Information Technology Architect

ALTSHIFT Consulting Ltd. is looking for an IT Architect for a full-time, remote contractor engagement.

Location: Remote – Europe only

Engagement: Full-time, B2B contract

Duration: Long-term

Company

The client operates in the energy sector and has a complex IT landscape supporting asset management, grid operations, metering, CRM, billing, and market communication.

Case

The candidate will further develop the architecture of the “Maintain Network” domain, with a strong focus on documenting and optimising the existing application, interface, and asset landscape. Responsibilities include:

1. Creating a detailed inventory of IT systems and applications and documenting application architectures in LeanIX, including technologies, interfaces, data, supported capabilities, and processes.

2. Analyzing the existing IT system landscape and developing proposals for its optimization and further development.

3. Performing comprehensive GAP analyses between the current IT landscape and the business’s desired target state.

4. Preparing detailed reports containing analysis results, identified gaps, conclusions, and recommendations.

5. Identifying concrete improvement measures and areas of action based on the GAP analysis.

6. Designing a target IT landscape for the domain based on the identified improvement measures and architectural requirements.

7. Preparing a final presentation summarizing findings, conclusions, recommendations, and proposed architectural developments.

8. Evaluating new requirements arising during the assignment and documenting architectural decisions through Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).

9. Recording and documenting the existing portal landscape, including portals, applications, interfaces, and technologies across Client.

10. Assessing the current portal architecture regarding usability, functionality, performance, security, and scalability.

11. Identifying requirements and needs of different portal user groups.

12. Performing a GAP analysis of the existing portal architecture against defined requirements.

13. Developing a holistic portal strategy covering future technologies, functionality, integrations, and interfaces.

14. Developing a future portal architecture concept covering design, user experience, security, integration, and scalability.

15. Creating an implementation roadmap defining concrete steps, milestones,

Important for the client

Must-haves:

1. Completed university degree in Computer Science, Business Informatics, or a comparable qualification.

2. Proven knowledge of established architecture frameworks and standards.

3. Many years of professional experience in IT projects involving complex IT landscapes and demanding integration projects.

4. Experience working in both traditional and agile project environments.

5. Several years of experience as an IT architect designing modern web applications and web platforms.

6. Strong knowledge of modern IT architectures and development environments, including portals, API management, microservices, CI/CD, Django, Kubernetes/K8s, Ruby on Rails, or comparable technologies.

7. Experience designing and implementing “Governance as a Service” for AI and agent-based solutions.

8. Experience designing and further developing an Agent Harness for standardized orchestration, security, and governance of AI agents.

9. Knowledge of defining and technically enforcing governance rules, guardrails, role and authorization concepts, lifecycle requirements, and compliance requirements for AI agents.

10. Experience with LLM and agent governance, including controlled access to tools and data, traceability, observability, and reusable governance components.

11. Experience setting up, structuring, and continuously maintaining an LLM-optimized wiki or Git-based knowledge base.

12. Proficiency with Git-based workflows for versioned, traceable, and automatable knowledge maintenance, including Markdown, branching, pull requests, reviews, and CI/CD.

13. Experience preparing architecture, governance, and operational knowledge so it can be used automatically by LLMs and AI agents.

Nice-to-haves:

1. Knowledge of the energy industry.

2. Knowledge of IT applications used by a distribution system operator, particularly in asset management, grid operations, metering, CRM, billing, and/or market communication.

HOW TO APPLY

Please send your CV and expected hourly rate (EUR/hour) via LinkedIn or in email to [email protected]

We will only consider applications from Europe.