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SOMFY Group

Builds motors and connected controls for homes and buildings

Enterprise Architect

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
Master's
Cluses, France+1 moreMore locations: Annecy, France
HybridTwo days of remote work per week on average (90 days per year) after onboarding.
IT Operations

About the job

Requirements
  • A Bac+5 engineering-school diploma or a Master's degree in information systems is required.
  • Experience in IT architecture in complex, multi-business contexts is required.
  • A strategic, business-oriented perspective and the ability to translate business priorities into IT and digital roadmaps and projects are required.
  • Understanding of enterprise architecture and information-system urbanization, technical fundamentals, and the ability to relate these to project roadmaps is required.
  • Knowledge of architecture repositories, including principles, standards, maps, and urbanization models, is required.
  • The ability to analyze cross-functional impacts, assess overall impacts, and make trade-offs is required.
  • Influencing leadership, persuasion, and the ability to explain complex technical topics clearly are required.
  • Systems thinking and strong synthesis skills are required.
  • Fluent English is required.
Responsibilities
  • Define, maintain, and evolve architecture principles, information-system norms and standards, the information-system map, and the enterprise architecture repository.
  • Analyze the impact of new projects and solutions on the existing information system.
  • Contribute to major projects' technology decisions and steer information-system urbanization and application-evolution roadmaps.
  • Ensure compliance with architecture standards, manage exceptions, and assess their impacts.
  • Facilitate architecture committees and actively participate in project committees.
  • Propose architecture changes that address interoperability, security, resilience, scalability, performance, and cost control.
  • Ensure new information-system solutions are integrated coherently, securely, and sustainably.
  • Promote an architecture and innovation culture across the company; continuously monitor technology developments and promote innovative solutions suited to the company.
  • Identify transformation opportunities enabled by new technologies.
  • Help reduce time to market through more agile and scalable architectures.
  • Facilitate the adoption of new models, including cloud, platforms, services, and data.
  • Communicate and disseminate architecture principles and information-system standards.
  • Support and train information-system and business teams.
  • Facilitate the transfer of knowledge, best practices, and lessons learned.
  • Facilitate or contribute to information-systems architect communities.

About the company

SOMFY Group designs and manufactures motors, controls, and connected systems for openings and closures in homes and buildings. Its products automate shutters, blinds, curtains, gates, garage doors, and other access points, combining mechanical movement with electronic controls. The group serves manufacturers, installers, building professionals, and household users through an international network of brands, production sites, and distribution operations. Its connected-home offering lets occupants coordinate equipment, adjust living conditions, and manage access or security from digital interfaces. Founded in 1969, SOMFY Group is headquartered in Cluses, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Cluses, France

Founded

1969

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