Solution Architecture Lead - (Remote - 1x Month - Lisbon) M/F

About the Position

Solution Architecture Lead - (Remote - 1x Month - Lisbon) M/F

Sysmatch is a Portuguese company that has been on the IT market for almost 20 years. Our core business is IT Outsourcing and Software Development for the finance sector. We invest a lot of effort on our client relationships and always deliver the best candidate or product available for their need and that is the main reason behind our success! At the moment we are looking for the following candidate: Solution Architecture Lead - (Remote - 1x Month - Lisbon)

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of Solution Architects;
• Own the Solution Architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap across multiple engineering domains in close alignment with Enterprise Architecture;
• Drive end-to-end architectural alignment across business capabilities, ensuring that solutions work seamlessly across different domains;
• Actively manage, reduce, and control technical debt to maintain long-term agility and system health;
• Proactively evolve architecture and platforms to enable the rapid and reliable delivery of future business features;
• Drive measurable improvements in system availability and resilience by defining and enforcing architectural standards for high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and risk management (including NIS2);
• Establish measurable reliability practices, including resilience reviews, maturity assessments, and failure testing;
• Provide hands-on guidance to product teams and engineers designing and building scalable, secure, cloud-native, and fault-tolerant distributed systems;
• Ensure strategic and technical alignment between Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Product while promoting modern architectural patterns and governance (e.g., event-driven systems, domain-driven design, API first).

Requirements

• Degree in computer science or equivalent professional background;
• Several years of professional experience in Software or Solution Architecture;
• Leadership experience (e.g., team lead, chapter lead, technical lead, architecture manager);
• Strong hands-on background in software engineering with modern programming languages, cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) and distributed systems;
• Understanding of architecture concepts for high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity;
• Ability to balance speed of delivery with system robustness while managing technical debt to align long-term architectural health with short-term business goals;
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills;
• Strategic mindset combined with practical execution capability;
• Excellent English skills (written and spoken);
• Willingness to travel occasionally within Europe.

Salary

€40k - €50k Gross/Annual + Other Components/Benefits.

We Offer

• Salary classification according to the experience shown;
• Good working environment with young and dynamic teams;
• Integration into exciting and technologically innovative projects;
• Training plan and opportunities.

About the Company

At Sysmatch, we invest in people as a way to achieve our clients' goals, which also become our goals when they trust their technological future to our teams. Our investment in technological specialisation has over 20 years of existence on the national and international scene, with information technology solutions developed for each client, for each industry. We live in different times and it is unquestionable how indispensable technology has become in our daily lives. We are looking for experts to join our teams in each of the technology fields, who want to make a difference and build a solid career in IT.

To respond to this opportunity, please send us your CV, indicating the reference RS/SAL/G to the following email address [email protected]