System Architect & Application Owner — Hybrid Madrid

EPAM Systems; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

EPAM Employees Stock Purchase Plan

100% paid sick leave

Referral Program

Professional certification

Language courses

Job summary

EPAM Systems in Madrid, Spain, is seeking a System Architect (Application Responsible) to own a critical internal application built on the Actico Rules platform. The role blends hands-on technical work with architectural decision-making in a hybrid work model.

You will ensure availability, stability and enterprise compliance while guiding lifecycle planning, modernization and target architectures across functional and infrastructure teams in a regulated financial services environment.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• Proven experience managing operational lifecycle of front/middle-office banking systems.
• Proficiency in monitoring tools, integration patterns, SQL and Git/JIRA.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, secure design patterns and Java-based system engineering.

Responsibilities

• Take full accountability for application stability, performance and lifecycle planning.
• Serve as the primary contact for operational, functional and technical queries.
• Conduct periodic health checks, performance tuning and capacity forecasting.
• Control and govern application changes, including risk assessments and rollback strategies.
• Coordinate with development and infrastructure teams to resolve incidents and implement updates.
• Maintain accurate and comprehensive application documentation (runbooks, service catalogs).
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects on enhancements, integrations and target architectures.
• Ensure compliance with IT security baselines, integration standards and cloud-first principles.
• Guide modularization efforts, API exposures, observability frameworks and migration strategies.
• Identify and address technical debt, scalability issues and modernization opportunities.
• Promote service reusability for shared technologies (logging, monitoring, identity management).

Skills

Banking systems lifecycle management

Java-based system engineering

Enterprise architecture principles

Secure design patterns

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Tools

Git/JIRA

Oracle SQL

Application monitoring tools

Web services / Messaging queues

Database schema design

Job description

EPAM Systems in Madrid, Spain, is seeking a System Architect (Application Responsible) to own a critical internal application built on the Actico Rules platform. The role blends hands-on technical work with architectural decision-making in a hybrid work model.

You will ensure availability, stability and enterprise compliance while guiding lifecycle planning, modernization and target architectures across functional and infrastructure teams in a regulated financial services environment.