IT architect

About the Position

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IT Architect

Roma, Italia

About blendX

blendX is an innovative startup founded in 2020 with a strong ambition: to become a leader in the Innovation Management Platform market. BlendX has brought to market a proprietary B2B solution to manage all innovation processes on a single platform, with a suite of over 20 application modules.

Our team is young and dynamic, with experience in B2B digital products and consulting in the field of Open Innovation.

We are growing rapidly by enhancing our product and acquiring major corporate clients, public administration, accelerators, and incubators.

About the Role

We are a growing company consolidating its technological infrastructure and are looking for an IT architect with 4-5 years of experience who will play a key role in defining, implementing, and optimizing the company's and group's IT architecture. We are looking for someone capable of combining technical expertise, strategic vision, and operational skills, able to design scalable, secure, and effective solutions, comfortable in agile and continuously evolving contexts, who enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams, sharing knowledge and best practices. The role will be part of the product technical team.

Responsibilities

• Participate actively in defining and evolving the company's IT architecture, ensuring that technological choices are consistent with growth and scalability objectives.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to analyze requirements, design integrated solutions, and develop prototypes and proofs-of-concept.
• Be responsible for selecting the most suitable technologies, implementing cloud and on-premise infrastructures, and automating processes, contributing to the construction of a secure, efficient, and innovative IT ecosystem.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar.
• 4-5 years of experience in similar roles.
• Solid knowledge of cloud and on-premise architectures, main integration technologies, and modern software development paradigms.
• Good knowledge of containerization systems and automation and CI/CD tools.
• Good knowledge of API design, OAuth2, and JWT.
• Good knowledge of Cloud, DevOps, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Good knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Good knowledge of cybersecurity principles and practices with the ability to design secure solutions compliant with industry standards.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, critical and analytical thinking.
• Aptitude for innovation and a propensity to explore new solutions.
• Ability to work in dynamic contexts, adapting quickly to new technologies, needs, and priorities.
• Propensity to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Good knowledge of English (at least B2).

We Offer

• Permanent contract with a gross annual salary between 38,000-40,000 EUR based on experience and skills.
• Hybrid work mode with complete flexibility in relation to agreed objectives and team dynamics.
• Phluid, our office in Rome. More than an office, it is a place designed to bring people together, share ideas, and be inspired, as well as to facilitate the completion of work activities.
• A heterogeneous and rapidly growing team composed of people who have made innovation their mission.
• A culture of failure and continuous improvement: we make mistakes together and understand together what went wrong to do better next time.
• A path of growth, training, and development in a dynamic and stimulating profession.
• Autonomy: no one will tell you how to organize your activities as long as you contribute to achieving the objective we have shared with you.
• Access to an unlimited system of vacations and permissions.

At blendX, we promote inclusivity and diversity in everyone's unique being; therefore, this announcement is addressed to people of any nationality, ethnicity, religious belief, sexual orientation or gender expression, sex, age, and with disabilities.

We care about your privacy as much as we care about the privacy of our employees; for this reason, your data will always be treated in compliance with EU Regulation 2016/679 and Legislative Decree 101/2028, at every stage of the selection process.

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