Senior Solutions Architect • Current Employee
Pros: Possibility to become an architect in less than 5 years.
Multiple projects, multiple experiences in a short time.
Client projects often with complex architectures allowing for growth.
DevOps tools available (but little used).
Job stability.
Quick responsibilities to take on if one invests themselves.
A salary of an engineer even if one has no experience or potential, even if one barely speaks and writes French!
Cons: - Lack of seniority, almost no experts (in the TRUE sense of the word...)
- No funding outside of projects since site managers are evaluated on the imputation percentage (innovation time, AVV, training are almost impossible to obtain).
- Employee interest comes after hierarchy, then profitability, then the client, meaning listening is nonexistent.
- Projects with obsolete technologies, large clients not liking change.
- Underqualified and unmotivated development population.
- Passion increasingly rare in all employee categories.
- Internal expertise increasingly difficult to find.
- Incompetent (technically and organizationally) and retrograde management, old-fashioned top-down.
- A lot of "corporate BS".
- Recognition gained through relationships, not competence.
- Salary increases based on seniority; avoid being too far above the average to prevent frustration.