Solution Architect - Far Site - Within Europe

SEIDOR; Brussel Hoofdstad; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SEIDOR is seeking a senior Solution Architect to lead the design of comprehensive architectures for digital solutions across Europe. You will collaborate with stakeholders, evaluate technologies, and create architectural artifacts ensuring scalability, security and reliability.

Key responsibilities include defining integration patterns, API standards and governance, and guiding development teams through secure coding practices and threat modelling.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in programming languages such as Java, Python, or equivalent.
• 12 years of experience in systems and software architecture design.
• 10 years of experience using microservices architecture and API management to design modular solutions.
• 10 years of experience with IBM DB2, FileNet or equivalent.
• 7 years of experience with DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• 15 years of experience in enterprise applications and middleware.
• 10 years of experience using networking concepts and protocols.
• 10 years of experience using observability and monitoring practices.
• 10 years of experience using architecture governance and documentation practices.
• 10 years of experience translating architectures into business language.
• 10 years of experience adjusting architectures to emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop comprehensive business and technical architectures for digital solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyse requirements.
• Evaluate and select appropriate technologies and frameworks.
• Create and maintain architectural artifacts (C4, API contracts, data models, threat models).
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and reliable.
• Conduct architecture and code reviews for enterprise standards and OWASP guidelines.
• Identify and mitigate potential risks and technical challenges.
• Assess emerging technologies and provide leadership to development teams.
• Define integration patterns, data flows, and API standards for coherent system interactions.
• Incorporate observability and resiliency patterns into designs.

Skills

Solution architecture

Microservices

API management

OpenAPI/AsyncAPI

DevSecOps

OWASP secure coding

Threat modelling

Cloud architecture

Security architecture

Java/Python

C4 diagrams

Education

Bachelor level degree or higher in a relevant field

Tools

REST

GraphQL

OpenAPI

AsyncAPI

OWASP

GitLab/Jenkins/Azure DevOps

Job description

At SEIDOR, we help drive the transformation and competitiveness of our clients through technology and innovation, always focusing on the value of the human side and being committed to talent and sustainable development.

We are a diverse and inclusive organization that believes in equal opportunities. We already have over 8,000 professionals in 45 countries across Europe, Latin America, the United States, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

ARE YOU UP FOR THE CHALLENGE?

We want you to be a part of our team, from any European country, as a Solution Architect.

Nature of the main tasks

• 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 analyse requirements.
• Evaluating and selecting 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.
• Conduct architecture and code reviews to ensure adherence to enterprise standards and secure coding guidelines (such as Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) or equivalent) 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 (such as event-driven, Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) or equivalent), data flows, and API standards (such as OpenAPI, AsyncAPI or equivalent) 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 architecture, including identity management,
  secrets handling, encryption, and conduct threat modelling (such STRIDE or
  equivalent) to identify and mitigate risks.

Join our team and help us humanize the world through technology!

Requirements

• 10 years of experience in programming languages such as Java, Python, or equivalent.
• 12 years of experience in systems and software architecture design.
• 10 years of experience using microservices architecture and API management (such REST, GraphQL or OpenAPI, or equivalent) to design modular and reusable solutions.
• 10 years of experience working with IBM DB2, FileNet or equivalent.
• 7 years of experience working with DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines (such as GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps or equivalent) to ensure continuous integration and reliable deployments.
• 15 years of experience in enterprise applications and middleware.
• 10 years of experience using networking concepts and protocols.
• 10 years of experience using observability and monitoring practices (such as logging, tracing, metrics or equivalent) to ensure system reliability and resilience.
• 10 years of experience using architecture governance and documentation practices (such as decision records, C4 diagrams, architecture reviews or equivalent).
• 10 years of experience simplifying technical architectures into business-relevant
  language.
• 10 years of experience adjusting architectures to reflect emerging technologies.

Certificates and/or Standards:

One of the following or an equivalent certification:

• recognised software development certification
• product-specialised IBM software certification

Nice to have:

• 10 years of experience using case management systems or similar, i.e. systems
  managing documents and / or files with workflow, business rules, database management and back-office functionality for querying, analysis or reporting.
• 2 years of experience of EU rules on data protection.