Architecture and Technology Director
Listed on 2026-09-01
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IT/Tech
IT Consultant, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Systems Engineer, IT Project Manager
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About us
Join us at Orange Business!
We are a network and digital integrator that understands the entire value chain of the digital world, freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that shape their business.
Every day, you will collaborate with a team dedicated to providing consistent, sustainable global solutions, no matter where our customers operate. With over 30,000 employees across Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, we offer a dynamic environment to develop and perfect your skills in a field filled with exciting challenges and opportunities.
About the roleWe are looking for an experienced Architecture and Technical Director (ATD) to join our Contract Business Unit for one (or more) strategic global customers.
In this role, you will be the overall owner of the customer technical architecture across all Orange services and solutions—post-sales and for organic growth pre-sales. You will lead the Architecture & Technology Office
, set the technical strategy and roadmap, and ensure that every solution we design is implementable, operable, secure, and financially optimized
.
You will act as the trusted technology advisor for the customer, working closely with CxO-level stakeholders, the Contract Business Unit Head, Solution Leads, and our internal and external partners to translate business strategy into a robust, scalable, and innovative architecture.
If you are passionate about complex enterprise architectures, leading high-performing technical teams, and driving innovation and automation in a global, multicultural environment, we encourage you to apply.
Objectives of the role
- Be the trusted technology advisor and global lead architect for a major customer account.
- Own the end-to-end technical architecture of all Orange-delivered services across the full lifecycle of the contract.
- Lead the Architecture & Technology Office
, providing direction, coaching, and coordination for architecture and design resources. - Govern and sign off all new technical solutions and major changes
, ensuring they are implementable, operable, secure, and aligned with standards. - Shape and maintain the technical roadmap jointly with the customer, aligned with their business strategy and Orange Business objectives (revenue, margin, satisfaction).
- Support organic growth by managing a structured pre-sales governance for incremental opportunities within the existing contract.
- Ensure architecture coherence and design consistency across all domains (data, security, voice, collaboration, cloud, data center, applications, etc.).
- Drive innovation, automation, and AI-based services
, testing them in lab environments and co-creating with the customer. - Ensure effective knowledge management and documentation
, including design repositories and architecture standards. - Contribute to the CBU P&L, financially optimizing solutions and ensuring delivery according to or better than the business case.
What you will do
1. Customer leadership & architecture governance
- Act as the global lead architect for the account, representing Orange in the joint technology board and other senior technical forums.
- Regularly meet with customer executives and technical leaders (on-site, remote, and at industry events) to understand their business, IT strategy, and transformation priorities.
- Design and maintain a detailed customer journey and enterprise architecture that connects business capabilities, processes, and technology building blocks.
- Identify and document customer use cases and related service profile structures to guide solution design and industrialization.
- Own the governance process on technology and service architecture
, including architecture review boards, innovation boards, and change advisory governance. - Serve as the client technical advocate
, ensuring that Orange solutions meet or exceed agreed expectations while preserving Orange’s business objectives.
2. Solution design, lifecycle & operations
- Lead and validate high-level and low-level designs (HLD/LLD) across network, security, collaboration, cloud, and associated ecosystems.
- Ensure that all solutions are implementable and operable by Orange operations teams, including…
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