Job description
Senior Solution Architect
Location: Strasbourg, France (Hybrid)Contract Type: Long-term freelance / contract
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect to lead the design and implementation of enterprise-grade Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions within a large-scale, complex IT environment. The successful candidate will be responsible for architecting integration tiers, defining service orchestration processes, and ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and best practices.Key Responsibilities
- Design and maintain Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) tiers and integration layers.
- Participate in technical design sessions and provide architectural guidance to development teams.
- Define and model business processes to support orchestration of web services (BPEL).
- Draft and review use cases for new system developments and enhancements.
- Collaborate with cross-functional technical and functional teams to ensure effective solution delivery.
- Apply established software development methodologies and architectural standards.
- Ensure proper configuration, release, and version management of architectural artifacts.
- Implement SOA design patterns including message routing, transformation, filtering, sequencing, and guaranteed delivery.
- Define architecture standards for security, logging, auditing, policy management, and performance monitoring.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Minimum 9 years of professional IT experience.
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience in SOA platform architecture and development.
- Strong expertise in Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and integration tier architecture.
- Proven experience with BPEL and business process orchestration.
- Solid knowledge of Web Services technologies (SOAP, WSDL, XML/XSL).
- Strong background in J2EE middleware technologies.
- Experience working within Linux, UNIX, or AIX enterprise environments.
- Strong understanding of integration patterns and middleware design principles.
- Experience defining service performance monitoring, tuning, and KPI frameworks.
- Good understanding of network and system architecture principles.
Technical Skills
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
- BPEL / Business Process Orchestration
- SOAP, WSDL, XML/XSL
- J2EE / Middleware Technologies
- UML, JDBC, SQL
- Service Design Best Practices
- Security & Policy Management in Integration Architectures
