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.