Platform Architect

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.&nbsp;</p></div><p><strong>Job Description</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>Main Duties and Responsibilities</strong></p> <p>Platform Architecture &amp; Strategy</p> <ul> <li>Define, own, and continuously evolve the target platform architecture for company's Vision, aligned with business strategy, product roadmaps, and long-term scalability goals.</li> <li>Establish and maintain clear architecture principles, standards, and guardrails across cloud, integration, data, security, and application layers.</li> <li>Ensure the platform remains composable, enabling autonomous product teams to build, deploy, and evolve services without tight coupling.</li> <li>Maintain and publish platform reference architectures that reflect real-world usage and guide day-to-day design decisions.</li> </ul> <p>Architectural Decision-Making &amp; Learning</p> <ul> <li>Design and own a lightweight Architectural Decision Record (ADR) approach, embedded into existing delivery tools and workflows.</li> <li>Ensure architectural decisions are explicit, documented, and can be revisited in time.</li> <li>Facilitate architectural trade-off discussions, helping teams converge on pragmatic decisions.</li> <li>Establish feedback loops to assess the impact of architectural decisions and evolve principles and standards based on learning.</li> <li>Foster a culture where architecture is treated as a shared learning system, not a compliance exercise.</li> </ul> <p>Cloud, Integration &amp; Data Foundations</p> <ul> <li>Design and govern cloud-native architectures leveraging Azure (or equivalent), containerisation, and event-driven patterns.</li> <li>Define integration standards and patterns (APIs, events, messaging) to enable interoperability between company's products, third-party systems, and legacy maritime platforms.</li> <li>Collaborate with data and product stakeholders to establish consistent data models, data ownership, and data flow principles across the platform.</li> <li>Ensure platform designs support scalability, resilience, observability, and operational excellence.</li> </ul> <p>Architecture Governance &amp; Enablement</p> <ul> <li>Act as the architectural authority for the platform, ensuring alignment with agreed principles while avoiding unnecessary delivery friction.</li> <li>Embed architecture touchpoints into product discovery, initiative shaping, planning, and cross-team initiatives.</li> <li>Establish and run a regular architecture review cadence focused on decision-making and learning, not sign-off.</li> <li>Continuously evolve governance mechanisms to remain lightweight, proportionate to risk, and scalable across teams.</li> <li>Actively identify and remove architectural processes that slow teams down without improving outcomes.</li> </ul> <p>Technology Evolution &amp; Risk Management</p> <ul> <li>Own the technology evolution roadmap for the platform, identifying modernization opportunities, technical debt, and emerging technologies.</li> <li>Proactively assess and mitigate architectural risks related to security, compliance, scalability, resilience, and operational complexity.</li> <li>Ensure platform architecture supports high availability, disaster recovery, and regulatory requirements relevant to a SaaS maritime platform.</li> </ul> <p>Collaboration &amp; Leadership</p> <ul> <li>Work closely with Product Management, Engineering, Security, DevOps, and Delivery leadership to ensure architectural decisions are understood, actionable, and aligned.</li> <li>Mentor senior engineers and architects, building a strong architectural community and shared ownership mindset.</li> <li>Influence without authority, helping teams align around common architectural intent.</li> <li>Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior stakeholders, translating complex architectural topics into clear business implications.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Skills and Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.</li> <li>5+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture roles, with demonstrated ownership of platform-level or enterprise-scale architectures.</li> <li>Proven experience designing and governing cloud-native, distributed systems in complex, regulated environments.</li> <li>Strong understanding of modern architectural patterns: microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, domain-driven design, and platform engineering.</li> <li>Deep experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred), container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD ecosystems.</li> <li>Solid understanding of identity, access management, security-by-design, and compliance considerations in SaaS platforms.</li> <li>Strong understanding of Agile and product-centric delivery models in multi-team environments.</li> <li>Proven ability to design architecture that enables team autonomy while maintaining overall system coherence.</li> <li>Pragmatic decision-maker, comfortable making trade-offs between ideal architecture and delivery constraints.</li> <li>Skilled facilitator of technical discussions and decision-making across diverse stakeholders.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p>To see more roles, <a href="https://amdaris.com/jobs" target="_blank">click here</a>.</p></div>