Solution Architect

• 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.

• 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, * 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., * 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.