Senior Enterprise Applications Architect
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About the Company
With operational hubs scattered across Europe, Asia, and LATAM, and its headquarters situated in San Francisco, US, the company boasts a workforce of over 1,000 adept professionals. Spanning across more than 20 countries, ALLSTARSIT offers a diverse range of skilled employees across various verticals, including AI, cybersecurity, healthcare, fintech, telecom, media, and so on.
About the Project
About the client:
Our client is a leading global law firm that offers professionals the opportunity to work on complex, cross-border projects that shape international business and policy. With teams collaborating across jurisdictions, they deliver strategic legal and commercial solutions in areas such as corporate law, tax, finance, dispute resolution, technology, and intellectual property. Joining this organization means being part of an inclusive and dynamic environment where innovation, integrity, and professional growth are central, with exposure to high-profile clients, diverse industries, and continuous learning opportunities within a truly global network.
About the role:
The Senior Enterprise Applications Architect is responsible for designing, overseeing, and evolving the firm's global application landscape. This role ensures that all applications, whether custom-developed or commercial off-the-shelf are robust, scalable, secure, performant, and seamlessly integrated to support the firm's strategic imperatives, particularly delivering excellence in complex, cross-border, high-value work and amplify data. This architect provides technical and thought leadership to development teams within the Technology Enablement group and guides the selection and integration of third-party solutions.
Specialization
Headquarters
Years on the market
Team size and structure
Current technology stack
Required skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- 20+ years of experience in software development and application architecture, with at least 10 years in a senior architect role within a large, complex enterprise.
- Extensive experience with modern application architectures (e.g., microservices, event-driven, serverless) and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages (e.g., C#, Java, Python, JavaScript) and associated frameworks.
- Strong understanding of API design, integration patterns, and data exchange formats (REST, SOAP, JSON, XML).
- Understanding of architectural frameworks and languages (TOGAF, SparX, Archimate)
- Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing.
- Experience working in a global organization with diverse, distributed teams.
- Deep technical expertise in software design, development, and integration.
- TOGAF Certification
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to think strategically about application ecosystems.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Leadership and mentoring abilities, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
- Negotiation, mediation and diplomatic skills in dealing with complex, multi-dimensional stakeholder groups.
- Ability to balance technical excellence with business pragmatism.
- Proactive in identifying and addressing technical debt and architectural risks.
Nice to have:
- Master's degree in a relevant field.
- Experience in the legal or professional services industry.
Scope of work:
- Global Application Strategy & Roadmap: Define and maintain the firm's global application strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business capabilities and enterprise architecture principles.
- Architectural Design & Governance: Lead and supervise the architectural design of complex application solutions, including custom development projects, proof of concepts and integration patterns for COTS products and innovation initiatives. Ensure adherence to enterprise architectural standards, best practices, and security policies.
- Technology Selection: Help evaluate, recommend, and select appropriate application technologies, frameworks, and platforms (e.g., cloud-native services, microservices, APIs) that meet performance, scalability, and security requirements.
- Enterprise Integration Architecture: Establish and provide architecture guidance for robust and scalable integration solutions between diverse applications and systems across the global enterprise, enabling seamless data flow and process automation.
- Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to development teams within Custom Development (System Engineering), Data Operations, Innovation and Integration teams, fostering a culture of high-quality code, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Performance & Scalability: Ensure application architectures and designs are optimized for performance, scalability, and reliability in a global, 24/7 operational environment.
- Security by Design: Ensure security best practices is embedded into all phases of the application development lifecycle, working closely with cybersecurity teams.
- Vendor Management: Collaborate with vendors for COTS solutions, ensuring their products integrate effectively into Baker McKenzie's architectural landscape.
- Innovation & Emerging Tech: Work with the Innovation Group to evaluate and prototype new application technologies and patterns that could provide a competitive advantage or enhance legal service delivery.
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