Solutions architect System designer (EST timezone)

Would you like to join the leading international intergovernmental organization

Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATOs leading agent for change: driving facilitating and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance.

We are looking for a passionate Solutions Architect who will provide architectural leadership to support ACTs modernization and digital transformation priorities. You will ensure that innovative software and hardware architectures are designed integrated and maintained to meet mission requirements with scalability resilience and long-term sustainability. The role involves mentoring development teams guiding adoption of emerging technologies and ensuring architectural decisions balance immediate operational needs with strategic sustainability. Solutions Architects will also ensure identity and access management patterns architectural modeling standards and best practices are applied consistently across projects enabling our client to deliver secure interoperable and future-ready systems.

Responsibilities:

• Provide architectural leadership for innovative digital products developed in national defense institutions ensuring solutions support mission requirements.
• Oversee the design and integration of modern software and hardware architectures ensuring scalability resilience and long-term sustainability.
• Provide architectural mentorship to development teams ensuring consistent application of design principles and practices across projects.
• Collaborate with developers engineers and stakeholders to identify optimal technology approaches that enable Agile and DevSecOps practices.
• Develop and maintain architectural documentation including risk assessments trade-off analyses and implementation strategies.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and guide their adoption where appropriate to improve agility resilience and mission relevance.
• Balance technical debt immediate mission requirements and long-term sustainability in architectural decision-making.
• Advise on identity and access management (IAM) design patterns to support secure and federated user access across systems.
• Promote adoption of architectural modeling standards (UML ArchiMate BPMN) and tools (Enterprise Architect Archi ARIS XMLSpy etc.).
• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders to enable informed decision-making.

We are happy to hear from you if you have:

• Minimum 4 years of experience in software and/or hardware architecture including design patterns and paradigm shifts.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and providing mentorship in applying architectural principles.
• Experience evaluating and integrating emerging technologies into operational systems.
• Experience in modern Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution patterns.
• Experience working in Agile DevSecOps teams with CI/CD practices and relevant certifications.
• Experience developing documentation on technology solutions including risk assessment trade-offs and implementation strategies.
• Familiarity with architectural modeling standards (UML ArchiMate BPMN) and tools (Enterprise Architect Archi ARIS XMLSpy etc.).
• Proven ability to communicate complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Willingness to work in EST time zone

If youve read the description and feel this role is a great match wed love to hear from you! Click Apply for this job to be directed to a brief questionnaire. It should only take a few moments to complete and well be in touch promptly if your experience aligns with our needs.