We are seeking an experienced Platform Architect to shape, govern, and continuously evolve the platform that underpins all current and future products. The ideal candidate will have experience designing and governing cloud-native, distributed systems in complex, regulated environments and a strong understanding of modern architectural patterns.
Requirements
- Define, own, and continuously evolve the target platform architecture for company's 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.
- Design and own a lightweight Architectural Decision Record (ADR) approach, embedded into existing delivery tools and workflows.
- 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.
- 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 company's 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits
- Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
