Area Architect: Scalable, Real-Time Messaging Platform

Voyado; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days vacation

Bike lease with e-bikes

Breakfast buffet on Fridays

In-house gym for Voyadoers

Gadget-and-phone package

Wellness allowance

Parental leave top-up

Wellness hour weekly

Job summary

Voyado is seeking an Area Architect to set the technical direction for the Communication Area, collaborating with engineering teams, tech leads, and Area Leadership. You will balance today’s delivery with long-term platform evolution, addressing scalability, reliability, and maintainability across the Engage platform.

You’ll review major proposals, assess risks, and guide multi-team decisions while coaching senior engineers and ensuring alignment with Voyado’s broader architecture strategy.

Qualifications

• Architectural leadership experience across multiple teams or domains.
• 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.
• Experience with .NET/C#, Azure, high-volume transactional databases, content rendering or templating systems, or related martech/CRM/CDP/email marketing products is highly valued.

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 for 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

Integration architectures

.NET/C#

Azure

High-volume databases

Content rendering/templating

Martech/CRM/CDP/email marketing

Tools

None

Job description

Voyado is seeking an Area Architect to set the technical direction for the Communication Area, collaborating with engineering teams, tech leads, and Area Leadership. You will balance today’s delivery with long-term platform evolution, addressing scalability, reliability, and maintainability across the Engage platform.

You’ll review major proposals, assess risks, and guide multi-team decisions while coaching senior engineers and ensuring alignment with Voyado’s broader architecture strategy.