Software Architect

Description

The company is a European technology firm that has supported digital innovation for more than 45 years.

It brings digital tools to businesses of every size, from HR and customer relations to e-invoicing and digital payments, with customised solutions that streamline how companies operate.

The R&D team drives the group's innovation, researching new technologies and investing heavily in artificial intelligence.

You join an agile team and work on demanding, scalable projects in software design and architecture, in a fast-moving environment focused on growth.

The company values entrepreneurship, innovation and inclusion, and it expects people to learn from challenges and take initiative.

Responsibilities

• Set and guide architecture choices for products so they fit platform principles and move toward multi-tenant SaaS on the cloud.
• Turn business and product goals into sustainable architectures, keeping strategy, system design and implementation aligned.
• Work with Engineering Managers to shape domains, services, APIs and events across teams, keeping the system coherent and easy to evolve over time.
• Lead architecture reviews and explain options, risks and system-wide effects before they become fixed constraints.
• Move systems toward modular, interoperable and extensible designs that allow reuse and collaboration across products.
• Design architectures that bring data, models and intelligent automation into product workflows.
• Work effectively with legacy systems, production limits and changing organisational contexts.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional experience in IT architecture or closely related areas.
• Proven record designing and evolving complex distributed systems on hyperscaler platforms, and justifying trade-offs against legacy constraints, operational stability, scalability and cost.
• Experience designing API-driven and event-driven architectures and building modular, scalable systems.
• Ability to lead technical decisions across disciplines and work directly with development teams.
• Experience designing AI and data-driven software, including assessing risks, model degradation, explainability and operating limits in production.
• Ability to keep strategic vision, architecture and implementation aligned.
• Advanced English (C1 level).
• Plus: experience modelling complex domains with Domain-Driven Design.

Conditions

Total compensation of €69,000 to €86,000, including a performance-linked variable part, based on a full-time role.

Four-day week, giving you an extra day off every week.

Hybrid work, with you deciding when to come into the office; on-site days are for work that benefits from being together, not for attendance.

The company is committed to an inclusive workplace that values diverse backgrounds and perspectives.

Benefits

• Wellbeing Digital Wallet from €4,400 per year, a personal budget for travel, medical costs, parental support, sports, and reimbursement of personal services such as childcare and caregiving.
• Learning paths tailored to you and real development opportunities within an international group that keeps evolving.