Software Architecture Coordinator

Competitive salary with attractive performance-based bonuses.

26 working days of vacation and 2 personal days.

Flexible compensation plan: Health insurance, childcare, transport card, and training.

Employee discounts at various brands.

Wellness plan: Nutrition programs, webinars to promote a healthy lifestyle, virtual workshops on relaxation techniques, yoga, and smoking cessation.

Join a leading company with strong backing and prestige in the sector.

Real opportunities for professional growth: in our expansion, the next supervisors will come from this team.

Autonomous role backed by Salesforce as a work tool.

Structured onboarding: 2 weeks of support with your Coordinator + ongoing training with senior managers.

Functional autonomy from day one, with structured support.

Excellent professional environment and a culture focused on talent development.

What's your mission?

As a member of the Software Architecture team, the objective will be to lead and govern the Software Architecture domain of Grupo Santalucía, defining the strategy and evolution of the corporate software architecture, establishing the standards, reference models, and technological assets necessary to ensure alignment with the company's technology strategy.

Likewise, the objective will be to ensure the proper delivery of services within the domain by managing teams, activities, capabilities, and budget, participating in the execution of corporate projects and promoting coordination with the various business and technology areas to facilitate the delivery of efficient, sustainable solutions aligned with the organization's transformation goals.

Software Architecture domain coordination: You will be responsible for the domain, reporting to the Technological Architecture manager. In charge of people management and leadership and team capacity, including the external provider teams that make up the domain across the various services provided.

Will collaborate on the management and preparation of budgets for the Software Architecture domain, monitoring the invoicing process and forecasting for the budget lines managed by the domain itself, as well as directly participating in the estimation process for the annual project portfolio.

Interlocution with other areas and departments: You will be the main interlocutor with the rest of the areas and departments that interact with the domain, ensuring coordination with the rest of the Technological Architecture subdomains, as well as domains within the Enterprise Architecture department.

Technological evolution. Management and governance of the corporate software architecture evolution roadmap for the Santalucía Group, through the design and creation of PoCs based on the latest technological trends, as well as the management of projects in which the Software Architecture domain acts in the role of Project Manager/IT Lead.

Must ensure proper alignment with the rest of the Technology Architecture domain, aiming to achieve a unified technology strategy.

Reference software architecture management. Definition of best practices, regulations, design guides, and development of the architecture's technological components for application within the Santalucía ecosystem, as well as management of the governance model and lifecycle of architecture assets.

Leadership of projects and initiatives. Management of participation in the definition, design, construction, deployment, and production phases of applications from the Software Architecture scope, following the lifecycle and development methodologies defined for the ecosystem, as well as participation in their evolution.

Production support. You will help provide the Organization with an agile technological architecture that, supported by components and assets, allows the Technology Area to quickly and efficiently cover the business needs required by the IT Strategic and Transformation Plan.

Teams to interact with:

Collaboration with Demand Management: Reception of business demand and the requirements associated with each of them, determining the need for functional architecture intervention and its type of involvement.

Collaboration with the Application Development, Channels/Customers, and Analytical Center of Excellence departments.

Collaboration with Infrastructure and Operations.

Business Support.

Collaboration with Enterprise Architecture (other domains).

Collaboration with professional and technology service providers and product manufacturers.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Required qualification:

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or Telecommunications

Required English level B2 minimum (C1 desirable)

Valuable degree:

Additional training in architecture governance frameworks or IT.

Certification in microservices architectures and J2EE.

Required experience:

Minimum 10 years of experience in the IT sector and at least 5 years in similar roles.

Experience in executing transformation processes in large companies will be valued.

Required Knowledge:

Demonstrable experience in:

Microservices architectures and batch processes based on Spring Boot and Spring Batch, deployed on PaaS/CaaS platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes (Red Hat OpenShift). Additional experience in J2EE environments and architectures and applications developed in C language will be valued.

Micro-frontend architectures based on Angular and Nginx. Experience in traditional architectures based on HTML/Javascript will be valued.

Mobile Architecture. Knowledge of native languages Kotlin and Swift.

Development and deployment of applications or use of Microsoft Azure native services.

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA). Experience and knowledge of streaming and messaging platforms/protocols such as Apache Kafka and ActiveMQ.

Design and documentation of APIs based on standards such as OpenAPI 3/Swagger 2, AVRO, AsyncAPI, JSON, YAML, WS-*, AMQP, MQTT, JMS.

CI/CD automation tools and frameworks such as Ansible, Tekton, Bitbucket, Argo CD.

Test automation (Testing Automation) within the microservices scope.

Experience as an IT project manager.

Valuable Knowledge:

Experience with enterprise architecture modeling tools, especially ARIS.

Enterprise architecture capabilities, enhancing the value of IT to the business.

Functional knowledge and experience in the healthcare sector.

Insurance reference models, such as ACORD.

Architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF.

Experience in project management.

Knowledge of agile methodologies.

Knowledge of corporate management tools, especially SAP products.

Knowledge of cloud technology stacks, in SaaS, PaaS models, etc. (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)

Experience in IT management and governance models.

Experience in managing relationships with suppliers.

Skills:

Analytical and problem-solving skills.

Organizational and communication skills at an executive level.

Goal-oriented.

Quality orientation and proven experience in project management.

Knowledge of economic-financial management of technology projects.

Interest in new technologies.

Experience:

Experience in managing technological projects in the insurance sector and in leading heterogeneous senior teams, with a solid methodological base (in both agile methodologies and the traditional waterfall model), demonstrating a differential value in the evolution of traditional environments and processes, as well as high-level interlocution capacity that allows different project lines to be undertaken with guarantees of success.

Definition of tactical and coexistence solutions to support analytics systems, including data models and data transformation processes.

Experience in performing business needs analysis and recommending technical solutions.

Knowledge of software design, including architecture patterns for Front-end and Back-end layers for the conceptualization and design of new architectures based on new IT paradigms and patterns (e.g., Microservices), as well as service-oriented architectures (SOA, Apification, etc.) and BPMN (Pega).

Demonstrated experience in developing PEGA solutions with Customer Services for Insurances, traditional UI, Cosmos, and Constellation….

Experience in the use of artificial intelligence and Robotics in Pega processes.

Experience in the use of tools linked to the SW lifecycle (Service Now).

Valuable:

3 years (minimum) of experience in developing Pegasystems projects, with 4-5 years being advisable.

5 years (minimum) in the insurance sector.

8 years (minimum) of experience in project development.

Required Knowledge:

Required formal education: Technical Engineering / Bachelor's degree in computer science or similar.

Additional required training: PegaSystems System Architect (SA) or Senior System Architect (SSA) Certification.

Certification in Agile methodologies for multidisciplinary development teams will be positively valued.

Training and official certifications related to project management, people management, and leadership, as well as technological certifications, will be positively valued.

Knowledge of artificial intelligence applied to business processes will be positively valued, especially regarding call centers and claims processing tasks and services. Knowledge of AI models, their configuration, and training will also be valued.

Languages, spoken and written: English, intermediate level.