Software Technical Architect

CBTW is a global independent tech consultancy group. With a team of more than 2,700 talented tech specialists on the ground in over 35 cities across Europe, the USA, Asia, Australia and Africa, we serve clients of all sizes. We believe collaboration betters our world. Our unique open ecosystem model allows us to deliver end-to-end tech solutions.

• →Architect and evolve a scalable, modular, and extensible SaaS core platform used by global feature teams.
• →Define and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and best practices to ensure consistency and maintainability across all platform components.
• →Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, DevOps, QA, and regional feature teams) to align on platform capabilities, shared services, and integration strategies.
• →Identify and eliminate duplication of work across teams by designing reusable services, shared libraries, and standard APIs.
• →Own the technical roadmap for the core platform in alignment with product vision and long-term scalability goals.
• →Conduct architecture reviews, technical audits, and evaluate new tools/technologies to improve system performance and development efficiency.
• →Mentor and guide engineers in the team, encouraging sound engineering decisions and promoting a strong technical culture.
• →Ensure the platform is secure, resilient, and performs at scale, considering multi-region requirements.
• →Participate in incident reviews and root cause analysis for major issues that impact the platform or regional feature teams.

• Proven experience (15+ years) in software development, with at least 3+ years in a software architect or senior technical leadership role including hands-on ownership designing complex, core platform systems 
• Strong experiences of microservices, event-driven design, event sourcing and asynchronous communication patterns

• Strong proficiency in applying CQRS to complex domains, including event-driven modeling, read model optimization, and ensuring data consistency through suitable convergence and conflict resolution mechanisms.

• Hands-on experience with messaging platforms such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, Mass Transit or similar
• Strong knowledge of distributed system design: data consistency, eventual consistency, failover, resiliency patterns, etc
• Hands-on experience designing scalable platforms with clear boundaries and modular components that support downstream development teams, with strong emphasis on reliability, scalability, and observability
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

• Engineering team members
• Product management team

• Raising the bar of what-good-looks-like within the Company Engineering
• Design, development, and delivery of quality, maintainable backend, web applications
• Creation of APIs which will be consumed both internally and externally
• Involvement in data-driven product experimentation
• Writing clean, scalable, testable code to support and enable the growth of the company
• Participation in discussions of system architecture
• Coaching and mentoring of more junior team members