Application Architect – Defence & Security, Toulon / Six-Fours-les-Plages

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Responsibilities

• ▹Contribute to pre-sales by carrying the technical vision
• ▹Design new robust and scalable architectures independently, with the support of a senior architect when needed
• ▹Ensure the durability of solutions and their fit with client needs
• ▹Ensure the consistency and quality of technical installations
• ▹Actively watch technology and bring relevant new technologies into projects
• ▹Introduce development teams to new technologies and promote good development practices
• ▹Train and mentor junior architects

Requirements

• ▹At least 5 years of experience as a developer and/or architect
• ▹Experience at an IT services firm (ESN) and/or as an architect with specific commitments to meet
• ▹Command of, or at least knowledge of, C# and/or C++
• ▹Command of, or at least knowledge of, industrialisation tools such as Git, GitLab or SonarQube
• ▹Technical environment: modelling (UML, ArchiMate, TOGAF); Java (Maven, Spring Boot, Thymeleaf), Angular, React, Vue.js, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, C#, C++, Qt, VTK, GDAL; microservices and web services (REST, WebSocket); 3D simulation (Unity, Unreal Engine); data: NiFi, Kafka, Spark; cloud: Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, RKE2, vSphere; databases: PostgreSQL, Apache Solr, Cassandra

Nice to have

• ▹Knowledge of the Qt framework (virtual reality)
• ▹Knowledge of Unreal Engine (3D simulation)

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Hybrid working (the team mostly works at the Six-Fours-les-Plages office and occasionally at the client site in Toulon)
• ▹Meaningful, up-to-date projects (territory protection, augmented reality, AI)
• ▹Close work with client-side stakeholders and direct visibility on project results
• ▹Membership of the Tech’Me UP technical community to develop skills and join innovation working groups
• ▹Build your internal network through company events

About the company

Sopra Steria is a major European tech group in consulting, digital services and solutions, with 51,000 employees in nearly 30 countries and revenue of 5.8 billion euros in 2024. The Defence & Security vertical in Toulon / Six-Fours-les-Plages serves a client protecting French territory, its population and its interests by developing and maintaining simulation solutions; the team has several dozen people (developers, a project manager, a business analyst).