Chief Architect: AI-Driven Platform Pioneer

Showpad; Oost-Vlaanderen; Sur place; EUR 180 000 - 260 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Showpad in Belgium is seeking a Chief Architect to set and steward the architectural direction of Showpad's entire product portfolio. You are the CTO's principal technical partner, defining target-state architecture and the runway to get there while balancing quality, cost, and AI/cloud economics.

This deeply technical, cross-functional role engages with Product, GTM, customers, the executive leadership team and the board, requiring credibility, influence, and hands-on architectural excellence

Qualifications

• 15+ years of industry experience, with substantial depth in B2B SaaS.
• Led architecture and development for large-scale enterprise products, multi-tenant and enterprise-grade.
• Deep, demonstrable expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native SaaS architectures.
• Proven track record working with and through globally distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones.
• Experience establishing architecture practices across multi-team engineering orgs (RFCs, ADRs, design reviews).
• Managed teams of 10–25 people directly, while remaining hands-on and technically current.

Responsabilités

• Portfolio architecture: define target-state platform architecture and the pragmatic path from where each product is today.
• Architecture Review Board: chair ARB and establish standards, reference architectures, decision records and review cadence.
• Architecture and design runways: embed in development process where complex deliverables require an architecture runway ahead of execution.
• Customer engagement: represent Showpad's technology to customers and prospects — architecture, security and AI deep dives, plus the product and commercial context.
• Technology transformation: lead modernization of complex, dated products in the portfolio, de-risking and sequencing multi-year efforts.
• Staffing and operating models: recommend staffing and sourcing models to the CTO, including global team topology and build/buy decisions.
• AI and cloud economics: establish practices, guardrails and observability for AI inference and cloud costs.
• Role model: set the standard for business-aware technical excellence and cost/time-to-value for customers.

Connaissances

Distributed systems

Cloud-native SaaS

AI architecture

Cross-functional leadership

Technical influence

Multi-tenant architectures

Outils

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Description du poste

Showpad in Belgium is seeking a Chief Architect to set and steward the architectural direction of Showpad's entire product portfolio. You are the CTO's principal technical partner, defining target-state architecture and the runway to get there while balancing quality, cost, and AI/cloud economics.

This deeply technical, cross-functional role engages with Product, GTM, customers, the executive leadership team and the board, requiring credibility, influence, and hands-on architectural excellence