.Technical Architect - With GCP + MicroservicesVML Enterprise SolutionsDepartment: TechnologyExpertise: TechnologyLocation: Porto, PortugalLast Updated: 6/25/2024At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an ever-evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse.Our global family now encompasses over 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences. Our expertise spans the entire customer journey, offering deep insights in communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology. We deliver end-to-end solutions that result in revolutionary work.The opportunity:Technical Architect required to work on an innovative platform project providing holistic AI solutions to our internal and external audiences. This is a complex and rewarding technical architecture role covering everything from IAM through to API design and MDM. It will require significant core architecture experience and a level of pragmatism when making key design decisions, considering all trade-offs, and being able to communicate direction and reasoning to our engineers and the wider senior stakeholders. The architecture role covers the application, integration, and data domains. You will need demonstrable experience of spearheading software architecture within fast-paced teams. You will need significant experience in designing for NFRs as well as functional requirements. Specific experience with application and infrastructure architecture components in GCP, including serverless and containerised environments, is essential.What you'll be doing:The successful candidate will be one of four technical architects responsible for the continued architecture and improvement of our platform. Your role will involve a large amount of technical architecture across the integration, application, and data model domains. You should be familiar with API design, data model design, designing for NFRs/quality attributes, and making informed decisions about the architecture of the platform.This is not a role for someone who doesn't also love development. While we have a team of engineers, you should come from a hands-on development background and hold the ability to read and peer-review the code of others. You need to be a great communicator: the role will include direct interaction with our clients, who include both technical and non-technical colleagues.As an architect, you would be expected to exemplify our commitment to continually looking for fresh technologies and innovative ideas, and sharing what we've learned with the team