Orange Middle East and Africa (OMEA) is a leading telecom and digital services provider operating across 17 countries in Africa and the Middle East. The Digital Factory is a strategic initiative aimed at delivering innovative digital customer journeys, process digitization, and technology-driven solutions with agility and scalability. As the Lead Architect Digital Factory, you will play a pivotal role in defining and evolving the architectural vision aligned with business goals and modern practices such as cloud-native, API-first, and event-driven architectures.

Key Responsibilities:

• Shape architectural guidelines and standards to support agility, scalability, and reusability across all Digital Factory projects.
• Design product architectures based on Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) principles.
• Orchestrate architectural governance and lead the Design Authority across all product lines.
• Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders across engineering, product, security, and country-level teams.
• Deliver consistent, scalable, and secure architectures aligned with product vision and business needs.
• Establish a trusted API ecosystem through successful deployment of API Gateways and Marketplace.
• Improve modularity, agility, and performance of systems via modern architecture practices.
• Ensure timely product delivery with reduced technical debt and enhanced developer productivity.

Profile and Competencies:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in architecture roles in Telecom, Banking, or Digital Platforms.
• Expertise in Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, DDD, BDD, TDD.
• Proficiency in API Management (Kong, Apigee, KrakenD, AWS/Azure API Management).
• Experience with Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd) and Integration & Orchestration tools (MuleSoft, BizTalk, Apache Camel).
• Strong background in Cloud & DevOps (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Gitlab CI/CD, Jenkins, Terraform).
• Knowledge of frameworks and tools such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, Lucidchart, Gliffy, Swagger/OpenAPI.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder engagement capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in French and English.
• A strong sense of innovation, pragmatism, and solution orientation.

Technical Leadership & DevSecOps Enablement:

• Support squads in adopting Agile, DevOps, and DevSecOps best practices.
• Enable continuous delivery through CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, and automated testing.
• Mentor developers, product owners, and project managers on technical excellence, software craftsmanship, and architectural thinking.

Documentation & Technology:

• Maintain up-to-date architectural blueprints, principles, and repositories using tools such as TOGAF, Lucidchart, ArchiMate.
• Advocate for modern software design through communities of practice and technical workshops.

Contract: CDI. Location: Casablanca, Morocco. The role is primarily onsite with potential hybrid arrangements. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits package aligned with Orange’s global standards.