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Sopra Steria

IT consulting, digital services, and transformation

Solution Architect - Cloud

Technology & Systems ConsultingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCourbevoie, FranceNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bac+5 education from an engineering school, university, or equivalent.
  • Five to ten years of experience in solution architecture, application architecture, or information-systems transformations.
  • Significant experience on information-systems modernization or transformation programs.
  • A strong understanding of enterprise architecture and digital transformation.
  • Experience in solution architecture, application modernization, information-systems modernization, integration architecture, and information-systems master plans.
  • Experience across several of these areas is appreciated: cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP; API management; microservices; event-driven architectures; data and analytics platforms; cybersecurity; artificial intelligence and agentic architectures; SaaS solutions such as ServiceNow and Salesforce; DevOps, continuous integration and continuous delivery, and agentic software development life cycle.
  • Strong analytical and synthesis abilities.
  • A systemic perspective and ability to take a high-level view.
  • Ability to interact effectively with business and IT stakeholders.
  • Technological curiosity and an innovative mindset.
  • Ability to bring people together and influence decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Frame and design digital enablers, including APIs, events, agentic artificial intelligence, and cloud.
  • Translate business needs and strategic challenges into robust, secure, and scalable architectures.
  • Support large project teams in designing target application and technical architectures for major client transformations.
  • Define and challenge impactful architecture scenarios.
  • Present and advocate architecture choices to project teams, stakeholders, and business and IT sponsors.
  • Ensure solution consistency with information-systems principles and current best practices.
  • Support development teams in transforming the software development life cycle with artificial intelligence.
  • Lead the roadmap for major clients’ IT architecture enablers and architecture runway.
  • Contribute to information-systems master plans and transformation roadmaps aligned with clients’ sovereignty challenges.
  • Help define target architectures and modernization paths in response to transformation and operational-performance challenges.
  • Advise IT departments on cloud, data, artificial intelligence, API, and application modernization.
  • Conduct strategic audits, framing studies, and impact analyses for client IT departments.
  • Support adoption of new uses of data, artificial intelligence, and agentic artificial intelligence.
  • Translate business challenges into concrete, actionable, and sustainable architecture directions.
  • Design cloud-native, API-first, and microservices architectures.
  • Promote data flows, event-driven architectures, and modern integration models.
  • Incorporate sovereignty, security, performance, resilience, and operability considerations from the design stage.
  • Identify opportunities to rationalize, optimize, and industrialize application portfolios.
  • Contribute to exploration of next-generation digital architectures, including agentic software development life cycle, quantum computing, data spaces, and digital identity wallets.
  • Support project teams with complex issues.
  • Participate in architecture committees and governance forums.
  • Contribute to architecture standards, patterns, and best practices.
  • Monitor technological developments and emerging architecture patterns.

Desired Qualifications

  • Progressively develop expertise in industrial-scale solution architecture; cloud, data, and artificial-intelligence transformations; information-systems modernization and transformation; information-systems master plans and technology roadmaps; and emerging technologies addressing major clients’ strategic challenges.

About the Company

Sopra Steria

IT consulting, digital services, and transformation

Sopra Steria provides consulting, digital services and solutions to help large organizations transform their business through technology. Its offerings cover strategy, systems integration, cloud, cyber security, software development, and managed services, designed to be delivered end to end—from assessing needs and designing a plan to implementing and operating IT systems. The company combines deep knowledge of many industries with a collaborative approach to tailor projects to each client and to deliver measurable, sustainable improvements in performance. Differentiators include its European scale (about 51,000 employees across roughly 30 countries), broad scope—from strategy to operation—and emphasis on practical outcomes that help clients stay competitive. The group’s goal is to put digital to work for its clients in a way that creates a positive, more productive future for all stakeholders.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1968

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