Expertise Business Line as an Enterprise Architect.

Your role and missions

• Define and drive the enterprise architecture strategy

You define and maintain the vision, principles, standards, and target architectures of the company, aligning technological investments and transformation initiatives with the business strategy. You develop and update roadmaps covering business capabilities, applications, data, infrastructure, and technological evolution, and you drive information system modernization and digital transformation initiatives.

• Ensure architecture governance and decision-making

You lead or participate in enterprise architecture governance bodies and architecture review committees. You evaluate strategic technological decisions, guarantee their consistency across programs and projects, review and validate solution architectures to ensure compliance with company standards. You define architecture policies, reference architectures, and decision frameworks.

• Align business and IT

You collaborate with business managers to understand strategic objectives and translate them into architecture roadmaps. You facilitate the evolution of business capabilities and operating models, identify opportunities for optimization, innovation, automation, and business value creation, and you contribute to portfolio management and investment prioritization.

• Drive enterprise transformation

You drive the architecture activities of large-scale business and IT transformation programs. You evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends, manage risks, dependencies, assumptions, and strategic decisions related to enterprise architecture, and you promote architecture best practices throughout the organization.

• Governance, risk, and compliance

You guarantee compliance with company standards, security policies, regulatory requirements, and data governance principles. You contribute to the cybersecurity strategy and architecture supervision, support audit activities, and ensure architecture compliance across all initiatives. You monitor key performance and architecture maturity indicators.

Requirements

• You have more than 15 years of experience in IT and architecture professions, including significant experience in enterprise architecture leadership roles.

• You master enterprise architecture frameworks and practices: TOGAF, business, application, data, technological, and security architecture, design of service-oriented operating models (SOA), business capability mapping, and information system integration and modernization strategies.

• You have strong skills in data architecture and digital architecture: data governance and architecture frameworks, Master Data Management (MDM), data quality and information lifecycle management, analytics, artificial intelligence, and enterprise data platforms.

• You are recognized for your mastery of modeling and documentation: ArchiMate modeling, capability mapping and enterprise architecture landscapes, strategic maps, and transformation roadmaps.

• You use structured methods on a daily basis: TOGAF enterprise architecture, SAFe, agile at scale methods, and architecture governance methods.

• You possess strategic thinking and are comfortable with executives, with strong leadership and influence capabilities without hierarchical authority.

• You demonstrate excellent stakeholder management at the executive level, a strong ability to link business strategy to technological execution, as well as proven skills in communication, facilitation, and negotiation.

• You possess strong analytical and synthesis skills, ease in decision-making and risk management, and are capable of driving large-scale transformation initiatives.

• You hold a Master's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent. Certifications in enterprise architecture and governance methods are highly appreciated.

• You have excellent written and oral communication skills, and professional proficiency in English, both written and spoken.

Requirements

What we offer

The advantages of joining us

• A teleworking agreement to telework up to 2 days per week depending on your missions.
• An attractive benefits package: health insurance, CSE, meal vouchers, profit-sharing, vacation and referral bonuses.
• Multiple career opportunities: more than 30 job families, as many gateways to imagine together.
• Several hundred training courses accessible autonomously from the mobile app with Sopra Steria Academy.
• The opportunity to join the Tech'Me UP collective (training, conferences, monitoring, and much more...).

Other

An inclusive and committed employer, our company works every day to fight all forms of discrimination and promote a respectful working environment. This is why, committed to diversity and inclusion, we encourage all applications and all profiles.