Technical Solution Architect

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

Job Description

Ciklum is looking for a Technical Solution Architect to join our team full-time in Spain.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About The Role

As a Technical Solution Architect, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

Clientis a leading global payments platform that connects businesses and consumers across 260 payment types in over 40 countries. With over 20 years of experience and an annual transaction volume exceeding $150 billion, Client is a powerhouse in digital wallets (Skrill, NETELLER), eCash solutions, and merchant acquiring. In 2026, Client is undergoing a massive AI transformation. You will be joining the Intelligent Automation & AI Engineering initiative with the goal of replacing manual decision-making workflows with reliable, auditable AI-assisted systems. You will work in an automation COE, collaborating with a centralised AI Platform team, IT, Dev Ops etc.

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

Requirements

• 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

What's in it for you?

• Care: your mental and physical health is our priority. We ensure comprehensive company-paid medical insurance and 4 additional undocumented sick leave days
• Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy license, language courses and company-paid certifications
• Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
• Flexibility: Own your schedule – you are the one to decide when to start your working day. Just don’t miss your regular team stand-up. We are there to support your work-life balance and provide 23 vacation days.
• Opportunities: we value our specialists and always find the best options for them. Our Internal Mobility Program helps change a project if needed to help you grow, excel professionally and fulfill your potential
• Global impact: work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients
• Welcoming environment: feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company and regular team-building events

About Us

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

Based in Málaga, our team thrives in one of Andalusia’s leading tech hubs. Enjoy a hybrid work setup, the sunny Mediterranean vibe, and endless opportunities to grow your skills on global-scale projects.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!