Senior Solution Architect - remote from Europe - Deadline 12/11/26
▪ Design and develop comprehensive business and technical architectures for digital solutions to meet business needs, defining measurable non-functional requirements.
▪ Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements.
▪ Evaluate and select appropriate technologies and frameworks.
▪ Create and maintain key architectural artifacts, including Solution Context diagrams, C4 model views, API contracts, data models, threat models, and deployment diagrams.
▪ Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and reliable.
▪ Guide development teams during implementation phases.
▪ Conduct architecture and code reviews to ensure adherence to enterprise standards and secure coding guidelines (e.g. Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)) throughout the implementation lifecycle.
▪ Identify and mitigate potential risks and technical challenges.
▪ Assess and incorporate emerging technologies.
▪ Provide technical leadership and support to development teams and other stakeholders.
▪ Define integration patterns (e.g. event-driven, Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP)), data flows, and API standards (OpenAPI/AsyncAPI) to ensure coherent and scalable system interactions.
▪ Incorporate observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and resiliency patterns (e.g., circuit breakers, retries) into solution designs to ensure system reliability and maintainability.
▪ Support the development of security architectures, including identity management, secrets handling, encryption, and conduct threat modelling (e.g. STRIDE) to identify and mitigate risks.
SPECIFIC EXPERTISE AND TECHNOLOGIES
▪ Proficiency in systems and software architecture design.
▪ Knowledge of cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, OVH) and ability to design architectures that leverage native services to minimise custom development. ▪ Knowledge of enterprise applications and middleware.
▪ Knowledge of microservices architecture and API management (e.g., REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI) to design modular and reusable solutions.
▪ Understanding of database management systems and data modelling.
▪ Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps) to ensure continuous integration and reliable deployments.
▪ Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, etc.
▪ Knowledge of cybersecurity principles and standards (e.g., ISO 27001, OWASP, Zero Trust) to ensure secure solution design.
▪ Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
▪ Knowledge of networking concepts and protocols.
▪ Knowledge of observability and monitoring practices (e.g., logging, tracing, metrics) to ensure system reliability and resilience.
▪ Knowledge of architecture governance and documentation practices (e.g., decision records, C4 diagrams, architecture reviews).
▪ Proven experience with AXON server, KAFKA, Elastic Search
▪ Proven experience with an API Gateway - WSO2 API, Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Gateway, Google Cloud Apigee.
▪ In depth knowledge of CSDR
SKILLS
▪ Capacity to collaborate across teams and communicate architectural concepts.
▪ Skill in simplifying technical architectures into business-relevant language.
▪ Competence in anticipating future needs and designing scalable solutions.
▪ Talent for working across teams to ensure integrated outcomes.
▪ Ability to engage stakeholders to gather requirements and secure buy-in.
▪ Capacity to adjust architectures to reflect emerging technologies.
Deadline 12/11/26
Delivery mode: Remote from EU Countries
Level: Senior/Expert, more than 15 years of IT Experience
Must be an EU national – due to the nature of tasks the candidate will be required to access sensitive data.
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