Tech Lead / Architect

Skills & Requirements

Ready to start the next chapter in your career journey? You’re in the right place. We’re always happy to hear from people who are eager to learn and grow, and share our values. Welcome home.

We're looking for Tech Lead/Architect

Tech Lead's / Architects at Futurice are generalists working across industries to help clients solve their important challenges in business and technology. They work with digital services, software development and improving how digital is done in big organizations. They have a wide understanding of technology and a toolset of modern frameworks and methodologies. Tech Lead's/Architects often have years of experience in software development but have extended the scope of problems to tackle as they also want to see the impact being made to organizational issues. Here are some examples of our expertise:

DevOps & Cloud architecture

• Solid experience with AWS, Google Cloud and/or Microsoft Azure
• Designing for Single Cloud provider or Hybrid Cloud scenarios
• Developing complex scenarios using cloud agnostic stacks

Security architecture

• Facilitating Threat Modeling & Risk Management workshops
• Security Auditing and recommending code pipeline best practices

AI & Data architecture

• Building Data Lake and Data Warehousing solutions in the Cloud
• Analytics, Visualizations and Business Intelligence systems (e.g. Splunk, Kibana, PowerBI, QlikView, QuickSight, Data Studio, etc)
• AI/Machine Learning model creation and training (e.g. Tensorflow, Apache MXNet)

Additionally, you will take a significant role in shaping the architecture team and contributing to our company thought leadership efforts. Due to the exploratory nature of this role, you will also assist in account management and sales related activities.

Are you our new colleague?

• You have a broad knowledge of tools, frameworks and technologies related to designing, implementing, deploying and hosting software services.
• Solid experience in at least one of the following Architecture domains: DevOps & Cloud, Security and/or Data & AI
• Strong expertise in agile software development and methods (e.g. Scrum, Kanban).
• You have experience in designing and implementing modern REST-based APIs, using e.g. Java, Scala, or Node.js.
• You have a good understanding of both relational databases as well as no-SQL databases.

• Good leadership skills in achieving momentum, action and results

• Ability to ask the right questions and drive troubleshooting with experts

• Thought leader and influencer: public speaking, tech articles, etc.

• Willingness to take a step in the abstraction level to solve organizational issues and drive towards results in big projects.

• Ability to work in diverse work cultures and comfortable with nonhierarchical organizations.

• Fluent English is required, Finnish skills is a plus.

Next steps

Does this sound like the opportunity you’ve been looking for? If yes, that’s great news – please head on over to the next phase and submit your application.

Our application form is about as easy as it gets, just enter your contact information and upload your attachments. We’re hoping to see at least your CV and a few lines about yourself and why you want to join Futurice (for inspiration, take a look here to read our tips on how to stand out from the other applicants). You’ll also have the option to submit links to your LinkedIn and/or GitHub profile or your portfolio, as well as share other attachments relevant to the application.

We will process the applications in the order of their arrival. Those selected for the interview phase can look forward to an initial discussion, both in order for us to get to know you better, and for you to get more familiar with life at Futurice. That will be followed by an in-depth talk with your potential future colleagues to dive deeper into your professional skills, and finally, one more general chat where you’ll discuss things like your potential future projects.

How we work

Ever since Futurice was founded, we’ve been committed to offering a workplace people will genuinely enjoy coming to every morning, Mondays included. We’ve put tons of effort into fostering a healthy and welcoming company culture combined with fair and competitive salaries as well as perks that improve the wellbeing of each Futuricean – take a look here to learn more, check our Culture handbook 2.0 and get to know some of our people through their career stories. Each of our offices also adds its own unique vibe and flavor into the mix. Learn more about our offices here!

At Futurice, new joiners are not expected to fit into a specific mold – people are free to come as they are, regardless of their background. We believe there’s power in perspectives and consider diversity an important part of our success – which is why we have made diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) a key component of our company’s strategy. You can learn more about our DE&I commitment and efforts here.

We’re Futurice

We are a team of over 800 professionals representing more than 60 nationalities in 6 countries. We help forward-thinking organizations solve their biggest challenges and empower them to make a positive impact on the world. We work with clients from several industries to co-create world-class digital services, both on-site and remotely. And we’d love to welcome you home right here, with us.