Job Type: Contractor

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Design and develop comprehensive business and technical architectures for digital solutions to meet business needs, defining measurable non-functional requirements.

Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements.

Evaluate and select appropriate technologies and frameworks.

Create and maintain key architectural artifacts, including Solution Context diagrams, C4 model views, API contracts, data models, threat models, and deployment diagrams.

Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and reliable.

Guide development teams during implementation phases.

Conduct architecture and code reviews to ensure adherence to enterprise standards and secure coding guidelines (e.g. Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)) throughout the implementation lifecycle.

Identify and mitigate potential risks and technical challenges.

Assess and incorporate emerging technologies.

Provide technical leadership and support to development teams and other stakeholders.

Define integration patterns (e.g. event-driven, Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP)), data flows, and API standards (OpenAPI/AsyncAPI) to ensure coherent and scalable system interactions.

Incorporate observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and resiliency patterns (e.g., circuit breakers, retries) into solution designs to ensure system reliability and maintainability.

Support the development of security architectures, including identity management, secrets handling, encryption, and conduct threat modelling (e.g. STRIDE) to identify and mitigate risks.

SPECIFIC EXPERTISE AND TECHNOLOGIES

Proficiency in systems and software architecture design.

Knowledge of cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, OVH) and ability to design architectures that leverage native services to minimise custom development. Knowledge of enterprise applications and middleware.

Knowledge of microservices architecture and API management (e.g., REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI) to design modular and reusable solutions.

Understanding of database management systems and data modelling.

Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps) to ensure continuous integration and reliable deployments.

Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, etc.

Knowledge of cybersecurity principles and standards (e.g., ISO 27001, OWASP, Zero Trust) to ensure secure solution design.

Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

Knowledge of networking concepts and protocols.

Knowledge of observability and monitoring practices (e.g., logging, tracing, metrics) to ensure system reliability and resilience.

Knowledge of architecture governance and documentation practices (e.g., decision records, C4 diagrams, architecture reviews).

Proven experience with AXON server, KAFKA, Elastic Search

Proven experience with an API Gateway – WSO2 API, Amazon API Gateway, Azure API Gateway, Google Cloud Apigee.

In depth knowledge of CSDR

SKILLS

Capacity to collaborate across teams and communicate architectural concepts.

Skill in simplifying technical architectures into business-relevant language.

Competence in anticipating future needs and designing scalable solutions.

Talent for working across teams to ensure integrated outcomes.

Ability to engage stakeholders to gather requirements and secure buy-in.

Capacity to adjust architectures to reflect emerging technologies.

Deadline 12/11/26

Delivery mode: Remote from EU Countries

Level: Senior/Expert, more than 15 years of IT Experience

Must be an EU national due to the nature of tasks the candidate will be required to access sensitive data.

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