System Architect

Your Responsibilities:

Architecture & Technology Roadmap

• Define and manage the technology roadmap across Java, Angular, cloud platforms and engineering tooling.
• Ensure architectural consistency and alignment across multiple development squads.
• Define architectural principles, integration guidelines and engineering best practices.
• Guide modernization and technology-adoption initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership across Java/software engineering and related domains such as Cloud, Security or AI.

Hands-on Support to Engineering Teams:

• Support squads with complex architectural and technical challenges.
• Participate in sprints when required to assist with refactoring, rework or complex implementations.
• Define and promote secure, scalable and maintainable engineering practices.
• Coach teams on architectural and technical decisions.

DevOps, Tooling & Engineering Excellence:

• Drive consistency and continuous improvement across:
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • GitHub workflows and versioning
  • Monitoring and observability
  • OpenShift and Azure
  • Test automation
  • Release, change, incident and problem management
• Collaborate closely with DevOps, Cloud, Security and Observability teams.
• Promote automation and standardization across engineering teams.

Innovation & Technology Watch:

• Monitor emerging technologies and assess their potential value.
• Drive PoCs, experiments and pilot initiatives.
• Explore developments in areas such as Agentic AI, cloud-native technologies and next-generation security.
• Encourage experimentation, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

What You Bring:

• Senior-level experience in Java software engineering and system/application architecture.
• Strong knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, microservices, APIs and distributed systems.
• Good understanding of software architecture, integration and design patterns.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitHub, container platforms, cloud environments and observability.
• Ability to work across multiple engineering squads and influence technical direction.
• Comfortable combining high-level architecture with hands-on technical involvement.
• Strong communication, coaching and stakeholder-management skills.
• An autonomous, pragmatic and forward-looking mindset.

Technical Environment:

Experience across several of the following technologies is relevant. Candidates are not expected to be experts in every technology listed.

Backend & Architecture

• Java 8-21
• Spring Boot / Spring Cloud
• REST APIs, JSON and SOAP Web Services
• Microservices and distributed systems
• Design patterns
• JDBC, Hibernate / JPA

Frontend

• Angular
• Node.js
• JavaScript
• XHTML / CSS
• Mockito / WireMock
• Struts, JSF / JSP are considered a plus

Databases & Modelling

• Oracle, including ExaCC
• PostgreSQL
• SQL / PL/SQL
• UML
• DDL / DML

DevOps & Engineering Tooling

• GitHub
• Maven
• Jenkins
• IntelliJ
• Swagger / OpenAPI
• Postman / SOAP-UI
• JUnit
• Sonar
• Dynatrace

Platforms & Cloud

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• Azure
• Tomcat / WebSphere / JBoss

AI & Emerging Technology

• Agentic AI
• Claude / Anthropic ecosystem
• OpenAI Codex

Ways of Working

• Scrum
• XP
• Pair programming
• CI/CD
• Test automation
• Secure-by-design development

Nice to Have

• Experience within the telecommunications industry.
• Knowledge of TM Forum (TMF) standards.
• Exposure to emerging security standards such as NIS2 and post-quantum cryptography (PQC).