Platform Architect

We fuse together exceptional talent who deliver outstanding software solutions. Our approach has helped us grow 60% in 2021 94% in 2022 while in 2023 we joined forces with Insight a Fortune 500 company and a leading solutions and systems integrator. With exciting growth plans and cutting-edge projects there has never been a better time to join our incredible team.

WE ARE AMDARIS

We fuse together exceptional talent who deliver outstanding software solutions. Our approach has helped us grow 60% in 2021 94% in 2022 while in 2023 we joined forces with Insight a Fortune 500 company and a leading solutions and systems integrator. With exciting growth plans and cutting-edge projects there has never been a better time to join our incredible team.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Platform Architect to shape govern and continuously evolve the platform that underpins all current and future products. This is a senior hands-on architecture role focused on platform coherence composability and long-term sustainability - not individual application design.

The Platform Architect is accountable for the clarity and quality of architectural decisions and for how architecture shows up in day-to-day delivery. This is not an ivory-tower role. Success is measured by clear decisions lightweight governance and architecture that teams actively use to move faster - rather than by documents alone.

• Main Duties and Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Strategy

• Define own and continuously evolve the target platform architecture for SmartSea Vision aligned with business strategy product roadmaps and long-term scalability goals.
• Establish and maintain clear architecture principles standards and guardrails across cloud integration data security and application layers.
• Ensure the platform remains composable enabling autonomous product teams to build deploy and evolve services without tight coupling.
• Maintain and publish platform reference architectures that reflect real-world usage and guide day-to-day design decisions.

Architectural Decision-Making & Learning

• Design and own a lightweight Architectural Decision Record (ADR) approach embedded into existing delivery tools and workflows.
• Ensure architectural decisions are explicit documented and can be revisited in time.
• Facilitate architectural trade-off discussions helping teams converge on pragmatic decisions.
• Establish feedback loops to assess the impact of architectural decisions and evolve principles and standards based on learning.
• Foster a culture where architecture is treated as a shared learning system not a compliance exercise.

Cloud Integration & Data Foundations

• Design and govern cloud-native architectures leveraging Azure (or equivalent) containerisation and event-driven patterns.
• Define integration standards and patterns (APIs events messaging) to enable interoperability between SmartSea products third-party systems and legacy maritime platforms.
• Collaborate with data and product stakeholders to establish consistent data models data ownership and data flow principles across the platform.
• Ensure platform designs support scalability resilience observability and operational excellence.

Architecture Governance & Enablement

• Act as the architectural authority for the platform ensuring alignment with agreed principles while avoiding unnecessary delivery friction.
• Embed architecture touchpoints into product discovery initiative shaping planning and cross-team initiatives.
• Establish and run a regular architecture review cadence focused on decision-making and learning not sign-off.
• Continuously evolve governance mechanisms to remain lightweight proportionate to risk and scalable across teams.
• Actively identify and remove architectural processes that slow teams down without improving outcomes.

Technology Evolution & Risk Management

• Own the technology evolution roadmap for the platform identifying modernization opportunities technical debt and emerging technologies.
• Proactively assess and mitigate architectural risks related to security compliance scalability resilience and operational complexity.
• Ensure platform architecture supports high availability disaster recovery and regulatory requirements relevant to a SaaS maritime platform.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Work closely with Product Management Engineering Security DevOps and Delivery leadership to ensure architectural decisions are understood actionable and aligned.
• Mentor senior engineers and architects building a strong architectural community and shared ownership mindset.
• Influence without authority helping teams align around common architectural intent.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior stakeholders translating complex architectural topics into clear business implications.

Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering Information Systems or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in software engineering and architecture roles with demonstrated ownership of platform-level or enterprise-scale architectures.
• Proven experience designing and governing cloud-native distributed systems in complex regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of modern architectural patterns: microservices event-driven architectures APIs domain-driven design and platform engineering.
• Deep experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD ecosystems.
• Solid understanding of identity access management security-by-design and compliance considerations in SaaS platforms.
• Strong understanding of Agile and product-centric delivery models in multi-team environments.
• Proven ability to design architecture that enables team autonomy while maintaining overall system coherence.
• Pragmatic decision-maker comfortable making trade-offs between ideal architecture and delivery constraints.
• Skilled facilitator of technical discussions and decision-making across diverse stakeholders.

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