Lead Solution Architect - Cloud-Native & Resilience

Axians Portugal

Lisboa

In loco

EUR 70.000 - 100.000

Tempo pieno

14 giorni+

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Descrizione del lavoro

Axians Portugal seeks a Solution Architecture Lead to build and lead a team of Architects, translating long-term architecture into pragmatic guidance. You will drive alignment across enterprise, product, and engineering to deliver scalable, secure distributed systems.

You will shape the roadmap, manage technical debt, and ensure high availability, DR, and resilience across platforms while collaborating with cross-functional teams. This is a demanding, strategic leadership role in Portugal.

Competenze

Degree in computer science or equivalent background.
Several years of professional experience in Software or Solution Architecture.
Leadership experience (e.g., team lead, chapter lead, technical lead, architecture manager).
Strong hands-on background in software engineering with modern programming languages, cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and distributed systems.
Understanding of architecture concepts for high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
Ability to balance speed of delivery with system robustness while managing technical debt to align long-term architectural health with short-term business goals.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Strategic mindset combined with practical execution capability.
Excellent English skills (written and spoken).
Willingness to travel occasionally within Europe.

Mansioni

Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of Solution Architects.
Own the Solution Architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap across multiple engineering domains in close alignment with Enterprise Architecture.
Drive end-to-end architectural alignment across business capabilities, ensuring that solutions work seamlessly across different domains.
Actively manage, reduce, and control technical debt to maintain long-term agility and system health.
Proactively evolve architecture and platforms to enable the rapid and reliable delivery of future business features.
Drive measurable improvements in system availability and resilience by defining and enforcing architectural standards for high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and risk management (including NIS2).
Establish measurable reliability practices, including resilience reviews, maturity assessments, and failure testing.
Provide hands-on guidance to product teams and engineers designing and building scalable, secure, cloud-native, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
Ensure strategic and technical alignment between Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Product while promoting modern architectural patterns and governance (e.g., event-driven systems, domain-driven design, APIfirst).