Technical Architect / Development Expert
Mission Overview:
The role is a consultancy opportunity at a client site through Keystone Solutions. As a Technical Architect / Development Expert within the DevEx (Development Experience) tribe, you will be pivotal in setting the gold standard for how software is written, built, and delivered. Your primary mission will be to craft and enforce clear, actionable development guidelines that ensure consistency, quality, and maintainability across all codebases. These guidelines will serve as a shared language and philosophy, enabling engineers to collaborate effectively and deliver robust solutions faster.
By defining and promoting best practices from code style conventions to architectural patterns, you will help lay the foundation for a development experience that empowers every developer to focus on innovation and impact, rather than reinventing the wheel. You will also have the opportunity to explore strategic partnerships and collaborations with external experts to infuse market-leading best practices and AI-driven innovations, ensuring our development community remains ahead of the curve.
This position will involve both on-site and remote work, with 50% of your time spent in the office and 50% working from home. Ad hoc trips to Paris may also be organized to participate in workshops with colleagues from the BNP Paribas group.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define Development Conventions & Guidelines: Develop comprehensive coding standards, design patterns, naming conventions, code review processes, and other essential engineering practices.
- Architectural Oversight: Ensure that development standards align with scalable and maintainable architecture, collaborating closely with system architects.
- Technical Leadership: Support technical experts across all levels, fostering a culture of high-quality code.
- Governance: Define mechanisms for monitoring and enforcing adherence to development guidelines.
- Integration of Development Standards into AI-powered Tooling: Translate development standards into AI-powered tooling as you actively implement AI coding assistants to enhance developer productivity and code quality.
Objectives and Key Results: Your standards should be adopted by a majority of the developers and recognized as adding value by the community.
Language Requirements:
- Mandatory: Sound knowledge of English.
- Extra: Either French and/or Dutch.
Required Experience / Knowledge:
- At least 6 years of relevant experience in a business context.
- Experience defining and enforcing development standards in large-scale organizations.
- Deep knowledge of modern software architecture, design patterns, and best practices.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence without authority.
- Passion for mentoring and growing engineering teams.
- Hands-on experience with one or more modern languages/frameworks, by order of importance (e.g., Java & Spring/SpringBoot, Node.js, Python, Go).
- Familiarity with security best practices.
- Experience integrating development standards into AI-powered tooling (designing prompt templates, codifying coding rules and architectural patterns into reusable AI instructions and collaborating with platform teams to ensure that AI tools reflect internal best practices).
- Experience with embedded AI coding agents inside IDE.
Nice to Have Soft Skills:
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to influence highly skilled peers in a guild or community.
- Presentation skills for cross-departmental demonstration and training sessions.
- Quality-first mindset with attention to detail.
- Strong leadership and initiative-taking ability.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to adapt and bond easily with new colleagues.
- Collaboration and feedback are key elements of your personality.
- Willingness to challenge requirements based on your expertise.
- Stress resistant.
If you are ready to tackle technical and strategic challenges in a dynamic consultancy environment, apply today at Keystone Solutions Career Portal.
