Systems Architect

Work model:Hybrid (2 days in the office per week)
Job Type:
Full Time
Job Location: Málaga or Madrid

We are building a multidisciplinary Architecture team and looking for the best talents to help us defining the future architecture model to support
businesses ambitions.

• Be part of the Architecture Centre of Excellence. Actively contribute and support the development and growth of the overall architectural capability.
• Define and maintain an overarching technical strategy for the IT group in collaboration with the Architecture team and leadership.
• Ensure that architecture definition and subsequent technical implementations are in accordance with best practice, able to meet the current and
  future business needs.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, automation and process improvement through technology.
• Establish excellent relationships with the organisation’s Technology functions, business stakeholders and PMO.
• Design solutions that support organisational strategic objectives, while considering usability, operational efficiency and supportability.
• Support new technology adoption, ensuring consistency with business and technology strategy.
• Collaborate closely with partner vendor groups, such as platform software vendors, to ensure that technical environments are suitable for current
  and future purpose.
• Ensure that all systems architecture is in accordance with Information Security requirements.
• Define and maintain an accurate representation of current technology and new technology integration state.
• Able to fully and accurately assess the risk to business of in place solutions and future technology implementation proposals.
• Support cost/benefit analysis for all solution proposals.
• Lead external suppliers to identify and evaluate technology improvements to support business initiatives and drive increased efficiency.
• Act as subject matter expert on IT technology solutions, and available solutions in the market place to meet business needs.
• Resolve design technical problems promptly and thoroughly when they arise in an inclusive manner.
• Participate in roadmap alignment with technology teams.
• Produce technical design documentation for Architecture and technology teams. Encourage and support knowledge sharing across all teams.
• Collaborate with Technology functions on the design and implementation of the required solutions.

• Experience with SaaS, PaaS, on-prem and cloud solutions.
• Experience implementing end-to-end delivery life cycles.
• Experience designing and implementing Infrastructure solutions across Linux and Windows like
  • Virtualization Systems
  • Openstack
  • SDS Solutions like CEPH
  • Linux-based container technologies
  • Kubernetes, CNI and key CNCF products
  • Web stacks (DNS, CDN, PKI, Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies, etc.)
  • IaC, Configuration management and CI/CD (Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD)
  • Identity Access Management (IAM/IdM/IdP/PAM)
  • Network stacks and protocols (SDN, SSH, HTTP/S, …)
  • Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Collectd, ELK, …)
• Strong focus on automation.
• Experience in programming/scripting languages like Go/Python, Bash, and Power Shell.
• Experience in leading the design of significantly sized or complex systems.
• Forward-thinker: keep up to date with emerging technologies which could support the organization in the future.
• Continuously challenging the status quo.
• Feeling comfortable working with different teams, functions and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Team player.
• Collaborative approach to build the best of breed solutions in collaboration with the rest of the Architecture teams and IT Operations.

The above list of duties is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake tasks that are reasonably expected within the scope and grading of the post