Solutions Architect - Aws

We're an award-winning innovative tech consultancy - a team of creative problem solvers. Since 1993 we've been finding better, more sustainable ways to solve complex technology problems for some of the world's leading organisations and delivered solutions that millions of people use every day.
In the last 30 years we won several awards, including our most recent inclusion in the Forbes World's Best Management Consulting Firms report.
Operating from 26 locations across the world, we bring together teams of creative experts with diverse backgrounds and experiences, who enjoy working and learning in our collaborative and open culture and are committed to world-class delivery.
Our story in Portugal started in 2020 with a small office in Lisbon. The team is now over 100 across Lisbon and Porto, and we are the perfect blend of national and international collaboration and reputation.
We want to continue to grow and need people just like you!
About the RoleWe're looking for architects with strong technical knowledge, full life-cycle project experience and excellent communication skills to bridge the gap between client and engineering teams.
You'll bring extensive experience operating within the technology industry across various ecosystems, including architectural styles such as microservices, modulith, serverless, and event-driven and data architectures. You'll be proficient in architectural patterns including CQRS, event sourcing, service mesh and the Saga pattern, amongst others.
You'll be flexible in the types of engagements undertaken - from leading the design of cutting-edge greenfield platforms to performing Delivery Assurance tasks in multi-vendor environments. This includes experience with agile methodologies, DevOps practices, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
You should be able to advise on data principles, governance, patterns and technologies, and how these shape or support architectures you design. You'll have hands-on experience with public cloud services like AWS, Azure or GCP.
Additionally, you will possess a deep knowledge and focus on security and privacy, including best practices and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) and their applications in data platform implementations. This also encompasses experience with identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and data masking techniques.
About YouAs one of our Architects, you will use your broad technical knowledge, full lifecycle project experience and excellent communication skills to bridge the gap between client and internal delivery managers, enterprise architects, operations teams, UX consultants and developers.
Successful applicants should be able to evidence the following:
Ability to be versatile, comfortable evaluating a new Open Source technology in a rapid technical spike, presenting to a CIO on a package selection, or working with a technical tester and a support desk engineer to debug a time-critical P1 issue.Confidently able to serve as a leader of an agile delivery organisation, ensuring that Agile processes and Product focused lifecycles deliver the right value, at the right time. You'll support in the definition of the application and data target state and will work pragmatically in overcoming constraints as the team moves towards that goal.As a technical authority, you lead by example and inspire delivery teams to create great software products that demonstrate the art of the possible. You help in the creation of architectural decision making frameworks and support the organisations wider governance function. You mentor developers to ensure they see the wider picture and meet our exacting standards; while acknowledging the deep experience they bring from spending hours a day working on a codebase.You enjoy working in the technology industry and are constantly adapting your skillset in line with industry trends.You have energy and a pragmatic, delivery-focused attitude that wins the respect of those around you and makes you a trusted technical advisor.You're willing, and capable of being hands-on when you need to be.You balance innovation and intellectual rigour with realism.You love technology and want to keep on learning, with a genuine interest in understanding the challenges your users face and how you can help them.Fluent in SpanishSome of the PerksCoverflex Flexible Benefit allowance – you can choose to spend your allowance on pension contributions, wellbeing, gym and fitness, education, childcare and more.22 days holiday per year, plus National Bank Holidays (or a day in lieu).An industry-leading referral scheme, with no limits on the number of referrals.Hybrid working - Our roles are not fully remote as we take pride in the tight knit communities we have created at our local offices. But we offer plenty of flexibility and you can split your time between the office, client site and WFH.We also help you set up your home office to make sure you're comfortable with hybrid working.Training opportunities and incentives – we support professional certifications across engineering and non-engineering roles, including unlimited access to O'Reilly.You will become part of a squad with people from different areas within the business who will help you grow at BJSS.Giving back – the ability to get involved nationally and regionally with partnerships to get people from diverse backgrounds into tech.BJSS Clubs: From trekking and paddle to books and board games, BJSS is keen on sponsoring various group activities among our employees.At BJSS, the rewards aren't based on your time served, they're based on merit and the strength of your contributions. In exchange for bringing your best ideas to the most challenging problems, you'll be compensated with a competitive salary and the knowledge that you'll be rewarded and recognized for giving it your all.
Benefits that suit youAside from the standard annual leave allowance, life assurance and pension, our flexible benefits allowance lets you decide which benefits you want, with options across industry-leading health and wellbeing, buying and selling annual leave, electric vehicle scheme, GymFlex gym membership, as well as discounts across dozens of retail, lifestyle, and utility brands.
Bring your authentic self to workWe've built an environment where respect and inclusivity are paramount, where fantastic people of all kinds are free to be themselves and get on with doing a great job. And even though BJSS is a global business, each regional office is as distinct and idiosyncratic as the people in it – you can expect to be part of a unique, tight-knit community with a busy social calendar.
Make your markClients trust us to get the hard things done. And if you join us, you'll be faced with challenges only people like you have the drive to solve. You'll be pushed out of your comfort zone, and you won't be sitting on the sidelines, but you'll also make a real difference on extraordinary projects.
Forge your own pathAt BJSS, we don't believe in job titles or hierarchies, so how you progress in the company is entirely down to you. You've got the flexibility and freedom to follow your interests and pursue your career goals - with full support, training opportunities and incentives from the business.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES & DIVERSITY STATEMENTBJSS is committed to equal opportunities and diversity so we want to ensure that our recruitment and selection processes are fair to all who wish to apply.
We encourage you to feel confident to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to the application or interview process to help support you. You can do this by speaking to your BJSS recruitment contact.

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