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.

## Qualifications

• 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.

## Additional Information

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).