OutSystems Tech Lead

outsystems; Portugal; Presencial; EUR 85 000 - 110 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

OutSystems is seeking a senior software architect to own system architecture across the OutSystems estate, guiding live and SaaS products with a focus on correctness and production readiness. You will lead a small, autonomous team, mentor engineers, set technical standards, and explore AI-enabled approaches to accelerate delivery while maintaining portfolio integrity and high quality.

The role balances innovation with keeping existing systems healthy, ensuring alignment with product goals and

Qualificações

• Design and own system architecture across the OutSystems estate.
• Set development principles and ensure live systems meet production readiness.
• Lead a small, high-autonomy team with a clear standard of correctness.
• Mentor engineers and drive high quality in delivery and architecture.

Responsabilidades

• Architect system design across OutSystems portfolio.
• Guarantee production readiness and overall delivery quality.
• Provide technical direction to a small, autonomous team.
• Maintain portfolio integrity and avoid debt.
• Explore AI-enabled approaches to accelerate delivery.

Conhecimentos

Software architecture

System design

Technical leadership

Production readiness

Mentoring

AI tools awareness

Stakeholder alignment

Code quality

Descrição da oferta de emprego

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About the OutSystems Digital Team

We are the digital backbone of OutSystems’ growth - building the enterprise applications, integrations, and digital products that run the company’s operations and accelerate it into the AI-powered era. We work in small, high-autonomy teams of two to five people, each with a clear mission and the authority to ship. We take both craft and speed seriously, and we expect the people who join us to do the same.

About the Role

You will join an existing team and take technical ownership of a portfolio of live OutSystems products and SaaS, while leading the delivery of new capabilities that solve the organisation’s most important problems.

This is a hands-on role. You write code, not just review it - you stay close enough to the work that your standard for correctness is earned, not assumed.

This is a role for someone who commits to the outcomes and success of their work. You take responsibility for the quality of what is already running and correctness of everything new that gets built. Those two things reinforce each other - the same standard of judgment that protects live systems is what makes new systems worth building.

Most of your focus - roughly seventy percent - will go into innovation: new applications, new integrations, new capabilities that did not exist before. The remaining thirty percent keeps the existing portfolio healthy, coherent, and evolving. That balance is a principle, not a ceiling: when a live system needs attention, it gets it.

What You Will Own

The technical architecture - you design and build system architecture across the OutSystems estate based on real business needs and drivers, and you own the development principles the team works against.

The quality bar for everything the team ships - new features and live systems alike. You are the final call on production readiness, and you guarantee overall delivery quality and OutSystems engineering behaviours.

Technical direction of a small, high-autonomy team - not through process and approvals, but through a clear standard of correctness that everyone can verify their work against.

Portfolio integrity across built-for-purpose OutSystems applications - understanding the existing applications well enough to extend them without accumulating hidden debt, and well enough to know when something needs to be rebuilt rather than patched.

The ecosystem view - understanding the key systems and integrations that surround your applications and the role each plays, rather than restricting your attention to your own modules.

People growth - mentoring the team, working on individual strengths and weaknesses, and inspiring commitment while keeping expectations aligned.

Fast validation of new approaches - when there is uncertainty about a technology, a pattern, or an architecture, you explore quickly and return with a clear recommendation rather than committing the team to an untested path.

The Behaviours We Are Looking For

You have reached the level of system-level judgment where you can set direction and let the team execute against it. Here is what that looks like in practice:

You evaluate at the system level. Your first question about any piece of work is not 'does it run?' but 'is it right?' - architecturally, strategically, and in the context of everything else the team maintains.

You act as a role model for best practices. You define good software architecture principles and methodologies, seek out the knowledge to make informed decisions aligned with the company’s vision, and never propose quick fixes that ignore the future.

You strive for the optimal solution but understand the trade-offs. You know when to stretch the boundaries to hit a business objective, and you never let tech debt go unacknowledged. You are neither rigid nor careless.

You have a global understanding of the technology, and you use AI to move faster. You research, you network with peers, and you keep an open mindset for new technologies - then you put that knowledge into practice rather than restricting yourself to what you already know. AI tools are part of how you build and how you expect the team to build, not an occasional shortcut, and you stay curious across the whole landscape - AI, integrations, other platforms - reaching for whatever fits the business problem rather than forcing every problem through the tools you already know.

You align with the business rather than defer to it. You work with product owners and stakeholders to understand the real problem, foster active communication, and challenge requests that do not support the business goal - instead of blindly accepting what you are told.

You care about the team, not just the deliverables. You help the team overcome difficulties rather than absorbing every problem yourself or ignoring the pains they are carrying.

You adapt your communication to your audi