Cyclad is an international IT Consulting and Outsourcing Company. Since 2007 we have been supporting our Clients and Partners on European market in leading divers IT/ ITC projects. Our mission is to provide the highest quality services, while being concerned for personal development and job satisfaction of our Consultants.

Currently, for our client we are looking for IT Architect to work in Katowice.

Job specification:

The primary responsibility of this position is to develop and maintain a high level design plan for the overall logical and technical customer IT architecture as well as provide technical leadership and consulting across the organization from strategic decision making down to the project planning level. He/she will gain organizational commitment for all high-level infrastructure plans and will initiate and participate in the various projects to evaluate technologies and methods for implementing these plans.

Main accountabilities:

• Maintaining in depth knowledge of the organization’s strategic business plans
• Providing architectural consulting expertise, direction and assistance to the various stakeholders as requested
• Analyzing existing processes and proposing points for improvement on security, availability and costs
• Documenting and developing in-depth knowledge of the organization’s existing IT architecture, infrastructure and technology portfolio
• Developing and managing an infrastructure capacity plan

Requirements:

• Higher education or equivalent through work experience at required level
• Experience and knowledge in SOA architecture principles
• Experience in relevant frameworks (TOGAF) and relevant methodologies (e.g. UML) TOGAF certification
• Knowledge and understanding of development, service management, project management and quality management methodologies
• Expert knowledge on common quality standards (e.g. ISO9001) and process improvement approaches (e.g. CMMi)
• Knowledge of auditing and interviewing techniques
• Planning and organization skills
• Presentation and negotiation skills
• Very good knowledge of English

We offer:

• Interesting and stable job in international team
• Competitive salary with attractive benefit package
• Free private medical care
• Additional life insurance
• Intensive training package
• Opportunity of personal development in a multinational environment
• Successful candidate is expected to participate in ~3 months transition on customer premises outside of Poland
• Conducting research on emerging technologies in support of infrastructure development
• Developing, documenting, recommending and communicating plans for investing in IT infrastructure, including analysis for cost reduction opportunities
• Holding the liaison responsibility between business, users and IT