Location: La Défense, Lyon or Lens.

Role: IS Solution & Infrastructure Architect

Employment type: Full Time - permanent

Onboarding You To The Company
At Nexans our global vision is to electrify the future. At our business group 'Generation & Transmission' this means designing and fabrication the worlds' best cables. We deliver EPCI turnkey projects anywhere in the world. This means we have the best tools, equipment and people with competence and skillset to install and service those cables.

Welcoming you to the team
Are you looking to advance in your professional career? Join Nexans as an IS Solution & Infrastructure Architect at the headquarters in La Défense or at our sites in Lyon or Lens.

In order to strengthen the Solution Architecture department in IT infrastructure matters, and to complement the application-oriented architect already in place, the IS Solution & Infrastructure Architect will be responsible for reviewing and approving architecture study requests for IT projects; define the architecture and follow the implementation of IS/IT solutions for the Nexans Group's global applications and infrastructures worldwide.

Getting a flying start

Your main responsibilities include:

• Handle diverse requests from applications and infrastructure and analyze them in detail.
• Define the architecture of solutions considering functionalities, technical options, service standards, processes, physical and logical security, user experience, operational model, cost, market trends, and Nexans' current information system.
• Contribute to the execution of solutions as a technical reference, participate in the change management process (CAB: Change Advisory Board), and assist in transition from project mode to operational status.
• Ensure that the solutions maintain their technical reliability as time progresses, and share it with different experts within the IT department.
• Stay updated about market solutions and contribute to technological monitoring
• Contribute to the overall IS/IT strategy.
• Document existing solutions.
• Maintain the architecture repository up to date.

Position Scope & Expected Results:

• Play a pivotal role within the Quality and Performance team of Nexans' IT department.
• Definition of global solutions for the Nexans group.
• 12,000 PCs, 120 sites, 90 factories, 3 main data centers, Cloud, 700+ applications.

• Introduce Architecture standards that align with industry best practices and applicable within the Group's environment.
• Compose design documents, supporting operational teams in crafting technical migration and implementation documents, along with technical documentation.
• Write architecture analysis documents.
• Ensure service commitments are met during request processing.

Your starting point

• 5-10 years of experience as an IS/IT architect.
• General knowledge of IS/IT infrastructures (data centers, cloud, workstations, security, identity, network, telecom, collaboration, databases, etc.).
• Proficiency in standard market architectures.
• Experience in an international, multicultural, and multi-site context.
• Fluent in French and English (100% of documents are written in English).
• Proactive, solution-oriented, and pragmatic.
• Curiosity and innovation.
• Autonomy and initiative.
• Ability to simplify technical concepts.
• Ability to have a high-level and low-level vision and adapt the discourse according to different stakeholders (from experts to CIO).

• Knowledge and interest in the industrial sector.
• Proficiency in the Mega Hopex tool.

Our growth culture
At the individual level our growth-culture is built on trust and collaboration. We wish to welcome you as a valuable member of our team. To enable impact, we believe in freedom and autonomy at the individual level at same time as we encourage knowledge sharing, team-work mentality and can-do attitude amongst our team members. At Nexans, we recognize the differences that make each employee valuable and unique. The diversity of experiences, origins, personalities, gender and disability are considered key to our global ambition to lead the world in energy transition towards a sustainable planet. This is why we encourage diversity in our recruitment - Bring yours to Nexans, it is welcome!