Technical Architect

Talan – Positive Innovation Talan is an international consulting group specializing in innovation and business transformation through technology. With over 7,200 consultants in 21 countries and a turnover of €850M, we are committed to delivering impactful, future-ready solutions. Talan at a Glance Headquartered in Paris and operating globally, Talan combines technology, innovation, and empowerment to deliver measurable results for our clients. Over the past 22 years, we’ve built a strong presence in the IT and consulting landscape, and we’re on track to reach €1 billion in revenue this year. Our Core Areas of Expertise - Data & Technologies: We design and implement large-scale, end-to-end architecture and data solutions, including data integration, data science, visualization, Big Data, AI, and Generative AI. - Cloud & Application Services: We integrate leading platforms such as SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft, AWS, and IBM Maximo, helping clients transition to the cloud and improve operational efficiency. - Management & Innovation Consulting: We lead business and digital transformation initiatives through project and change management best practices (PM, PMO, Agile, Scrum, Product Ownership), and support domains such as Supply Chain, Cybersecurity, and ESG/Low-Carbon strategies.We work with major global clients across diverse sectors, including Transport & Logistics, Financial Services, Energy & Utilities, Retail, and Media & Telecommunications. The Technical Architect will serve as the technical point of reference, with the objective of transforming business goals into robust, evolvable, secure, and operable architectures. They will lead end-to-end technical architecture design, establish technical and non-functional criteria, support the team during implementation, and ensure that deliverables meet the quality, performance, resilience, and security levels required by a critical enterprise platform. Responsibilities - Define the end-to-end technical architecture of the project, including components, integrations, data flows, dependencies, and boundaries of responsibility. - Make and document architectural decisions using ADRs, evaluating alternatives, trade-offs, evolution costs, risks, and operational consequences. - Translate functional and non-functional requirements into implementable designs, technical acceptance criteria, and an evolution roadmap. - Design scalable and resilient distributed solutions, considering consistency, concurrency, idempotency, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery. - Participate in the development of critical components and conduct code reviews focused on design, maintainability, security, and operational behavior. - Define the testing and quality strategy: unit, integration, contract, end-to-end, performance, resilience, and security testing. - Design and review APIs, integration contracts, persistence schemas, and compatibility and evolution mechanisms. - Evaluate performance and capacity through analysis, profiling, load testing, and the definition of measurable latency and throughput targets. - Ensure the automation of builds, validations, static analysis, deployments, and quality controls within CI/CD pipelines. - Integrate secure-by-design principles, threat modeling, secrets management, access control, and traceability into the architecture. - Identify technical risks, structural debt, and bottlenecks; prioritize their remediation and communicate their impact on timeline, cost, and scope. - Participate in planning complex deliveries, technical estimations, milestone definition, and tracking architectural commitments. - More than 4 years of experience as a Technical Architect, with demonstrable experience leading the design and delivery of platforms or projects of high technical complexity. - At least 5 years of experience in software development and in Java, Spring Boot, APIs, persistence, distributed systems, automated testing, and CI/CD. - Experience in regulated or financial environments with high availability, performance, security, and traceability requirements. - Experience conducting architecture reviews, defining standards, managing technical debt, and evolving existing systems. - Experience working with Agile methodologies and collaborating cross-functionally with Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Business teams. - Advanced experience with Java 21, Spring Boot 3.x, and designing mission-critical enterprise applications. - Mastery of microservices architecture, distributed systems, synchronous and asynchronous integration, and communication patterns. - In-depth knowledge of REST API design, contracts, versioning, backward compatibility, and integration governance. - Experience with Spring Data JPA, data modeling, transactions, PostgreSQL, and query and persistence optimization. - Experience with Gradle or Maven, multi-module projects or composite builds, dependency management, and build automation. - Mastery of SOLID principles, DDD, Clean Architecture, design patterns, and refactoring and safe evolution techniques. - Experience defining testing strategies using JUnit 5, Mockito, AssertJ, as well as contract, integration, and performance testing. - Solid knowledge of concurrency, caching, messaging, idempotency, consistency, resilience, and fault tolerance. - Experience with Git, code reviews, branching strategies, and collaborative development practices at scale. - Experience with CI/CD, automated quality, static analysis, artifact management, and controlled deployments. - Knowledge of observability: structured logs, metrics, distributed traces, alerting, and production diagnostics. Languages - Minimum B2 English level, mandatory. A professional level is required to lead decisions and collaborate with international teams. - Spanish – professional level, minimum B2, mandatory. Nice to Have - Experience in the architecture of financial platforms, corporate banking, trading, or high-criticality transactional systems. - Experience with event-driven architectures, Kafka, or other messaging and distributed processing platforms. - Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud, and deployment patterns such as blue-green, canary, and rolling releases. - Experience applying OAuth2, OpenID Connect, threat modeling, secrets management, and application security controls. - Knowledge of SRE, SLO/SLI, capacity, high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity. - Experience in application modernization, progressive migrations, the strangler pattern, and technical debt reduction. - Experience defining architecture standards, technical reviews, and governance models in large organizations. - Domain knowledge of Trade Finance or Documentary Trade. What do we offer you? - Full-time or B2B contract - Remote within CET Time zone.  - Possibility to be part of a multicultural team and work on international projects.  If you are passionate about data, development & tech, we want to meet you ! Talan Spain’s commitment to non-discrimination based on gender, race, ideology, or any other reason, in accordance with the company’s "Equality Plan" and the current regulations on gender equality between women and men (Royal Decree-Law 6/2019).