Solution Architecture Lead: Cloud-Native & Resilience

Excelia; Lisboa; Híbrido; EUR 70 000 - 95 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Excelia in Lisbon seeks a Solutions Architecture Lead to guide a high-performing team and align architecture across engineering domains. You will own the vision, strategy, and roadmap, drive technical debt reduction, and ensure reliable delivery of future features in a cloud-native, secure environment.

The role requires strong leadership, excellent English skills, and the ability to travel occasionally within Europe. Hybrid work includes 1 day a week in the office.

Qualificações

• Degree in computer science or equivalent professional background.
• Several years of professional experience in Software or Solution Architecture.
• Leadership experience (team lead, chapter lead, technical lead, architecture manager).

Responsabilidades

• 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).

Conhecimentos

Leadership experience

English proficiency

Communication & stakeholder management

Architectural design

Strategic thinking

Distributed systems

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Ferramentas

AWS

Azure

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Excelia in Lisbon seeks a Solutions Architecture Lead to guide a high-performing team and align architecture across engineering domains. You will own the vision, strategy, and roadmap, drive technical debt reduction, and ensure reliable delivery of future features in a cloud-native, secure environment.

The role requires strong leadership, excellent English skills, and the ability to travel occasionally within Europe. Hybrid work includes 1 day a week in the office.