Area Architect — Lead Scalable Messaging Platform

Novax; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days vacation

Bike lease

Breakfast buffet

In-house gym

Gadget package

Wellness allowance

Parental leave top-up

Wellness hour

Job summary

Voyado is seeking an Area Architect to set the technical direction across the Communication Area. You’ll work with engineering teams, tech leads, Area Leadership, and fellow architects to balance today’s delivery with the platform’s long-term evolution.

You’ll challenge assumptions, identify risks, and guide decisions that affect scalability, reliability, and performance. The role requires leadership across multiple teams and deep experience with distributed systems and event-driven

Qualifications

• Architectural leadership experience across multiple teams or domains, with a track record of guiding others toward consistent technical direction as a technical lead, architect or senior engineer.
• Deep experience with distributed systems and event-driven architecture, including asynchronous processing, message queuing, delivery guarantees, retry strategies, idempotency, and fault tolerance
• Experience with communication or messaging systems at scale, ideally covering several parts of the lifecycle from content creation and personalization to scheduling, delivery, and tracking
• Experience designing integration architectures involving external systems or providers, such as email, SMS, push, or similar delivery services

Responsibilities

• Shape the technical direction of the Communication Area together with tech leads, engineering teams, and Area Leadership
• Guide teams through architectural trade-offs around scalability, reliability, performance, developer experience, and long-term maintainability
• Review and challenge significant technical proposals, exploring alternatives and strengthening designs before decisions become difficult to reverse
• Look beyond today’s roadmap to identify emerging technical risks, opportunities, and foundational investments that will matter in the years ahead
• Facilitate architectural discussions across teams, creating shared direction rather than isolated solutions
• Coach tech leads and senior engineers, helping them strengthen their architectural thinking and technical leadership
• Collaborate with architects across Voyado to ensure the Communication Area evolves as part of a coherent Engage platform

Skills

Architectural leadership

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Communication/messaging systems

Tools

.NET/C#

Azure

Templating systems

CRM/CDP/Martech

Job description

Voyado is seeking an Area Architect to set the technical direction across the Communication Area. You’ll work with engineering teams, tech leads, Area Leadership, and fellow architects to balance today’s delivery with the platform’s long-term evolution.

You’ll challenge assumptions, identify risks, and guide decisions that affect scalability, reliability, and performance. The role requires leadership across multiple teams and deep experience with distributed systems and event-driven