What will you do?

As a Senior Solution / Software Architect, you will translate business and technology requirements into scalable solution architectures and provide architectural guidance to development teams and stakeholders.

Your responsibilities include:

• Defining solution architectures in line with roadmaps, architecture principles and guidelines
• Guiding development teams on architecture and technical design decisions
• Aligning designs and solutions across different stakeholders, teams and initiatives
• Assessing existing applications, platforms and components from both a technical and functional perspective
• Creating architecture documentation for new and existing solutions
• Driving initiatives to centralise, modernise, upgrade or replace applications and platforms
• Contributing to architecture principles, policies and development guidelines
• Supporting lifecycle decisions and business cases for front-office solutions
• Collaborating with international architecture and development teams
• Supporting integration architecture involving APIs, microservices and modular applications

What are we looking for?

• 5+ years of experience as a Solution Architect, preferably within a front-office or back-office application environment
• 3+ years of experience with ERP architecture, such as SAP or Oracle
• Experience with Master Data Management (MDM) and/or Product Information Management (PIM)
• Strong knowledge of C4 Model, TOGAF and/or ArchiMate
• Solid understanding of software architecture and common design patterns
• Strong experience with application and system integrations
• Knowledge of REST APIs, API integration patterns and microservices
• Experience working in Agile/SAFe environments
• Familiarity with AWS
• Experience with Jira, Confluence and Miro
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work with both technical and business stakeholders
• Experience working in international environments
• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Business Information Management or a related field

Nice to have

Experience with one or more of the following would be a strong advantage:

• SAP
• Salesforce
• Magento 2
• Python and/or Java
• Postman
• Modular software development
• Large-scale application modernisation

• The ideal candidate combines application architecture, ERP, integrations and software design experience and is comfortable providing technical direction to development teams.