Job Summary This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You are expected to remain close to implementation teams, review designs and code, mentor engineers, and actively support complex technical delivery challenges. You will collaborate closely with product teams, developers, and stakeholders to design scalable, secure, and data-led solutions that support Coface's strategic business growth and digital transformation objectives. Working alongside Enterprise and Data Architects, you will bridge the gap between business requirements and technology execution — ensuring architecture/technical decisions are transparent, cost-effective, compliant, and future-proof. Key Responsibilities Functional responsibilities Collaborate with product teams to gather, clarify, and formalize business requirements. Work as a team with Enterprise and Data Architects to translate business problems into architectural solutions. Analyze legacy systems and source code to understand current processes, data flows, and integration points. Document functional needs, architecture decisions, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) in Confluence. Conduct gap analyses between legacy systems and new business needs, identifying technical debt. Design modular, scalable functional architectures and phased transition strategies. Define integration points and coexistence patterns for parallel operation with legacy systems. Maintain a technical debt register and propose remediation roadmaps aligned with business priorities. Technical responsibilities Select appropriate technology stacks through Proof of Concepts (POCs) and benchmarks. Design and implement robust, scalable technical architectures. Ensure alignment between functional requirements and technical designs. Conduct code reviews to enforce architectural standards and best practices. Define and enforce non-functional requirements (NFRs): performance, availability, resilience, scalability, and capacity planning. Design for observability: structured logging, distributed tracing, monitoring, and alerting. Evaluate and recommend integration patterns: REST APIs, event-driven architecture (Kafka, RabbitMQ), ETL/ELT pipelines, iPaaS, and ESB where appropriate. Contribute to AI/ML platform architecture decisions, including model serving, data pipelines, and Agentic AI workloads. Software Engineering Leadership Define engineering standards and development practices. Drive code quality initiatives and technical excellence. Coach senior developers and lead developers across squads. Promote software craftsmanship and engineering best practices. Hands-on Technical Leadership Review critical solution designs. Participate in complex troubleshooting and root-cause analysis. Be able to prototype or implement technical spikes when required. Maintain sufficient hands-on knowledge of the technology stack. Security & Compliance responsibilities Contribute to security architecture reviews and ensure security requirements are addressed in solution designs. Participate in threat modeling exercises with Security teams. Ensure solution designs align with GDPR and corporate compliance requirements. Collaborate with security and compliance teams on incident management and audit readiness. Design architectures that satisfy regulatory requirements specific to financial services and insurance. Implementation & Delivery Oversight Monitor development progress and ensure adherence to architectural guidelines. Support teams in resolving technical challenges and optimizing performance. Participate in Agile ceremonies: sprint planning, architecture story refinement, and backlog grooming. Manage architecture runway to ensure upcoming features have the necessary technical foundation. Conduct production readiness reviews before go-live. Lead post-implementation reviews to capture lessons learned and refine architecture practices. Technical/Architectural Governance Participate in and contribute to Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and Architecture Design Authority Committees (ADAC). Maintain and enforce architecture standards, principles, and reference architectures. Author and curate Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) to ensure transparent decision-making.