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You will define the target architecture, guide Technical Leaders and development squads, and ensure that technical decisions remain aligned with product objectives, enterprise standards, and cloud engineering principles.\nWorking across the Agile Release Train, you will facilitate alignment between Product Management, Product Owners, Technical Leaders, DevOps, Security, Operations, and fellow architects.\nYou will anticipate architectural risks and ensure that scalability, performance, security, resilience, operability, maintainability, and cost efficiency are considered throughout the solution lifecycle.\nYour Missions\nArchitecture Vision and Direction\nDefine and communicate the target solution and cloud architecture.\nEstablish architecture principles, standards, patterns and technical guardrails.\nMaintain an architecture evolution roadmap aligned with product strategy and business priorities.\nEnsure consistency between short-term delivery decisions and the long-term architecture vision.\nContribute to the architecture runway required to support upcoming business capabilities.\nBusiness and Technology Alignment\nTranslate business needs, product capabilities and non-functional requirements into appropriate solution designs.\nWork with Product Management, Business Analysts and Product Owners to assess the architectural impact and feasibility of product initiatives.\nExplain architecture choices, constraints, risks and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nSupport decision-making by presenting solution options and their consequences in terms of value, risk, cost and sustainability.\nEnsure that architecture decisions remain proportionate to business needs.\nSolution Design and Governance\nLead the definition of end-to-end solution architecture across frontend, backend, integration, data and cloud platform components.\nReview major solution designs, interfaces, APIs, integration patterns and cloud technology decisions.\nFacilitate architecture reviews and ensure that significant decisions are documented and communicated.\nProvide reusable patterns and guardrails that enable squads to implement consistent solutions.\nEvaluate technologies, frameworks and cloud services based on business value, technical suitability and enterprise standards.\nMaintain architecture views, diagrams, decision records, integration flows and supporting technical documentation.\nCloud Architecture\nDesign secure, scalable, resilient and observable solutions on Microsoft Azure.\nGuide the design of distributed, multi-layered, microservices-based and event-driven solutions where appropriate.\nEnsure that cloud solutions address availability, disaster recovery, performance, monitoring, security and operational requirements.\nCollaborate with DevOps and Operations teams to ensure that architecture decisions can be deployed, operated and supported effectively.\nPromote cloud cost awareness and sustainable architecture practices.\nCross-Squad Architecture Alignment\nCoordinate architectural decisions across squads, applications and shared components.\nWork closely with Technical Leaders to ensure that detailed designs and implementations are aligned with the target architecture.\nIdentify cross-squad dependencies, interface constraints and integration risks.\nCollaborate with other architects to maintain coherence across the broader enterprise ecosystem.\nEncourage knowledge sharing through architecture communities, design workshops and technical reviews.\nSecurity, Quality and Compliance\nEmbed security and privacy principles into the solution architecture from the design stage.\nCollaborate with Security, DevOps and Operations teams to define appropriate technical controls.\nEnsure that non-functional requirements are explicit, measurable and considered in solution decisions.\nPromote architecture practices that support testability, observability, maintainability and production readiness.\nEnsure alignment with applicable enterprise architecture, cybersecurity and software development standards.\nYour Profile\nMaster's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.\nSignificant experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise application architecture.\nProven experience defining architecture for enterprise web applications and cloud-based solutions.\nExperience working with multiple Agile development squads and cross-functional stakeholders.\nExperience supporting architecture decisions throughout the entire software development lifecycle.\nExperience working in Agile organizations; SAFe experience is a strong advantage.\nExperience working in international and distributed environments is highly valued.\nYour Skills\nStrong expertise in enterprise solution architecture and cloud-native application design.\nProven experience designing and deploying solutions on Microsoft Azure.\nSolid understanding of:Distributed and multi-layer architectures\nMicroservices architecture\nDomain-Driven Design\nREST APIs and API Management\nEvent-driven architectures and messaging systems\nRelational and NoSQL databases\nIntegration patterns\nIdentity and Access Management\nCloud security principles\nObservability, monitoring, resilience and disaster recovery\n\nFamiliarity with modern application technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, Angular and TypeScript.\nStrong understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure automation, containerization and DevOps practices.\nAbility to assess technical options and clearly explain architectural trade-offs.\nAbility to influence multiple teams and stakeholders without direct authority.\nExcellent communication and facilitation skills.\nFluent English required.\nWe know that skills can show up in many ways and may be based on your life experience. If you do not necessarily meet every single requirement listed above but believe that your experience and potential are relevant to the role, we still encourage you to apply.\nWhy Join Us?\nShape the architecture of strategic digital solutions used worldwide.\nWork at the intersection of cloud engineering, enterprise platforms and electrical distribution solutions.\nInfluence technical decisions across multiple Agile teams and product organizations.\nCollaborate with experts in Product Management, Software Engineering, DevOps, Security and Architecture.\nContribute to Schneider Electric's digital transformation and innovation journey.\nLife Is On: Join us and grow your impact.\n At Schneider, we believe that every employee is a talent who deserves equal opportunities. This means you matter. Every individual needs to feel valued, supported, and treated fairly to do their best work.\nOur Total Rewards is our way of saying: “We see you. We value you”. It’s more than just pay and benefits- it’s a meaningful investment in you. It is designed for you to perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate your potential to shine as an impact maker.\nFor this France based position, the expected pay range is EUR 78.400 - EUR 117.600 per year. This pay range includes base pay and short-term incentives (annual bonus) at target. The compensation range for this full-time position applies to candidates located in France. Our pay ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. Individual’s compensation is positioned within the range based on several factors such as knowledge, job-related skills, experience, potential and relevant education or training.\nSchneider Electric is there when it matters most to you\nOur Total Rewards package outlines all the benefits and support you’ll enjoy as part of the Schneider Electric team:\nCare for Yourself and Your Family.We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: company health, death and disability insurance, paid time off, RTT, teleworking, paid family leaves, parenting and caregivers support.\nInvest and Plan Your Future.We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs: beyond your salary we offer employee saving plan with company matching (PEG), retirement plans (PERO, PERECO), employee share ownership plan and profit sharing plan.\nGrow Your Skills and Career.We commit to helping you grow with ongoing performance and development conversations, Senior Talent Program, global career opportunities, access to our Schneider Career Hub for new positions, projects, and mentors, and learning platforms like Coursera to equip you with the skills for today and tomorrow.\nTeam Up in the Workplace.We encourage teaming up through project opportunities on the Schneider Career Hub, smart ways to collaborate, celebrating contributions via a recognition program, sharing your voice in our engagement survey, and fostering an inclusive, caring workplace.\nSupport Your Community.We make a difference in your community with solidarity leave, programs through the Schneider Electric Foundation, initiatives that support youth education.\n Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?\nWhen you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values - Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork - starts with us.\nIMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.\nWe are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.\nBecome an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric - apply today!\n€40 billion global revenue\n+9% organic growth\n150 000+ employees in 100+ countries\n\nYou must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.\nSchneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do. \nAt Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value. Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders. 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