Hybrid Senior Platform Architect

at Swiss Re

• Job title: Senior Platform Architect
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: €60,000 - €100,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Azure, Cloud, Docker, Grafana, Hibernate, J2EE, Java, Kubernetes, Microservices, Prometheus, SDLC, Splunk, Spring, Spring Boot, SpringBoot
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Madrid, Spain

About the role

• Senior Platform Architect defining and governing Non-Functional Requirements at Swiss Re. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to build cloud-native SaaS solutions for Life & Health insurance clients.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the product-wide NFR framework, including principles, metrics, and design patterns for delivery teams
• Collaborate with solution architects, product owners, and engineering leads to capture, validate, and implement NFRs throughout the SDLC
• Conduct architecture and performance reviews to validate compliance with scalability, reliability, and resilience objectives
• Develop and maintain reference architectures, reusable blueprints, and NFR patterns that promote consistency across solutions
• Partner with security, infrastructure, and SRE teams to align architecture with enterprise policies and operational best practices
• Champion the integration of automated performance, resilience, and security testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Lead framework and library lifecycle management, including: Assessing and planning upgrades, migrations, and deprecations for technologies such as Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Java SDKs, and related open-source components
• Coordinating security patching and remediation to address vulnerabilities (CVEs) in underlying frameworks and dependencies
• Collaborating with platform teams to ensure compatibility with evolving Azure, containerization, and DevOps toolchains
• Support technology evaluations and architecture decisions to optimize for performance, cost, and operational efficiency
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to engineering teams on NFR and architecture best practices
• Continuously track and evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and tools related to SRE, observability, and cloud-native engineering

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in enterprise software engineering (preferably Java/J2EE ecosystem)
• 5+ years in architecture or technical leadership roles
• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful microservices, and related frameworks
• Proven experience with Azure Cloud, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD automation
• Proficiency with observability and performance tooling (Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk)
• Experience managing framework and library upgrades, dependency security remediation, and platform migrations
• Working knowledge of authentication/authorization (Okta, Azure AD, OAuth2/OpenID Connect)
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps and secure SDLC principles
• Familiarity with architecture modeling tools such as Enterprise Architect or Visio

Benefits

• Attractive performance-based variable compensation component
• Global and location specific benefits