Lead Solution Architect: Cloud-Native Strategy

IRIUM; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 26,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Hybrid work model

Flexible remuneration

Job summary

IRIUM in Lisbon, Portugal, seeks a Solution Architecture Lead to steer architectural direction across engineering and product teams. You will guide design discussions, set standards, and mentor architects and developers in a hybrid work environment.

Candidates should hold a CS degree or equivalent, possess years of architecture experience, hands-on coding skills, and strong leadership. The role offers a hybrid schedule, competitive salary, and health benefits.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Several years of professional experience in Software or Solution Architecture
• Proven leadership in roles such as Team Lead, Technical Lead, Architecture Manager or similar
• Strong hands-on background in software engineering and modern programming languages
• Experience with AWS or Microsoft Azure and distributed cloud-native systems
• Experience designing scalable, secure, fault-tolerant and highly available solutions
• Understanding of High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
• Experience defining and enforcing architectural standards and governance practices
• Ability to manage technical debt and support long-term evolution of applications and platforms
• Experience aligning technical architecture with business objectives and product requirements
• Ability to balance delivery speed with robustness and maintainability
• Experience providing hands-on architectural guidance to engineering and product teams
• Ability to collaborate across Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Security and Product
• Strong strategic thinking with practical execution
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Willingness to travel occasionally within Europe

Skills

Software Architecture

Team Leadership

AWS/Azure

Distributed Systems

High Availability

Governance

Technical Debt

Stakeholder Management

English Proficiency

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Job description

IRIUM in Lisbon, Portugal, seeks a Solution Architecture Lead to steer architectural direction across engineering and product teams. You will guide design discussions, set standards, and mentor architects and developers in a hybrid work environment.

Candidates should hold a CS degree or equivalent, possess years of architecture experience, hands-on coding skills, and strong leadership. The role offers a hybrid schedule, competitive salary, and health benefits.