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Expert, IT Architecture

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on designing and improving IT architecture solutions at Randstad. You will assess business needs, recommend enhancements, and lead architectural efforts for projects, contributing to the overall effectiveness of the organization's IT systems.

Qualifications

  • Specialized conceptual and practical knowledge in IT architecture.
  • Comprehensive understanding of related disciplines.
  • Ability to solve complex and diverse problems.
  • Experience leading projects or project steps within broader projects.
  • Ability to explain difficult or sensitive information to facilitate productive discussion.

Responsibilities

  • Design solutions by producing complex models that form a blueprint of the solution to be implemented.
  • Assess requirements and relevant business and IT data to identify opportunities for business value.
  • Review the full systems architecture and recommend improvements or enhancements.
  • Execute troubleshooting for medium to high complexity problems and support through program and solution architecture lifecycles.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
  • Problem Solving
  • Communication
  • Teamwork

About the company

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Randstad

  • Staffing & Recruiting
  • Large
  • 10,001+
Randstad is the world’s largest talent company and a partner of choice to clients. We are committed to providing equitable opportunities to people from all backgrounds and help them remain relevant in the rapidly changing world of work. We have a deep understanding of the labor market and help our clients to create the high-quality, diverse and agile workforces they need to succeed. Our 46,000 employees around the world make a positive impact on society by helping people to realize their true potential throughout their working life. Randstad was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Diemen, the Netherlands. In 2022, in our 39 markets, we helped more than 2 million people find a job that feels good and advised over 230,000 clients on their talent needs. We generated revenue of €27.6 billion. Randstad N.V. is listed on the Euronext Amsterdam. For more information, see www.randstad.com

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Job description

Every year, we help hundreds of thousands of people find rewarding jobs in the ever-changing world of work.

We understand the importance of a job in peoples lifes and we want to help them find work that feels good. And we’ll help them continue to grow as their needs and ambitions change.

At Randstad, our value comes from our people and that is why we put them first. We are proud of our learning culture and career architecture framework that encourages ours team to develop both personally and professionally.

We believe that talent grows when presented with opportunity and this is why we encourage our people to think beyond their role. We have created a culture that enables talent to flourish, encouraging entrepreneurship, fostering team spirit, and continually building mutual trust.

• Designs solutions by producing various complex models that describe each component sufficiently to form a blueprint of the solution to be implemented. May provide guidance to more junior team members • Assesses requirements and relevant business and IT data to identify opportunities to create business value, and assists in the translation of these into an effective solutions architecture • Reviews the full systems architecture currently in place and working with the technical teams to recommend solutions to improve it. Assess the compatibility, integration and technical specifications of multiple products/ services/ architecture components to recommend appropriate, timely and necessary improvements or enhancements • Executes competitive analyses and market validation activities, such as benchmarking, trend analysis and prototype testing. Assesses viability of basic product features • Executes troubleshooting for problems of medium to high complexity and support through program and solution architecture lifecycles, escalating where necessary • Leads architecture development for small projects and supports architectural efforts for large projects (e.g., a project module or existing technology map review) or complex components of projects Grade Descriptor • Requires specialized conceptual and practical knowledge in own discipline or field and comprehensive understanding of related disciplines • Solves complex and diverse problems • Works independently, receives minimal guidance • Leads projects or project steps within a broader or cross-functional project or may have accountability for on-going activities or objectives • Contributes to process improvements • Acts as a resource for and supports the development of colleagues with less experience • Impacts the ongoing achievement of customer, operational, project/program or key business/organizational/service objectives and recommends improvements within area of responsibility • Explains difficult or sensitive information to facilitate productive discussion; works to build consensus

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