Senior Cloud (Saas) Architect

  • Lisboa
  • Sentinels

Sentinels (Financial Risk & Compliance)

We believe AI to be the single most transformative technology of our time.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning create unprecedented new ways to live and do business. With expertise and insights from the real world, we build products which automate processes, detect anomalies, or predict outcomes. And we’re growing our team!

Senior Cloud (SaaS) Architect

Are you an experienced cloud architect with strong ownership skills? Do you think that cloud-native is not just technology, but a mindset? Do you want to put the latest technologies to use for hundreds of customers in different industries?

Responsibilities

  • Owning a highly scalable architecture for our SaaS platform
  • Guide the transformation from Single-tenant to Multi-tenant SaaS
  • Setting architectural guidelines for our teams, encouraging automation and a Cloud-native mindset
  • Owing the security and data privacy architecture
  • Transform the strategy as defined by the CTO into a technology roadmap and drive execution with the teams
  • Setting the cloud technology vision for the company

Requirements :

  • 5+ years of experience designing, executing, and supporting cloud solutions based on AWS cloud-based environments and have managed significant production workloads on such systems before
  • Strong knowledge of cloud-native architecture patterns
  • Working experience with Terraform
  • Well known with a managed Kubernetes and Docker platform (on the public cloud) and able to manage workloads that scale well, are secure by default and meet high availability demands.
  • Solid architecture, design, and implementation experience with event-driven and data streaming design patterns
  • A proven track record in leading architectural decisions & driving innovation
  • Besides our basic requirements, you should feel comfortable with our technology stack.
  • Huge bonus points for a background in fintech, payments or banking!
  • Strong knowledge of professional software engineering, e.g. SOLID principles, Clean Code, Separation of Concerns
  • Outstanding analytical and communication skills (English) with strong advisory skills

Nice to have

  • You have managed workloads in environments where a high level of security implementation, such as ISO27001, SOC2 or PCI/DSS
  • Experience with AWS Security hub, CloudWatch and Config is an advantage

Technology stack

  • Main Back End technologies: Python, ElasticSearch, Postgres, Django, Django Rest Framework, Docker, AWS Lambdas.
  • Other technologies in our stack: Kafka, ReactJS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Lambda, Terraform, AWS (Cloud-watch, Redis, S3, SNS, Cognito)

Development tools : Gitlab CI/CD, Cypress, VS

Collaboration tools : Jira, Miro, Confluence, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Figma, Slack

About You

  • You are keen on being the best in your field and want to help Sentinels in its continuous growth.
  • Ambition to help drive positive change
  • Great sense of empathy that allows you to make user-centric decisions
  • Creative and endlessly curious
  • Self-motivated to take the initiative and ownership of your work
  • Passionate about excellence Full Multi-tenant SaaS Solutions

Benefits

We are a team of innovators at the forefront of technical knowledge and cutting-edge techniques. Innovation is at the heart of everything we do, from research to prototype, from feature validation to new product launches.

We hire talents who dare to take a stand and explore new directions. We empower our team to be self-leading, take the initiative and experiment because we believe that creative and fulfilled people build the most helpful and inventive products.

We offer :

  • An entrepreneurial environment where you learn more every day
  • Personal responsibility with a ton of autonomy
  • A chance to see your work make a real difference in the real world
  • Work side-by-side with highly motivated people
  • If you think this sounds interesting, we’d love to hear from you!