- Company Name
- Sofrecom Maroc
- Job Title
- Data Architect (F/H)
- Job Description
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**Job title**: Data Architect
**Role Summary**:
Act as the Design Authority overseeing enterprise-wide IT architecture across multiple SIs. Lead data urbanization, cloud strategy, AI factory implementation, and application portfolio rationalization. Deliver architecture studies, business cases, and governance frameworks to ensure technical coherence, regulatory compliance, and cost efficiency.
**Expectations**:
- 10+ years of senior enterprise architecture experience in complex data/platform and BSS/OSS integration environments.
- Proven ability to drive multi‑DSI transformations, create business cases, and influence senior stakeholders.
- Fluent in French; professional proficiency in English.
**Key Responsibilities**:
- Conduct architecture studies (opportunity, scope, options) for partner DSI units.
- Draft investment dossiers: business case, CAPEX/OPEX, ROI, risk, GDPR & sovereignty compliance.
- Architect data urbanization: domains, models, policies, catalog, lineage; define Data Mesh / Data Product patterns.
- Define GCP landing zone & best practices (IAM, VPC, BigQuery, Dataflow/Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI, Data Catalog, FinOps).
- Support BSS/OOS, billing, API, and event‑driven architecture studies, aligning with TM Forum frameworks (eTOM, SID, Open APIs).
- Maintain application/data/integration cartography; prioritize rationalization, decommissioning, and TCO impact.
- Lead API management strategy (design‑first, OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, throttling, monetization).
- Champion security & compliance: Zero Trust, encryption, secrets, GDPR, ITSM/ITIL.
- Apply FinOps: cost modelling, right‑sizing, reservations, autoscaling optimization.
**Required Skills**:
- Enterprise architecture: TOGAF/TMF, BPMN, capability & information mapping, DDD.
- Data architecture: governance, quality, catalog/lineage, Data Mesh/Lakehouse, DataOps/MLOps.
- API & event architecture: design‑first, versioning, security.
- Cloud & platform: GCP (landing zone, IAM, VPC, BigQuery, Dataflow/Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI, Data Catalog), Kubernetes/OpenShift, IaC (Terraform/Ansible), CI/CD, observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
- Security & compliance: Zero Trust, encryption, RS, GDPR, ITSM/ITIL.
- FinOps & cost optimisation.
**Required Education & Certifications**:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred).
- Certifications: TOGAF, ArchiMate, TM Forum (eTOM, SID) – highly desirable.
- Cloud: GCP Professional Cloud Architect (or equivalent in AWS/Azure).
- Kubernetes: CKA/CKAD.
- FinOps: Certified FinOps Practitioner.
- Security: CISSP / CCSP (or equivalent).