Senior Solution Architect: Cloud, APIs & Enterprise Architecture

Nilfisk; København; Hybrid; DKK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Nilfisk’s Digital Product department is hiring its first Solution Architect to unify our product landscape and define target architecture. You will own cross-team decisions, shape shared building blocks, and set patterns and standards that teams actually use.

You’ll collaborate with security, DevOps and product owners to deliver scalable, secure and operable solutions. Expect to coach teams, document decisions and diagrams, and drive architectural governance across portfolios, ensuring a common

Qualifications

• Substantial experience as a solution architect across a portfolio of products, including setting the architecture other teams build within.
• A track record of evaluating proposals and existing solutions and giving an organisation a clear architectural answer with a rationale.
• Hands-on depth in modern application architecture: APIs, event-driven integration, microservices where they earn their keep and modular monoliths where they do not.
• Production experience with cloud-native architecture on Microsoft Azure, including the platform services, data stores and integration services.
• Experience designing user-facing digital products (web, mobile, portals) and integrating them with enterprise systems such as ERP and CRM.
• Experience working inside an enterprise architecture you do not control, aligning product architecture with IT-owned systems, standards and governance.
• Professional English, written and spoken

Responsibilities

• The target architecture for the Digital Product portfolio, and a realistic roadmap to get there from where we are.
• The principles, reference architectures and design standards teams work within, and the boundaries between products and teams.
• The shared building blocks: integration and event patterns, API standards, identity, and how data is owned and shared across products.
• Architectural evaluation of new work: proposals, roadmaps, partner technologies, cost to run, and a clear early answer with reasoning.
• Honest assessment of existing systems on a regular cadence, with a clear statement of what needs to change.
• Security and GDPR privacy by design integrated into architecture, working with Security and DevOps.
• Design reviews for internal teams and external partners, early enough for meaningful feedback.
• The architecture record: decisions documented, diagrams kept current.
• Growing architectural judgement in teams through coaching and pairing.

Job description

Nilfisk’s Digital Product department is hiring its first Solution Architect to unify our product landscape and define target architecture. You will own cross-team decisions, shape shared building blocks, and set patterns and standards that teams actually use.

You’ll collaborate with security, DevOps and product owners to deliver scalable, secure and operable solutions. Expect to coach teams, document decisions and diagrams, and drive architectural governance across portfolios, ensuring a common