Lead Cloud Architect

Sofico; Zwijnaarde; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal allowance provided per workingday

Group and hospitalisation insurance

Hybrid working and flexible hours

Modern co-working space

Structured onboarding program

Team activities and company events

Job summary

Sofico is seeking a Cloud (Platform) Architect to own the architecture and direction of the SOFICO Cloud and Miles platform. This role is customer-facing, shaping infrastructure for Azure and Oracle Cloud, and working with product, security, and audit teams.

You’ll drive platform governance, infrastructure-as-code, and GitOps practices, ensuring secure, scalable, and compliant multi-tenant environments across customers.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience in platform and cloud architecture for an enterprise product.
• Proven track record designing and running production SaaS or cloud-native platforms at scale.
• Ability to influence decisions and carry mandate for platform architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and roadmap for SOFICO Cloud and Miles platform teams.
• Ensure upgrades, observability, and cost improvements scale across tenants.
• Explain architecture to customers and risk/audit teams; feed learnings into roadmaps.
• Define runtime contracts for Kubernetes, networking, IAM, storage, and more.

Skills

Kubernetes and container platforms

Azure experience

Infrastructure-as-Code

Multi-tenant platforms

Security by design

Observability and resilience

Data & integration infra

Secure connectivity

Stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

FluxCD

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

At SOFICO, we’re building the future of mobility through Miles, our market-leading platform for leasing, fleet, and mobility operations worldwide. As an international team, we combine innovation, collaboration, and ownership to deliver real impact for our customers, in a culture of continuous learning, mutual support, and shared success.

SOFICO is investing in the platform behind Miles. We are moving from a model where customers host Miles themselves to one where we run it for them, on SOFICO Cloud: standardized, single-tenant environments in Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Our customers are leasing companies, captive finance companies, and banks. The platform they move onto has to carry their operational demands and the regulatory obligations they work under.

From our Ghent office, As a Cloud (Platform) Architect, you’ll own the architecture and technical direction of SOFICO Cloud and the shared platform underneath Miles. You are the authority on platform infrastructure in two directions. Inside SOFICO, you set the direction our platform and product teams build towards. Outside, you explain and defend that architecture to customers, to their security and risk teams, and to their auditors.

Whatyou’ll do...

This is an architecture role with a customer-facing side. You own the answers to our customers' infrastructure questions: what we have built, why we built it that way, and what is coming next.

• Own the target architecture and roadmap for SOFICO Cloud and the shared platform capabilities Miles product teams build on. You set the architectural direction on both Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Make a fleet of isolated, single-tenant customer environments run like one platform: upgrades that land the same way everywhere, drift you can see and control, observability you can trust, and a cost base that improves as we scale.
• Make sure moving to SOFICO Cloud takes real work off our customers. The infrastructure, security, resilience and continuity they hand over become ours to run properly.
• Explain and defend the architecture of SOFICO Cloud to customers and to their security, risk and audit teams, and bring what you learn there back into the roadmap.
• Define the runtime contract product teams design within: Kubernetes, networking, identity and access management, storage, databases, messaging, observability, and service-to-service communication.
• Push platform and product engineering on the non-functionals: availability, scalability, performance, security, operability, recoverability, and cost.
• Own platform architecture decisions end to end. That means reviews, trade-offs, exceptions, and decision records people can still rely on a year later.
• Shape how environments are built and changed, through Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps and automation, so that a change to the fleet is repeatable and safe to audit.
• Build platform architecture into a practice at SOFICO, with standards, a regular review rhythm, and better infrastructure thinking among the architects and engineers you work with.

What you bring...

• Senior-level experience in platform and cloud architecture for an enterprise product.
• A track record designing and running production SaaS or cloud-native platforms at scale.
• The ability to get decisions closed through influence. You carry the mandate for platform architecture, with a clear escalation path.
• Credibility with regulated customers. You are comfortable in a room with a customer's security, risk and audit teams, and you can answer their questions about our architecture directly.
• Confidenc e setting technical direction and standards across teams that don’t report to you, and the appetite to bring other architects and engineers along with you.
• The judgement to sequence change well. Our customers run their business on Miles, so platform change gets planned, communicated and delivered without disruption to them.

Knowledge & Skills

Must have :

• Kubernetes and container platforms: AKS, workload architecture, cluster networking, storage, operators.
• Solid Azure experience, plus the confidence to make architectural decisions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Prior OCI exposure is a plus.
• Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps : Terraform, Ansible, FluxCD , Helm, Kustomize .
• Running multi-customer platforms: tenant isolation, secrets management, fleet-wide upgrades.
• Security by design: identity and access management, secrets, certificates, network security, least privilege.
• Observability and resilience at fleet scale: monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, capacity planning, high availability, disaster recovery.
• The assurance context our customers work in: DORA, ISO 27001, audit rights, continuity and exit expectations.
• Data and integration infrastructure: PostgreSQL, Oracle, Kafka, and the persistence and streaming.
• Secure connectivity between cloud and on-premise or customer-hosted environments, since parts of Miles Enterprise run there.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management; you work directly with platform engineering, product, security, operations, and customers.

What's in it for you…

• Competitive salary package.
• Meal allowance provided per working day.
• Group and hospitalisation insurance.
• Hybrid working and flexible hours, giving you the freedom to shape your workday.
• A modern co-working space offering a comfortable working environment.
• A structured onboarding program from day one, with a dedicated coach to help you get up to speed and grow in your role.
• Regular opportunities to connect beyond day-to-day work — casual drinks, team activities, and company-wide events.