Software Architect

Summary

Andersen is hiring a Software Architect for a project integrating an insurance platform into the client’s ecosystem, ensuring seamless alignment with existing systems and business processes.

The customer is an international insurance company operating across multiple countries, known for expertise in niche markets and commitment to high-quality service. With strong governance and transparent practices, it promotes a culture of innovation, diversity, and continuous learning. Recent achievements, including record financial results and recognition for customer service, highlight its resilience and long-term value creation.

The project is focused on integrating OneShield into the client’s ecosystem, ensuring seamless alignment with existing systems, processes, and workflows to enhance efficiency and support business operations.

Responsibilities

• Defining and maintaining the overall technical vision and system architecture aligned with business goals and IT strategy.
• Designing scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions across multiple systems and platforms.
• Collaborating with development teams, Business Analysts, and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical designs.
• Providing hands-on technical guidance to developers and promoting best practices in architecture, coding, and DevOps.
• Evaluating and recommending technologies, frameworks, and tools to improve system performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Conducting architecture and design reviews to ensure compliance with enterprise standards and architectural principles.
• Defining and documenting architectural blueprints, data models, and system interfaces.
• Overseeing implementation of architectural decisions throughout the development lifecycle.
• Ensuring compliance with security, performance, and scalability standards.
• Supporting system integrations and ensuring consistency of data flows across applications.
• Working with DevOps teams to optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment architecture.
• Conducting impact assessments and providing effort and risk estimates for new initiatives.
• Supporting troubleshooting and performance optimization of production systems.
• Communicating technical strategies, risks, and roadmaps to stakeholders and senior management while promoting continuous architectural improvements.

Requirements

• Experience as a Software Architect for 4+ years.
• Strong background in software architecture and enterprise system design, preferably within the insurance or financial services domain.
• Proven expertise in Java Enterprise Edition, Spring Framework, and microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of integration patterns, REST/SOAP APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with application servers (WildFly, Tomcat, JBoss) and build tools (Maven, Gradle).
• Strong knowledge of relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server).
• Excellent understanding of security principles, performance optimization, and scalability design.
• Skilled in Agile methodologies, with experience guiding teams through iterative delivery.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and mentoring skills to align cross-functional teams.
• Ability to balance strategic vision with practical implementation details.
• Level of English – from Upper-Intermediate and above.

Desired skills

• Experience with cloud-native and serverless architectures.
• Familiarity with API Management platforms and frontend integration patterns.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), and DevOps best practices.
• Understanding of Agile practices such as TDD, BDD, Kanban, or XP.
• Previous experience acting as a technical lead or solution architect in complex enterprise environments.

Reasons to join us

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Job conditions – you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 USD per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• English courses.
• Private health insurance and compensation for sports activities.

Join us!

Locations

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, USA