Senior Technical Solution Architect — Fintech & AI/Cloud

Ciklum; Málaga; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Udemy license

Language courses

Certifications

23 vacation days

Job summary

Ciklum is seeking a Technical Solution Architect to join our Málaga-based team on a hybrid basis in Spain. You will drive enterprise architecture, define standards, and lead R&D initiatives to evaluate and adopt new tools and trends. You will mentor cross-functional teams and shape scalable, reusable platform components.

The role emphasizes governance, deployment excellence, and collaboration with IT, DevOps, and product teams to align technical direction with business goals.

Qualifications

• Proven executive or senior-level architectural leadership experience within high-scale enterprise environments (preferably Fintech or Payments).
• Deep technical expertise in enterprise software design, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and microservices architecture.
• Strong track record of establishing organizational technology governance frameworks and engineering quality standards.
• Hands-on experience leading R&D efforts, prototyping emerging tech, and successfully transitioning innovations into production.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineering teams, foster continuous learning, and elevate collective technical capabilities.
• Extensive experience building reusable core libraries, SDKs, and developer-facing platform tooling.
• Mastery of modern deployment strategies, infrastructure-as-code, pipeline automation, and high-availability operational architectures.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and strategic visioning skills to bridge business and engineering priorities.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and drive the overarching technical architecture strategy, aligning technology initiatives with core business objectives
• Define, establish, and enforce enterprise architecture standards, engineering principles, and governance frameworks across engineering teams
• Spearhead emerging technology research and R&D initiatives to evaluate new tools, frameworks, and trends for business integration
• Cultivate and scale shared skills, technical competencies, and engineering best practices across cross-functional tech organizations
• Establish continuous improvement programs to optimize engineering performance, code quality, and system scalability
• Oversee the development, maintenance, and adoption of centralized internal libraries, common components, and shared services
• Design, standardize, and champion robust deployment patterns, CI/CD practices, and cloud-native operational architectures

Skills

Senior architectural leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Engineering governance

R&D leadership

Mentoring engineers

Reusable libraries/SDKs

CI/CD & deployment patterns

Stakeholder management

Job description

Ciklum is seeking a Technical Solution Architect to join our Málaga-based team on a hybrid basis in Spain. You will drive enterprise architecture, define standards, and lead R&D initiatives to evaluate and adopt new tools and trends. You will mentor cross-functional teams and shape scalable, reusable platform components.

The role emphasizes governance, deployment excellence, and collaboration with IT, DevOps, and product teams to align technical direction with business goals.