team.blue

Company Overview

team.blue is an ecosystem of successful brands working together across regions to provide customers with everything they need to succeed online. 60+ successful brands make up the group; with a team of 2700 experts serving its 3.3 million customers across Europe and beyond.

team.blue's brands are a mix of traditional hosting businesses, offering services from domain names, email, shared hosting, e-commerce and server hosting solutions and specialist SaaS providers offering adjacent products such as compliance, marketing tools and team collaboration products. This broad product offering makes it a one-stop partner for online businesses and entrepreneurs across Europe.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Software Engineering Architect to lead our group-wide software architecture strategy, drive innovation, and ensure scalable, efficient, and high-performance solutions. This role will play a critical part in defining the technical direction, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring that our technology aligns with business objectives.

Ideal candidates will have a strong technical background, proven leadership experience, and excellent communication skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performing, and secure software architectures.
• Define architectural best practices, design patterns, and technology roadmaps.
• Identify opportunities for standardization, consolidation, and cost savings through architecture.
• Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to ensure high-quality software delivery.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and frameworks.
• Lead and mentor the Software Architect team, working across diverse programming languages and geographical regions.
• Partner with product, engineering, DevOps, and security leaders to design and evolve system architectures that support current and future business goals.
• Oversee architectural governance, ensuring compliance with security and regulatory standards.
• Drive innovation and contribute to strategic planning for technology evolution.
• Conduct architectural reviews, evaluate trade-offs, and ensure best practices in software design, performance, security, and reliability
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on architecture-related decisions and future technology investments.
• Facilitate collaboration between engineering, product, and business teams to ensure alignment on architectural decisions.
• Ensure adherence to the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and implement best practices for quality assurance and security.
• Utilize tools and methodologies to measure and maintain high levels of software security and quality.
• Oversee key architectural initiatives, migrations, and platform evolution.
• Establish and maintain robust architecture documentation practices, ensuring clarity, traceability, and long-term maintainability of system designs.
• Define and evolve architecture governance processes, including decision-making frameworks, review cadences, and documentation standards across teams

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years in an architectural leadership role
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• Strong expertise in designing scalable and secure software architectures.
• Deep understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and API design.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages (e.g., PHP, Java, Python, C#, JavaScript).
• Experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong problem-solving skills with a strategic and analytical mindset.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams.
• Comprehensive understanding of SDLC, quality assurance practices, and security measures.
• Demonstrated experience in authoring and maintaining architecture documentation, blueprints, and standards.
• Strong analytical skills and a strategic mindset
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken