Senior Solutions Architect

emagine; Portugal; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

emagine is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to define end-to-end solution architectures for enterprise-scale digital platforms, focusing on CIAM/IAM and Loyalty/CRM ecosystems. You will govern solution design and lead cross-functional discussions across product, engineering, security, data, and markets.

You will review APIs, events, contracts, drive governance, ensure scalability, security, resilience, and performance, and align stakeholders on architectural direction while operating in

Qualifications

• Strong Solution Architecture experience in enterprise-scale digital platforms.
• Translate business requirements into scalable solution designs.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Experience across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Security, Vendors, and Markets.
• Governance and delivery mindset.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end solution architectures and integration patterns.
• Review APIs, events, and domain contracts.
• Drive architecture governance, design reviews, and documentation.
• Validate scalability, security, resilience, and performance requirements.
• Align business, product, and engineering teams on architectural direction.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Stakeholder management

Influencing skills

Communication

Agile working

Delivery mindset

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Git

Jira

Confluence

Job description

with strong experience in consumer-facing digital platforms, combining expertise in Customer Identity (CIAM/IAM) and Loyalty/CRM ecosystems. Able to define target architectures, govern solution design, and lead cross-functional discussions across product, engineering, security, data, and market teams.

Main Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end solution architectures and integration patterns.
• Review APIs, events, and domain contracts.
• Drive architecture governance, design reviews, and documentation.
• Validate scalability, security, resilience, and performance requirements.
• Align business, product, and engineering teams on architectural direction.

Key Requirements

• Strong Solution Architecture experience in enterprise-scale digital platforms.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable solution designs.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Comfortable working across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Security, Vendors, and Markets.
• Pragmatic architect with a governance and delivery mindset.
• Excellent communicator and facilitator.
• Strong stakeholder leader capable of influencing without authority.
• Collaborative and agile way of working.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and driving decisions.
• Balances strategic thinking with hands-on delivery execution.

Nice to Have

• Experience in Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM).
• Knowledge of Loyalty, CRM, customer engagement, and customer data platforms.
• Exposure to regulated consumer data environments.
• Experience with microservices and cloud-native solution design.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, Git, Jira, and Confluence.

Other Details

This role includes supporting two architects: one from CIAM who is overloaded and one from Loyalty who is new and still being onboarded. It requires analyzing big picture integration architecture with a focus on APIs, artifacts, and stakeholder management. Previous experience as a senior Tech Lead is preferred.