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Frontex is looking for a Software Factory Architect to shape the technical backbone of our software engineering organisation. This is a high-impact, enterprise-level role for an experienced architect who thrives on setting direction, influencing without formal authority, and turning architectural vision into practical, adopted standards across multiple engineering teams.

You’ll sit at the intersection of strategy and hands-on engineering — trusted to define how we build software, not just what we build. If you enjoy mentoring senior engineers, designing systems that scale, and being the person teams turn to when a solution needs to work today and hold up in five years, this role is built for you.

What You’ll Do

• Advise and guide. Act as a trusted technical advisor across software engineering teams, helping them make sound architectural decisions.
• Shape how we build. Design and continuously evolve the software development lifecycle and engineering processes.
• Architect at scale. Review, recommend, and validate end-to-end solution architectures for complex, cross-team projects.
• Set the standard. Define architecture standards, reference architectures, and best practices that teams can actually use.
• Own the vision. Drive and evolve the engineering vision for the entire software factory.
• Keep it coherent. Ensure architectural consistency and alignment across the enterprise, so systems interoperate rather than diverge.
• Mentor and elevate. Provide hands-on consultation and mentoring to senior engineers and technical leads, raising the bar across the organisation.

What You’ll Bring

Experience & Education

• 8+ years in IT, including 5+ years in an architecture role.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Proven track record designing enterprise-scale, cloud-native, distributed systems.
• Hands-on development background in backend and/or frontend technologies (.NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, or equivalent).
• Solid DevSecOps expertise: CI/CD platform design, containerisation, orchestration, and platform engineering.
• A track record as a recognised technical leader — someone who influences teams and drives decisions through credibility, not job title.

Skills

• Excellent communication and documentation skills; able to translate architectural vision into language both engineers and stakeholders understand.
• Comfortable operating at both strategic (enterprise) and tactical (solution-level) altitude.

Certifications (at least 2 of the following, or recognised equivalents)

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)

Language

• English, minimum B2 level (certified).

Nice to Have

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Azure services.
• Experience modelling systems using ArchiMate notation.
• Strong grounding in architecture styles and design patterns (e.g., microservices, event-driven, hexagonal).

What We Offer

• Daily Rate: 480 – 520 euros
• Opportunity to work on meaningful European projects with real societal impact
• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies (semantic web, knowledge graphs, modern cloud architecture)
• Collaborative, international team environment
• Professional development and learning opportunities

UpcoMinds is a dynamic IT company with 29 years of experience that provides end-to-end web and mobile solutions, helping businesses to reinvent themselves in the digital world. Our team’s skills and expertise will ensure the holistic digital transformation of any organisation, which will considerably improve both business operations and customers’ experience. Our goal is to always have our end products and services reflect our deep engineering skills and elegant progressive design aesthetic. We fundamentally believe deeply in developing long-term strategic partnerships with our clients by exceeding expectations and maintaining a high level of transparency.

Find out more about us at www.upcominds.com

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