Senior Technical Arhitect

Senior Technical Architect

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Architect to join our client's fast-growing team, whose mission is to drive technical excellence by advising projects, defining standards, and ensuring architectural consistency.

Role Summary:

As a Technical Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of our client's IT landscape. You will be responsible for defining, maintaining and enforcing technical and security standards across the organization and advising IT projects throughout their remediation.

You will act as a gatekeeper to ensure architectural consistency, avoid technology sprawl, and promote simplicity, stability, manageability, cost-efficiency, and security.

Your first assignment will be to evaluate and strategize the transition of our IT estate from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to Platform as a Service (PaaS) on Azure Cloud, covering various PaaS technologies including databases, application hosting and message handling.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

As a member of the Technical Architecture team your responsibilities are:

Technical Standards & Governance

• Define, document, and maintain IT technical standards, reference architectures, and design patterns;
• Participate in architecture review boards and contribute to governance processes.

IT Project Advisory

• Act as a trusted advisor to IT project teams from initiation through delivery. Provide guidance on technology choices, integration patterns, and infrastructure design;
• Review and validate technical architecture, ensuring alignment with company standards and cloud best practices;
• Identify and mitigate technical risks early in the project lifecycle;
• Provide hands-on support in case of critical troubleshooting.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, particularly in cloud computing;
• Evaluate new tools and platforms for potential adoption in our client's Technology Portfolio. Help include these technologies in CI/CD pipelines;
• Contribute to the evolution of the company's cloud strategy and digital transformation roadmap;

Required experience & competencies

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in IT architecture, with a strong focus on cloud-based solutions;
• Fluent in English; basics in French is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the reinsurance, insurance or other financial industry is a plus.

Technical Skills

• Strong experience in Public Cloud platforms, especially Azure. Alicloud is a plus;
• Strong experience in architectural principles, frameworks, and best practices.
• Strong experience in networks (DNS, Routing), Storage (performance) and Identity Management
• Experience on CI/CD platforms (Ansible, Terraform)
• Experience in software engineering in any modern language (Python, Java, ...)
• Experience in Agile Methods

Soft Skills

• Collaborate with IT production, cybersecurity, network, and application teams to ensure cohesive and secure controls;
• Pronounced analytical and conceptual capabilities;
• Create and deliver documentation and presentations to support decision-making and knowledge sharing;
• Willingness to adapt and learn in a dynamic technology environment;
• Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences. Ability to present complex situations in a clear way;
• Capacity to navigate in an international environment.

Required Education

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

Why apply?

• Exposure to a large, international investment platform;
• Role at the core of investment operations and controls;
• Stable environment with strong governance and best-practice processes;
• Opportunity to work closely with multiple group-level stakeholders.

Benefits & What We Offer:

• Join a people-centered company culture where you can grow, thrive, and innovate;
• Be part of shaping the Reinsurer of Tomorrow within an environment that values learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement;
• Opportunity to be part of a highly successful global organization with strong industry presence;

• Make a real impact through your work by contributing to key financial operations;
• Comprehensive health and life insurance to support your wellbeing;
• Meal tickets valued at 45 RON / working day;
• Attractive referral bonuses plus seasonal vouchers: 350 RON for Christmas and 300 RON for Easter.