Chapter Lead Architect

As a **Chapter Lead Architect **(_M/F)_, you will lead and manage a team of architects responsible for middleware squads delivering advanced IT services.

**Your main responsibilities**:

- Lead, inspire, and mentor a team of architects, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Provide strategic guidance to ensure alignment between architecture solutions and the organization’s goals
- Oversee the design and development of middleware solutions to ensure they meet functional, technical, and security requirements
- Define and enforce architectural standards, best practices, and governance frameworks for middleware technologies
- Work closely with middleware squads to ensure that architectural designs are properly implemented and maintained
- Collaborate with other chapter leads, product owners, and squad members to align architecture objectives with overall project goals
- Facilitate knowledge sharing and communication between middleware architects and other technical teams.
- Drive initiatives to optimize middleware architecture for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness
- Identify and implement emerging technologies and methodologies to enhance middleware services and capabilities
- Conduct regular architecture reviews to identify gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for middleware architecture-related queries and decisions
- Provide regular updates to senior management and stakeholders on architecture strategies, progress, and challenges
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure middleware solutions align with consumer needs and expectations

**Your profile**:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- Extensive experience (min 7 years) in IT architecture, with a focus on middleware solutions
- Proven leadership experience, with the ability to manage, mentor, and develop technical teams
- Strong expertise in middleware technologies such as WebLogic, API Gateway, and containerization platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a focus on delivering practical and innovative solutions
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders effectively.
- Fluency in English (written and spoken)
- Experience in a public administration or similarly complex environment is desirable

**Additional Information** Arηs Group** - **part of Accenture** - is a market leader in the management of complex IT projects and systems. Founded in Luxembourg in 2003, we have grown to encompass 11 entities worldwide, employing over **2,500 **employees in **Luxembourg**, **Belgium**, **Greece**, **Italy **and **Bulgaria**.

With our focus on getting things done, we help our clients achieve their goals with best-of-breed solutions, superior execution and exceptional services. We offer bespoke software development, data science, infrastructure, digital trust and mobile development to government institutions at national and European level, telecom providers, and financial institutions, among others.

Our bold company culture is built around working hard and playing hard, with a flat and agile structure that lends itself to efficiency and employee empowerment. We value our diverse workplace of close-knit teams and provide a place where everyone can be supported to learn and evolve.

**_
Our Vision and Values_**

Our vision is to be the most caring and reliable IT company on the market place for both clients and our people.

Our values are**:caring, agility, excellence, innovation, continual improvement, and reliability**.

Our values support our vision by leveraging excellence, striving for results, ensuring commitment and promoting adaptability.

**_ Our Culture_**

We work in close partnership with our customers, turning their needs into benefits; We promote a dynamic local environment where both young and experience people can realize themselves; We leverage a flexible, independent and responsive organization.

**_ Our Brand_**

The ArȠs (pronounce [aris]) name comes from Greek Mythology. ArȠs is the son of Zeus and the God of War - in our eyes, an accurate representation of the intelligence, strategy, leadership and vision that are essential in business.

**Don’t hesitate Join our team**

**_ What you’ll get:_**

An **informal hierarchy **and work environment:
Our open, flat structure supports a strong focus on communication and collaboration, enabling to respond quickly to market changes and customer requests.

An **attractive salary package**:
With an attractive salary and benefits package - including advantageous fringe benefits - you’ll be paid for what you love to do.

A strong **corporate culture**:
You’ll join a **dynamic team **of smart and ambitious people. From the way we hire, to the way we relate to our clients - our values from the foundati