Lead Architect - Service & Cloud
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt3 days ago
Kristiansand, NorwayStaff+
Responsibilities
- Drive consistent architecture and design decisions across development teams and reduce system fragmentation.
- Contribute hands-on to software design and development, including APIs, services, interfaces, code, and deployment patterns.
- Strengthen engineering practices covering code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, maintainability, and operational readiness.
- Ensure security-by-design is reflected in architecture and implementation.
- Guide pragmatic trade-offs among delivery needs, quality, security, and long-term maintainability.
- Identify and help address technical debt before it obstructs product development.
- Act as a technical bridge among development, product, security, infrastructure, and compliance teams.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on software development experience and experience designing and developing production software, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Experience making or influencing software architecture and system-level design decisions.
- Good understanding of software quality, automated testing, and maintainable design.
- Experience with CI/CD and modern software development and DevOps practices.
- Ability to simplify complex technical challenges and communicate them clearly.
- Professional fluency in written and spoken English.
- Valuable qualifications include Microsoft Azure, microservices, event-driven or distributed architectures, identity and access security, encryption, data protection, edge-to-cloud or hybrid architecture, regulated software environments, IEC 62443, NIST frameworks, and industrial, energy, maritime, offshore, or OT environments.
- The posting emphasizes relevant skills and experience rather than a specific number of years or a bachelor's or master's degree.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours, pension, insurance, subsidized varied lunch menu, free parking, and a supportive company culture.
- Diverse and inclusive work environment with opportunities to develop skills and share knowledge.
- Opportunity to influence the architecture and development of future digital solutions.
- Challenging work spanning software, cloud, edge, cybersecurity, and industrial environments.
- Career development, internal mobility, and continuous development support.
- Workplace: Kristiansand, Norway; applications may be submitted in Norwegian or English, with an application deadline of 1 December 2026.
About Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt builds K–12 curriculum, assessment, intervention, and supplemental learning products delivered via a unified digital platform alongside print materials. It sells subscriptions, print/digital programs, and professional learning services to school districts and educators in the U.S. and internationally. Headquartered in Boston, it is privately held under Veritas Capital and was formerly a publicly traded company on NASDAQ.