Technical Architect

Job Description

The Technical Architect will serve as the technical point of reference, with the objective of transforming business goals into robust, evolvable, secure, and operable architectures. They will lead end-to-end technical architecture design, establish technical and non-functional criteria, support the team during implementation, and ensure that deliverables meet the quality, performance, resilience, and security levels required by a critical enterprise platform.

Responsibilities

• Define the end-to-end technical architecture of the project, including components, integrations, data flows, dependencies, and boundaries of responsibility.

• Make and document architectural decisions using ADRs, evaluating alternatives, trade-offs, evolution costs, risks, and operational consequences.

• Translate functional and non-functional requirements into implementable designs, technical acceptance criteria, and an evolution roadmap.

• Design scalable and resilient distributed solutions, considering consistency, concurrency, idempotency, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.

• Participate in the development of critical components and conduct code reviews focused on design, maintainability, security, and operational behavior.

• Define the testing and quality strategy: unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, performance, resilience, and security testing.

• Design and review APIs, integration contracts, persistence schemas, and compatibility and evolution mechanisms.

• Evaluate performance and capacity through analysis, profiling, load testing, and the definition of measurable latency and throughput targets.

• Ensure the automation of builds, validations, static analysis, deployments, and quality controls within CI/CD pipelines.

• Integrate secure-by-design principles, threat modeling, secrets management, access control, and traceability into the architecture.

• Identify technical risks, structural debt, and bottlenecks; prioritize their remediation and communicate their impact on timeline, cost, and scope.

• Participate in planning complex deliveries, technical estimations, milestone definition, and tracking architectural commitments.

Qualifications

• More than 4 years of experience as a Technical Architect, with demonstrable experience leading the design and delivery of platforms or projects of high technical complexity.

• At least 5 years of experience in software development and in Java, Spring Boot, APIs, persistence, distributed systems, automated testing, and CI/CD.

• Experience in regulated or financial environments with high availability, performance, security, and traceability requirements.

• Experience conducting architecture reviews, defining standards, managing technical debt, and evolving existing systems.

• Experience working with Agile methodologies and collaborating cross-functionally with Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Business teams.

• Advanced experience with Java 21, Spring Boot 3.x, and designing mission-critical enterprise applications.

• Mastery of microservices architecture, distributed systems, synchronous and asynchronous integration, and communication patterns.

• In-depth knowledge of REST API design, contracts, versioning, backward compatibility, and integration governance.

• Experience with Spring Data JPA, data modeling, transactions, PostgreSQL, and query and persistence optimization.

• Experience with Gradle or Maven, multi-module projects or composite builds, dependency management, and build automation.

• Mastery of SOLID principles, DDD, Clean Architecture, design patterns, and refactoring and safe evolution techniques.

• Experience defining testing strategies using JUnit 5, Mockito, AssertJ, as well as contract, integration, and performance testing.

• Solid knowledge of concurrency, caching, messaging, idempotency, consistency, resilience, and fault tolerance.

• Experience with Git, code reviews, branching strategies, and collaborative development practices at scale.

• Experience with CI/CD, automated quality, static analysis, artifact management, and controlled deployments.

• Knowledge of observability: structured logs, metrics, distributed traces, alerting, and production diagnostics.

Languages

• Minimum B2 English level, mandatory. A professional level is required to lead decisions and collaborate with international teams.

• Spanish – professional level, minimum B2, mandatory.

Nice to Have

• Experience in the architecture of financial platforms, corporate banking, trading, or high-criticality transactional systems.

• Experience with event-driven architectures, Kafka, or other messaging and distributed processing platforms.

• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud, and deployment patterns such as blue-green, canary, and rolling releases.

• Experience applying OAuth2, OpenID Connect, threat modeling, secrets management, and application security controls.

• Knowledge of SRE, SLO/SLI, capacity, high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

• Experience in application modernization, progressive migrations, the strangler pattern, and technical debt reduction.

• Experience defining architecture standards, technical reviews, and governance models in large organizations.

• Domain knowledge of Trade Finance or Documentary Trade.

Additional Information

What do we offer you?

• Full-time or B2B contract
• Remote within CET Time zone. 
• Possibility to be part of a multicultural team and work on international projects.

If you are passionate about data, development & tech, we want to meet you !

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