Senior Solution Architect Team Lead (f/m) at Eurofins

As a Senior Solution Architect, you will ensure that our architecture enables high-quality outcomes, sound engineering practices, and effective alignment across teams. You will guide architectural decisions, strengthen governance, and support the organisation in adopting a consistent, Azure-ready, and reliable way of working.   Your Responsibilities: Empower the Architects • Act as a cohesive architecture team leader, working collaboratively with other architects to drive change and ensure consistent practices across products/teams and domains. • Onboard, mentor, and grow architects by aligning goals, priorities, responsibilities, and expectations. • Facilitate team-wide clarity on architectural pillars, decision-making approaches, and governance processes. • Promote a strong team identity (“team power”), ensuring architects coordinate effectively, support one another, and operate with a unified vision.Validate and Shape Technical Designs • Validate business requirements from a technical perspective and translate them into actionable, well-reasoned solution designs. • While ensure that Group standards are applied, contribute to their evolutions, with innovative proposals • Use Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) to make decisions explicit, including the rationale and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) considerations.Define and Steward System-Wide Architecture • Contribute to a coherent architecture across teams by defining a clear set of architecture pillars and ensuring they are followed. • Maintain updated system documentation, including diagrams, data flows, metadata, and integration views. • Promote simplification and ensure architecture decisions support overall strategy, speed of delivery, and maintainability.Lead Azure Solution Architecture • Guide the organisation in designing and building effectively on Azure. • Help the organisation choose the right level of abstraction along the cloud spectrum — from flexible IaaS → CaaS → PaaS → FaaS — balancing portability, engineering effort, and delivery speed. • Define cloud foundations: governance, identity & access, security-by-design, compliance, cost optimisation, observability, performance, and reliability. • Ensure technical choices leverage appropriate Azure services or custom components when justified.Champion Software Quality and Non-Functional Requirements • Define non-functional needs such as performance, scalability, resilience, monitoring, and configuration management. • Ensure modern SDLC practices are applied, including secure coding, zero-trust principles, threat modelling, regulatory compliance, and reliability engineering (SRE concepts, SLAs, metrics, resilience patterns).Collaborate and Communicate Effectively • Promote a collaborative, respectful, and supportive culture where architecture empowers teams to do their best work. • Work closely with distributed teams and stakeholders to align technical decisions with business priorities. • Communicate architecture at multiple levels — from executive summaries to detailed design sessions. • Support estimation, planning, and budgeting with clear architectural input.Serve and Enable the Organization • Act as a trusted partner to product owners, developers, tech leads, and stakeholders, helping them make better technical decisions with clarity and confidence. • Demonstrate a genuine passion for enabling teams — removing friction, simplifying complexity, and ensuring architecture is a service that supports delivery rather than a barrier. • Mentor architects and developers on solution design, architecture patterns, and best practices. • Support skills governance by helping identify expertise gaps (e.g., Azure, integration, observability) and promoting training and upskilling initiatives.Help teams understand decision trade-offs and align on consistent ways of working.   Standard benefits for Permanent Employees in Romania: • 13 monthly salaries per year (range for this position: 22 000- 25 000 RON net / month) • Meal Vouchers • Gym Reimbursement • Medical Subscription • Health Insurance • 25 days of holidays + 1 extra day off for your birthday • Additional holidays for your loyalty • Remote work activity