Solution Architecture Lead - (Remote - 1X Month - Lisbon)

Sysmatch; Lisboa; Híbrido; EUR 40 000 - 50 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Training plan

Young and dynamic teams

Exciting projects

Resumo da oferta

Sysmatch in Portugal is seeking a Solution Architecture Lead (Remote - 1x Month - Lisbon) to build and lead a high-performing team of solution architects, aligning architecture with enterprise strategy and driving end-to-end delivery across domains. The role requires a strong software engineering background, hands-on with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure), and excellent English communication.

Occasional travel within Europe is expected.

Qualificações

• Degree in computer science or equivalent professional background.
• Several years of professional experience in Software or Solution Architecture.
• Leadership experience (e.g., team lead, chapter lead, technical lead, architecture manager).
• Hands-on background in software engineering with modern programming languages, cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and distributed systems.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent English skills (written and spoken).
• Willingness to travel occasionally within Europe.

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 rapid and reliable delivery of future features.
• Drive improvements in system availability and resilience by defining architectural standards for high availability, DR, and risk management.
• Establish measurable reliability practices, including resilience reviews, maturity assessments, and failure testing.
• Provide hands-on guidance to product teams and engineers designing scalable, secure, cloud-native, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Ensure alignment between Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Product with modern architectural patterns and governance.

Conhecimentos

Solution Architecture

Leadership

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

English proficiency

Formação académica

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Ferramentas

AWS

Azure

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Sysmatch is a Portuguese company that has been on the IT market for almost 20 years. Our core business is IT Outsourcing and Software Development for the finance sector. We invest a lot of effort on our client relationships and always deliver the best candidate or product available for their need and that is the main reason behind our success!At the moment we are looking for the following candidate:

Solution Architecture Lead - (Remote - 1x Month - Lisbon)

Responsibilities:

• 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, API first).

Profile:

• Degree in computer science or equivalent professional 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.

Salary Range:

€40k - €50k Gross/Annual + Other Components/Benefits.

What we offer:

• - Salary classification according to the experience shown;
• - Good working environment with young and dynamic teams;
• - Integration into exciting and technologically innovative projects;
• - Training plan and opportunities;