Senior Solution Architect - remote from Europe - Deadline 12/11/26

About this role

▪ 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.