Solutions Architect (Lisbon - Hybrid)

Claranet limited; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Claranet limited is seeking a Solutions Architect to design and integrate AI-native architectures for scalable AI/ML workloads across platforms. The role emphasizes security-by-design, cost-aware cloud strategy, and governance.

You will define standards, size infrastructure, and lead architecture reviews, while collaborating with diverse tech stacks and ensuring interoperability across systems in a telecom-regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7–8 years of experience in systems architecture.
• Hands-on profile with ability to code or work directly with platforms when needed.
• Experience with AI-native architectures and LLM patterns is required.
• Strong cloud architecture expertise for AI/ML workloads, including cost management and caching.
• Experience across diverse tech stacks (OutSystems, Salesforce, open-source, microservices).

Responsibilities

• Define standards and blueprints for AI integration across SDLC, Data, and Operations.
• Ensure interoperability between platforms.
• Manage technical debt and support legacy modernization initiatives.
• Design and size infrastructure for AI/ML workloads.
• Participate in Architecture Review Boards to assess new initiatives.
• Contribute to architecture governance and community.

Skills

AI-native architectures

Cloud architecture

Security-by-design

CI/CD

Observability

Vendor lock-in avoidance

Tools

OutSystems

Salesforce Agentforce

Open-source technologies

Event-driven architectures

Microservices

Job description

We're fast learners, hardworkers, natural collaborators... and weMake Modern Happen!

Our ambition is to unlock thepotential of our digital world so that organisations everywhere can innovateand thrive securely. We aim to achieve this goal by bringing together theworld’s most talented people and the most powerful technologies, combining themto address our customers' challenges and to build something stronger together.

Right now, weare looking for a Solutions Architect to integrate our Talent team.

Yourresponsibilities include:

• Define standards and blueprints for AIintegration across SDLC, Data, and Operations.
• Ensure interoperability between platforms.
• Manage technical debt and support legacymodernization initiatives.
• Design and size infrastructure for AI/MLworkloads.
• Participate in Architecture Review Boards toassess and validate new initiatives.
• Contribute to the broader architecture communityand governance framework.

Youmust have:

• Minimum of 7-8 years of experience in systemsarchitecture.
• A hands-on profile, comfortable working directlywith code and platforms when needed.
• Proven experience with AI-native architectures,including agent orchestration, production-grade LLM implementations, RAG(Retrieval-Augmented Generation) patterns, guardrails, and MCP (ModelContext Protocol).
• Strong cloud architecture expertise with a focuson AI/ML workloads, including cost management, rate limiting, andinference caching.
• Comfortable working across heterogeneoustechnology stacks, including OutSystems, Salesforce (Agentforce),open-source technologies, event-driven architectures, and microservices.
• Modular architectural mindset with a strong focuson avoiding vendor lock-in.
• Experience in regulated environments(telecommunications, banking, or insurance), with knowledge of GDPR andideally the EU AI Act.
• Security-by-design approach applied to AIsolutions, including vulnerability assessment of AI-generated code andarchitectural decision auditability.
• Experience with CI/CD practices, AI-poweredquality gates, and end-to-end observability.