Senior Software Architect designing software architecture for military radio systems at Thales. Leading technical implementations with a focus on embedded real - time software and communication projects.
About the role
- Senior Reliability, Scalability & Performance Architect defining NFRs for Swiss Re’s cloud-native solutions. Collaborating with teams to ensure performance, resilience, and security.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the product-wide NFR framework, including principles, metrics, and design patterns for delivery teams
- Collaborate with solution architects, product owners, and engineering leads to capture, validate, and implement NFRs throughout the SDLC
- Conduct architecture and performance reviews to validate compliance with scalability, reliability, and resilience objectives
- Develop and maintain reference architectures, reusable blueprints, and NFR patterns that promote consistency across solutions
- Partner with security, infrastructure, and SRE teams to align architecture with enterprise policies and operational best practices
- Champion the integration of automated performance, resilience, and security testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Lead framework and library lifecycle management, including assessing and planning upgrades, migrations, and deprecations for technologies such as Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Java SDKs, and related open-source components
- Coordinating security patching and remediation to address vulnerabilities (CVEs) in underlying frameworks and dependencies
- Collaborating with platform teams to ensure compatibility with evolving Azure, containerization, and DevOps toolchains
- Support technology evaluations and architecture decisions to optimize for performance, cost, and operational efficiency
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering teams on NFR and architecture best practices
- Continuously track and evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and tools related to SRE, observability, and cloud-native engineering
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in enterprise software engineering (preferably Java/J2EE ecosystem)
- 5+ years in architecture or technical leadership roles
- Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful microservices, and related frameworks
- Proven experience with Azure Cloud, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD automation
- Proficiency with observability and performance tooling (Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk)
- Experience managing framework and library upgrades, dependency security remediation, and platform migrations
- Working knowledge of authentication/authorization (Okta, Azure AD, OAuth2/OpenID Connect)
- Strong understanding of DevSecOps and secure SDLC principles
- Familiarity with architecture modeling tools such as Enterprise Architect or Visio
Benefits
- Attractive performance-based variable compensation component
- Variety of global and location specific benefits
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