Valitive is a leading next-generation information and credit company, providing innovative solutions to help businesses make smart, data-driven decisions throughout their entire value chain. We pride ourselves on our high-quality business, credit, and market information that optimizes risk, drives growth, and improves overall business decisions, relying on relevant and quality-assured data that creates value for our customers today and tomorrow.

We're looking for a highly motivated Chief Architect to join our committed team in Stockholm. As a Chief Architect, you'll be responsible for developing and maintaining our system architecture, ensuring its alignment with business objectives, scalability, security, and maintainability. You'll be responsible for identifying and evaluating new technologies and methodologies that will enhance our overall architecture.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain a scalable, secure, and maintainable system architecture that aligns with business objectives.

Collaborate with development and engineering teams to ensure system architecture meets technical and business requirements.

Identify and evaluate new technologies, tools, and methodologies that will enhance the system architecture.

Participate in the design and development of software solutions, ensuring they meet the required quality standards and performance requirements.

Define and document technical requirements, guidelines, and standards for the development team.

Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team.

Competence & Skills:

To be successful in this role, we're looking for someone with:

Proven experience as a Chief Architect or a similar role in a large-scale enterprise.

Strong understanding of software design principles and best practices, including OOP, SOA, microservices, and RESTful APIs.

Strong experience with Java 8+, Spring Framework (Core, Boot, MVC, Security, JDBC, REST), Elasticsearch, MySQL, and Docker/Kubernetes.

Experience with reactive programming and streaming technologies (e.g., Akka Streams, Kafka Streams).

Experience with cloud-based architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Knowledge of software testing, TDD, and CI/CD principles.

Strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to influence and build consensus across teams.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Our Tech Stack:

Java 8+

Spring Framework (Core, Boot, MVC, Security, JDBC, REST)

Elasticsearch

MySQL, DynamoDB

Docker, Kubernetes

Apache Kafka

RedisRESTful APIs

JUnit/TestNg, Mockito, REST Assured

Application:

If you're an experienced Chief Architect with a passion for creating innovative solutions, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply by submitting your resume no later than February 28th. Please note that this position could be filled earlier, as we screen and interview continuously.

Thank you for considering a career at Valitive. If you have any questions about the position, please contact David Thorängen, IT Director at Valitive, at david.thorangen@valitive.com & if You need information about the recruitment process please contact Ulrika Wörding, HR Manager  ulrika.wording@alektumgroup.com

We are looking forward to reading Your application!