Systems Architect

Role Overview

• Anticipate technical and organisational challenges by guiding the architecture of digital products across value streams.
• Combine enterprise architecture thinking with hands-on leadership to coach software architects, enforce technical strategy, and ensure continuous improvement through agile delivery practices.
• Responsible for orchestrating and integrating solutions across the value stream.
• Make trade-offs, support architectural governance, and define technical strategy alongside Product, Delivery, and Business leaders.
• Mentor, upskill, and guide Software Architects, ensuring consistency, quality, and long-term maintainability in engineering practices.
• Define and evolve the architecture runway, aligning enterprise strategy with Agile execution.
• Establish and govern C4 models, ADRs, and technical roadmaps across multiple teams.
• Define scalable and maintainable technical solutions for digital products.
• Guide adoption of core engineering practices (e.g., CI/CD, observability, resilience, contract testing).
• Act as a trusted advisor on cloud-native architecture, event-driven systems, and platform decisions.
• Lead and coach Software Architects and Senior Engineers across teams and domains.
• Support hiring, development, calibration, and career progression of technical leaders.
• Foster an architecture community of practice and promote alignment through shared principles.
• Create technical engagement, cohesion, and autonomy across squads and value streams.
• Guide and support Product Management in defining and refining technical enablers and NFRs.
• Lead architectural rituals (PDCA, risk assessments, solution reviews).
• Ensure cross-team consistency, compliance, and reuse of architecture patterns.
• Anticipate and communicate tech debt, scalability constraints, and future capability needs.

Requirements

• Experience with system and solution architecture in scaled Agile environments (SAFe preferred).
• Proficiency with Java 17+, Spring Boot, and microservice-based architectures.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture principles, capability modelling, and value stream alignment.
• Cloud expertise in GCP (preferred) or equivalent (AWS, Azure), including Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong background in event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub) and distributed datastores (Spanner, BigTable).
• Clear communicator who bridges business strategy and technical delivery.
• Comfortable leading in ambiguity, with strong stakeholder management.
• Skilled in coaching and aligning senior engineers and technical leadership.
• Strategic mindset with hands-on delivery accountability.
• Experience with Lean Portfolio Management and architecture runway planning (Nice-to-have).
• Familiarity with platform enablement (observability stack, SLOs, service mesh) (Nice-to-have).
• Exposure to enterprise architecture tooling (e.g., Backstage, Compass) (Nice-to-have).

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform
• Java
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• RabbitMQ
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• SpringBoot

Benefits

• Health and dental insurance
• Meal and food allowance
• Childcare assistance
• Extended paternity leave
• Partnership with gyms and health and wellness professionals via Wellhub (Gympass) TotalPass;
• Profit Sharing and Results Participation (PLR);
• Life insurance
• Continuous learning platform (CI&T University);
• Discount club
• Free online platform dedicated to physical, mental, and overall well-being
• Pregnancy and responsible parenting course
• Partnerships with online learning platforms
• Language learning platform