Solutions Architect

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EcoVadis is the leading provider of business sustainability ratings. Our solutions are backed by an international team of experts and powerful technology. We analyze data and build sustainability scorecards that give companies actionable insights into their environmental, social and ethical risks.

Why apply to EcoVadis? Be a part of the global sustainability change in business. Grow your career. Work with extraordinary people. Feel valued for your contribution.

Learn more about our team and culture on EcoVadis careers page.

As we continue to evolve our platform, expand our product ecosystem, and embed AI more deeply into how we operate, we are strengthening our Solutions Architecture capability to bridge business strategy and engineering execution.

This Solution Architect role sits at the heart of that journey. It plays a critical role in shaping our long-term architecture, ensuring our platforms remain scalable, resilient, agentic-AI enabled, and API-driven, while enabling product teams to move fast with confidence. 

The role has a direct impact on how we design systems, govern architectural decisions, introduce AI-enabled patterns, and turn complex business needs into pragmatic, future-proof solutions that support EcoVadis’ growth and innovation agenda.

Job Description:

• Communicate with business, analyze and suggest efficient solutions based on their requirements;

• Define and maintain architecture roadmap, technical solutions for new and existing functionality for each parts of the projects;

• Lead the design of API-first and contract-driven architectures, ensuring APIs are consistent, well-governed, reusable, and aligned with domain boundaries;

• Deliver architectural services, including guidance and conceptual design as well as technical and process innovations;

• Contribute to the definition and implementation of AI-enabled architectural patterns, such as agent orchestration, tool-based reasoning, workflow automation, and human-in-the-loop systems;

• Investigate latest technology and build quick Proof of Concept functionalities to address future business needs;

• Preparing, improving and introducing new approaches/methodologies/tools and techniques within department;

• Preparing, reviewing and validating software technical blueprints.

• Govern architecture decisions and tech implementation

• At least 5 years of experience as an Architect;

• Deep expertise in API strategy, API management and API design, including RESTful and event-based APIs, contract-first design, versioning strategies, backward compatibility, and API lifecycle management;

• Practical experience or strong exposure to Agentic AI architectures, including: LLM-based systems and tool-augmented agents, Agent orchestration, workflows, and decision automation

• Proven experience in designing, building and maintaining microservices architectures with a deep understanding of best practices, design patterns, and principles for highly decoupled and scalable systems;

• Excellent knowledge of all aspects software engineering process, including Coding, Testing, Deployment, Scalability, Security, Maintainability;

• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft stack (.Net, .Net Core, Web API, SQL Server, Azure);

• Extensive experience in defining and enforcing architectural patterns (SOA, CQRS, Event Sourcing etc.);

• Demonstrated ability to apply strategies for efficient communication, data consistency, and resilience across microservices, including experience with API design, message-based communication, and event-driven architectures;

• Solid experience in implementing observability, monitoring, and logging solutions to effectively track system performance, diagnose issues, and ensure the health and stability of our SaaS applications, with knowledge of popular tools and frameworks for these purposes;

• Experience in working with global and regional projects, virtual expert teams, appreciating local differences and adapting to difference in cultures;

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;

• Proficiency in English.

Location: Hybrid in Barcelona (4 times a month in the office) / Full remote from Spain

In return for your expertise, we offer:

• Support with all the necessary office and IT equipment
• Flexible working hours
• Wellness allowance for mental and physical wellbeing
• Access to professional mental health support
• Referral bonus policy
• Learning and development 
• Sustainability events and community involvement
• Peer recognition program
• Employee-led resource groups
• Remote work from abroad policy
• Meals and Transportation Vouchers (Cobee card)
• Dental Benefits 
• Life & Accident Insurance + Private Health Insurance
• Paid employee volunteer day
• Paid moving day (1/year)
• Time off: 1 Community Service Day + 1 Personal Day
• Summer Hours in July and August (36 hours per week)
• Hybrid Monthly Allowance for electricity and Internet

Our hiring team looks forward to reviewing your CV, in English, with a guaranteed response to every application. A new job with purpose awaits you! 

Don’t fit all the criteria but still think you’d be a good candidate? Please apply anyway to give our hiring team the opportunity to assess your skills and to learn more about what you could bring to EcoVadis. We’re interested in hiring from a diverse and skilled talent pool, regardless of professional and educational background.

Can the hiring process be adjusted to suit my needs? Yes. We want everyone going through the hiring process with EcoVadis to feel confident that you are able to demonstrate your full potential. We welcome applications from disabled people, people with long-term health conditions, and neurodiverse candidates. If you need any adjustments, including the provision of interview questions, please let the hiring team know.

Our team’s strength comes from everyone’s uniqueness and is founded upon mutual respect. EcoVadis commits to equity, inclusion and reducing bias in our hiring processes. EcoVadis does not accept any form of discrimination based on color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, parental status, or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique. In your application, we encourage you to remove personal information such as: photographs, marital status, number of children, religion, gender, residential postal code, university graduation date, past medical or parental leave(s) taken, nationality (instead, please state if you are legally eligible to work in the job region/country), university name (instead, please state any degrees obtained and the study major).