13 days ago
Málaga, SpainStaff+
Responsibilities
- Drive overarching technical architecture strategy in alignment with business objectives.
- Define and enforce enterprise architecture standards, engineering principles, and governance frameworks.
- Lead emerging technology research, R&D initiatives, prototyping, and production transitions.
- Develop engineering capabilities, best practices, and continuous learning across cross-functional teams.
- Oversee centralized internal libraries, common components, shared services, SDKs, and developer-facing tooling.
- Design and standardize deployment patterns, infrastructure-as-code, pipeline automation, and cloud-native operational architectures.
Requirements
- Senior or executive-level architectural leadership experience in high-scale enterprise environments, preferably fintech or payments.
- Deep expertise in enterprise software design, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and microservices architecture.
- Experience establishing technology governance frameworks and engineering quality standards.
- Hands-on experience leading R&D efforts and transitioning innovations into production.
- Experience mentoring engineering teams and building reusable libraries, SDKs, and platform tooling.
- Mastery of modern deployment strategies, infrastructure-as-code, pipeline automation, and high-availability architectures.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and strategic vision skills.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical insurance and four additional undocumented sick leave days.
- Internal meetups, conferences, workshops, Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications.
- Flexible working hours and 23 vacation days.
- Internal Mobility Program and opportunities to work on global-scale projects.
- Friendly, collaborative environment with team-building events and an open-door policy.
- Full-time role based in Málaga, Spain, with a hybrid work setup.
About Ciklum
Ciklum is an IT services firm that builds custom digital products and provides nearshore engineering teams, QA, DevOps, data analytics, and UX for enterprises and high-growth startups. It operates a services model spanning product engineering, e-commerce solutions, and managed delivery centers. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in London, the privately held company serves global clients including Just Eat and Zurich Insurance.