Hybrid Solution Architect – Delivery Excellence Team

at SEB

• Job title: Solution Architect – Delivery Excellence Team
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: €3,700 - €5,600 per month
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Riga, Latvia

About the role

• Solution Architect responsible for defining software delivery standards and practices at SEB. Leading efforts to enhance secure and resilient digital solutions across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Define and continuously evolve organizational standards and guardrails for secure, resilient, and high-quality software delivery (design, coding, testing, CI/CD, and release management)
• Translate regulatory and risk requirements into scalable engineering principles, reusable patterns, and practical implementation guidance
• Drive adoption of DevSecOps, automation-first practices, and integrated security controls across delivery teams
• Establish and align non-functional requirements including security, resilience, performance, observability, and maintainability
• Promote sustainable software design principles such as modularity, separation of concerns, testability, and long-term maintainability across legacy and modern systems
• Guide tooling strategy related to version control, CI/CD, code quality, and security scanning
• Provide architectural advisory in complex cross-team initiatives and collaborate with the broader architect community to ensure alignment with SEB’s target architecture
• Contribute to continuous improvement of delivery predictability, quality, and compliance across the organization

Requirements

• Deep understanding of modern software delivery practices, including DevOps, secure-by-design, and automation strategies
• Strong architectural expertise across monolithic, modular, and distributed systems, including API-driven and integration-heavy environments
• Solid knowledge of CI/CD design and integration of quality and security controls into delivery pipelines
• Strong grasp of software design principles such as clean architecture, modularity, separation of concerns, and testability
• Strong stakeholder management, communication skills, and a pragmatic mindset
• Experience operating in regulated or risk-aware environments where compliance and engineering excellence must coexist
• Proven ability to influence engineering standards and ways of working across multiple teams
• Ability to balance organizational guardrails with team autonomy
• Fluency in English, as you will be working with colleagues across Baltic countries.

Benefits

• A strategic role with high organizational impact
• Opportunity to continuously shape and improve how software is delivered across SEB
• Cross-border collaboration with architects, engineers, and security specialists
• Hybrid working model
• Access to SEB staff banking benefits, health insurance, and additional employee benefits
• Extensive training programs and continuous learning opportunities