Software Engineering Architect

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team.blue is a leading digital enabler for companies and entrepreneurs. It serves over 3.3 million customers in Europe and has more than 3,000 experts to support them. Its goal is to shape technology and to empower businesses with innovative digital services.

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Company Overview

team.blue is an ecosystem of successful brands working together across regions to provide customers with everything they need to succeed online. 60+ successful brands make up the group; with a team of 2700 experts serving its 3.3 million customers across Europe and beyond.

team.blue's brands are a mix of traditional hosting businesses, offering services from domain names, email, shared hosting, e-commerce and server hosting solutions and specialist SaaS providers offering adjacent products such as compliance, marketing tools and team collaboration products. This broad product offering makes it a one-stop partner for online businesses and entrepreneurs across Europe.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineering Architect to join our Software Architecture team. The Software Engineering Architect will be assigned a Product Unit where together with the teams and technical leaders will ensure scalable, efficient, and high-performance solutions are developed, mentor and be a technical liaison.

Ideal candidates will have a strong technical background, proven experience, and excellent communication skills.

Key Responsibilities :

• Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and frameworks.
• Partner with product, engineering, DevOps, and security leaders to design and evolve system architectures that support current and future business goals
• Conduct architectural reviews, evaluate trade-offs, and ensure best practices in software design, performance, security, and reliability
• Ensure adherence to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and implement best practices for quality assurance and security.
• Utilize tools and methodologies to measure and maintain high levels of software security and quality.
• Establish and maintain robust architecture documentation practices, ensuring clarity, traceability, and long-term maintainability of system designs.
• Provide technical and architectural leadership to a designated product unit, wor-king in tandem with the Director of Software Engineering.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders and cross-functional teams to ensure scala-ble, maintainable, and high-quality software solutions.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles, long-term technology vi-sion, and company-wide standards.
• Identify and drive opportunities for technical synergies, reuse, and innovation across teams and domains.
• Support the Principal Software Engineering Architect in defining architecture road-maps, evaluating new technologies, and shaping architectural governance.
• Mentor and guide development teams on architectural best practices, software design principles, and system optimization.
• Contribute to the creation and refinement of technical documentation, design blueprints, and architectural patterns.
• Participate in strategic planning, contributing to the long-term scalability and performance of applications and services.

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