B2B Portfolio Architect

Orange Business is a network and digital integrator that understands the entire value chain of the digital world freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that shape their business. Every day you will collaborate with a team dedicated to providing consistent sustainable global solutions no matter where our customers operate. With over 30000 employees across Asia the Americas Africa and Europe we offer a dynamic environment to develop and perfect your skills in a field filled with exciting challenges and opportunities.

Your missions

Your main missions:

Lead the architecture within the I Use I need Help SAFe Portfolio in sync with multiple teams from Customer Experience Operations Marketing Global Process IT etc.
Ensure architectural consistency and alignment with enterprise-wide architecture strategies.
Define the Portfolio functional software and technical IT strategy & architecture.
Design a future-ready cost-efficient IT with business & IT teams.

Your main activities

You operate in a context of large-scaled agility. You provide architectural guidance and governance at the Portfolio level ensuring alignment with SAFe practices and principles:
You manage architecture demands within your Portfolio
You collaborate with Enterprise Architects (at Orange Business level) to ensure that Portfolio-specific architectures fit within the broader architecture framework and Orange Business strategy.
You work closely with Solution Architects & Customer Architects to ensure each solution is aligned with the overall Portfolio roadmap and business goals.
You animate a System Architects (from Delivery Value Streams) circle within your Portfolio.
You define and maintain the Portfolio target architecture aligned with business objectives.
You lead the efforts for building the Architecture runway.
You lead architecture initiatives within the Portfolio with a focus on seamless integration across systems and services.
You act as the Business Owner for Enablers EPICs.
You ensure Portfolio architecture is consistent with enterprise-wide architecture strategies and complies with architecture standards and best practices.
You drive continuous improvement of the Portfolio architecture adapting to changes in technology and business requirements.
You facilitate cross-Portfolios collaboration with other Portfolio architects ensuring that shared services data and technologies are leveraged effectively across Portfolios.
You bring your knowledge about external frameworks standards and guidelines (TMF Open Digital Architecture ).
You establish strategies for data architecture to uphold the precision consistency and security.
You propose solutions to enhance the efficiency of systems cut costs and elevate the customer & Orange employee experience.
You describe the transformation steps from the as-is architecture situation towards the target architecture to be reached.
You develop and uphold architectural documentation.
You keep abreast of emerging technologies and industry developments.

15 years total experience with 10 relevant experience.
Excellent client facing communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively with technical teams and business stakeholders.
Proven ability to manage architecture (functional software & technical) in a large scaled agile environment.
Strong experience with SAFe framework and Portfolio-level architecture. SAFe for Architect certified.
Understanding of B2B Telecommunications products and processes: proven experience with industry frameworks like TM Forum Open Digital Architecture (ODA) and telecom-specific technologies is a plus.
Very good knowledge of ITIL processes for Operations Support Systems: Case Management Incident/Problem Management Change Management Knowledge Management Maintenance Operations Management Scheduled works Intervention Management Customer & Orange employee reporting Observability and Monitoring.
Knowledge of following editors solutions: Service Now Splunk Ciena UAA.
Knowledge of automation engine for change network as code net dev environment in a zero-touch-access approach.
Familiarity with modern architecture patterns cloud technologies and enterprise integration approaches.
Proven experience with architecture governance on complex projects / programs including key design decisions.
Expertise in architectural frameworks such as TOGAF Zachman or similar is a plus.
Working experience with architecture tools.
Problem-solving skills.

Your main missions:

• Design the IT of tomorrow with business & IS teams.
• the functional software and technical IS strategy & architecture.