Solution Architecture Lead
Lisbon, Portugal
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About the Role
We're looking for a Solution Architecture Lead to build and lead a team of Solution Architects while driving the evolution, resilience, and reliability of the company's system landscape. Working closely with Enterprise Architecture, you'll translate long-term target architecture into pragmatic guidance and ensure consistent adoption across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of Solution Architects
- Own the Solution Architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap across multiple engineering domains, in close alignment with Enterprise Architecture
- Drive end-to-end architectural alignment across business capabilities
- Actively manage, reduce, and control technical debt to maintain long-term agility and system health
- Proactively evolve architecture and platforms to enable rapid, reliable delivery of future business features
- Define and enforce architectural standards for high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and risk management (including NIS2)
- Establish measurable reliability practices, including resilience reviews, maturity assessments, and failure testing
- Provide hands-on guidance to product teams and engineers building scalable, secure, cloud-native, fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Ensure strategic and technical alignment between Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Product
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional background
- Several years of professional experience in Software or Solution Architecture
- Leadership experience (e.g., team lead, chapter lead, technical lead, architecture manager)
- Strong hands-on background in software engineering, with modern programming languages, cloud platforms (AWS or Azure), and distributed systems
- Solid understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity concepts
- Ability to balance delivery speed with system robustness while managing technical debt
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Strategic mindset combined with practical execution capability
- Excellent English skills (written and spoken)
- Willingness to travel occasionally within Europe
What's Offered
- Health insurance
- International work environment
- Friendly, cooperative workplace
- Worktime flexibility
What can you expect from us?
Mind-blowing workplace culture. You will be integrated in a professional, dynamic and collaborative team.
100% Remote opportunities
We want you to have the flexibility to work where you feel most comfortable and productive.
International Career
- You can expect professional growth and to be connect with the world.
- We are represented in Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Denmark.
- And with projects in many other countries: Netherlands, Luxembourg, Singapore and in the United States of America (and a lot more is coming…)
Extra Benefits & Perks
If you wish to work with us and you are outside European Union (good news…) we are a Tech Visa Company, We will help!
As a plus, we provide Health and Life Insurance.
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