Entreprise Architect

Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients. Want to help us make a difference? Using plant-based resources, we collaborate with our customers and partners to imagine and offer ingredients to better feed people and treat patients. Each of our ingredients responds to unique and essential needs, and they enable healthier lifestyles. To support this transformation, the Digital and IT department with over 300 internal and contracted staff is looking for an experienced Enterprise Architect to join its Strategy and Architecture office comprising of 8 FTEs. The Rôle The Enterprise Architect will play a critical role in enabling business and IT leaders to make informed investment decisions that balance current operational demands, disruptions, and opportunities with the long-term strategic vision of the organization. Your main accountabilities will be: - Align the IT strategy with the business strategy.- Provides overall direction, guidance, and definition of IT architecture to effectively support the corporate business strategy.- Build and maintain the architecture vision and transformation trajectory.- Make sustainable choices, guaranteeing the evolution of the information system.- Build a more integrated, simplified, and optimized information system.- Defines, explains, and advocates technology strategy.- Develops and communicates architectural policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.- Promotes the EA process, outcomes, and results to the organization and senior leadership.- Disseminate good architecture practices and promote cross-functional collaboration.- Works on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains.- Works with business leaders to understand business requirements and help them understand how technology tradeoffs influence strategy.- Collaborates with project management and IT leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with project goals and requirements.- Consults with project teams to fit projects to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.- Develops a communication plan for architecture at the enterprise level.- Directs the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry, and market trends.- Ensures recommendations are based on business relevance, appropriate timing, and deployment. What we will love about you: First of all, you have a strong presentation skills (written and oral) and interpersonal skills. Strong analytical & critical thinking skills and the Ability to communicate, influence and persuade peers and leadership. And, you have ability to present ideas in user-friendly language and to understand the long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives of situations Additionally, you have knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture, business re-engineering principles and processes, and basic knowledge of financial models and budgeting. And knowledge of agile methodologies But also: - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, system analysis, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.- 8+ or more years of IT and business/industry work experience including architecture design and deployment, systems lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning and operations.- Experience in multiple, large, cross-functional teams or projects, and influencing key stakeholders and knowledge of manufacturing process- French and English fluent- - Certification in TOGAF and significant experience in enterprise architecture- Experience in reuse and urbanization automation and in integration and/or architecture in heterogeneous technical environments- Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.- Ability to conduct cross-functional analyses in a dynamic environment and work on several topics in parallel with different teams- Knowledge and/or certification as AWS or Azure solution architect- Data modeling and information classification expertise at the enterprise level. What will you love about us?- Opportunities to learn and develop in an entrepreneurial environment that encourages innovation.- Our internal mobility policy- Benefits such as: RTT, Time Savings Account, Incentives- The possibility of combining professional and personal life through telecommuting and organizational flexibility.- And for all, access to an external platform of listening by professionals. Roquette is proud to be a global company where you can find personal and professional growth through multiple diverse experiences. Roquette believes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion must be woven into everything we do, from the products we make, through the relationships we build with our partners, and most importantly within the teams we create and how we interact together. As we continue to grow, Roque