Company Overview
team.blue is an ecosystem of successful brands working together across regions to provide customers with everything they need to succeed online. 60+ successful brands make up the group; with a team of 2700 experts serving its 3.3 million customers across Europe and beyond.
team.blue's brands are a mix of traditional hosting businesses, offering services from domain names, email, shared hosting, e-commerce and server hosting solutions and specialist SaaS providers offering adjacent products such as compliance, marketing tools and team collaboration products. This broad product offering makes it a one-stop partner for online businesses and entrepreneurs across Europe.
Position Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineering Architect to join our Software Architecture team. The Software Engineering Architect will be assigned a Product Unit where together with the teams and technical leaders will ensure scalable, efficient, and high-performance solutions are developed, mentor and be a technical liaison.
Ideal candidates will have a strong technical background, proven experience, and excellent communication skills.
Key Responsibilities:
* Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and frameworks.
* Partner with product, engineering, DevOps, and security leaders to design and evolve system architectures that support current and future business goals
* Conduct architectural reviews, evaluate trade-offs, and ensure best practices in software design, performance, security, and reliability
* Ensure adherence to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and implement best practices for quality assurance and security.
* Utilize tools and methodologies to measure and maintain high levels of software security and quality.
* Establish and maintain robust architecture documentation practices, ensuring clarity, traceability, and long-term maintainability of system designs.
* Provide technical and architectural leadership to a designated product unit, wor-king in tandem with the Director of Software Engineering.
* Collaborate with engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to ensure scala-ble, maintainable, and high-quality software solutions.
* Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles, long-term technology vi-sion, and company-wide standards.
* Identify and drive opportunities for technical synergies, reuse, and innovation across teams and domains.
* Support the Principal Software Engineering Architect in defining architecture road-maps, evaluating new technologies, and shaping architectural governance.
* Mentor and guide development teams on architectural best practices, software design principles, and system optimization.
* Contribute to the creation and refinement of technical documentation, design blueprints, and architectural patterns.
* Participate in strategic planning, contributing to the long-term scalability and performance of applications and services.
Qualifications:
* 10+ years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years in an architectural role
* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
* Strong expertise in designing scalable and secure software architectures.
* Deep understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and API design.
* Proficiency in multiple programming languages (e.g., PHP, Java, Python, C#, JavaScript).
* Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
* Strong problem-solving skills with a strategic and analytical mindset.
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams.
* Comprehensive understanding of SDLC, quality assurance practices, and security measures.
* Demonstrated experience in authoring and maintaining architecture documentation, blueprints, and standards.
* Experience with tools for automated testing, security scanning, and performance monitoring.
* Strong analytical skills and a strategic mindset
* Excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken
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