B2B Portfolio Architect

About the role

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.

About you

Your qualifications:

• 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.
• Autonomy.