Solution Architecture Lead - (Remote - 1X Month - Lisbon) M/F

Sysmatch; Lisboa; Remote; EUR 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary classification according to the

Good working environment with young/dn

Exciting and innovative projects

Training plan and opportunities

Job summary

Sysmatch seeks a Solution Architecture Lead to build and lead a high-performing team of architects. You will own the architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap across domains, aligning with Enterprise Architecture and coordinating with product teams across Europe.

This remote-friendly role focuses on driving end-to-end architectural alignment, reducing technical debt, and enabling rapid, reliable delivery of features for finance clients. Strong English and cloud experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science or equivalent background.
• Several years of software/solution architecture experience.
• Leadership experience (team lead/architecture manager).
• Hands-on software engineering with cloud platforms and distributed systems.
• Excellent English communication both written and spoken.
• Willingness to travel occasionally within Europe.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of Solution Architects.
• Own the Solution Architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap across domains.
• Drive end-to-end architectural alignment across business capabilities.
• Actively manage technical debt to maintain long-term agility.
• Evolve architecture and platforms for rapid feature delivery.
• Improve system availability and resilience through standards.
• Provide hands-on guidance to product teams on scalable, secure systems.
• Ensure alignment between Engineering, EA, Security, and Product with governance.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Distributed systems

English proficiency

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

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;