Solution Architecture Lead

Excelia is a multinational Consulting, Technology and Professional Services company with over 25 years of experience. We provide services across more than 50 countries in Europe, Latin America and the United States, supported by our 10 offices worldwide.

Do you have experience as a Solutions Architect and are you looking for a new challenge? Then this opportunity might be for you!

🔹 Position: Solution Architecture Lead

📍 Location: Lisbon - Venda do Pinheiro - 1x a week in the office

Main responsibilities:

- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of Solution Architects;

- Own the Solution Architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap across multiple engineering domains in close alignment with Enterprise Architecture;

- Drive end-to-end architectural alignment across business capabilities, ensuring that solutions work seamlessly across different domains;

- Actively manage, reduce, and control technical debt to maintain long-term agility and system health;

- Proactively evolve architecture and platforms to enable the rapid and reliable delivery of future business features;

- Drive measurable improvements in system availability and resilience by defining and enforcing architectural standards for high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and risk management (including NIS2);

- Establish measurable reliability practices, including resilience reviews, maturity assessments, and failure testing;

- Provide hands-on guidance to product teams and engineers designing and building scalable, secure, cloud-native, and fault-tolerant distributed systems;

- Ensure strategic and technical alignment between Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Product while promoting modern architectural patterns and governance (e.g., event-driven systems, domain-driven design, APIfirst).

Mandatory requirements:

- Degree in computer science or equivalent professional background;

- Several years of professional experience in Software or Solution Architecture;

- Leadership experience (e.g., team lead, chapter lead, technical lead, architecture manager);

- Strong hands-on background in software engineering with modern programming languages, cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and distributed systems;

- Understanding of architecture concepts for high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity;

- Ability to balance speed of delivery with system robustness while managing technical debt to align long-term architectural health with short-term business goals;

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills;

- Strategic mindset combined with practical execution capability;

- Excellent English skills (written and spoken);

- Willingness to travel occasionally within Europe.

If you believe your profile could be a good fit, don't hesitate to apply for this opportunity! 😉