Principal Solutions Architect - Data & APIs

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end technical architecture for NIQ platform.
• Define solution architecture across UI, backend, and data/AI engines.
• Prototype and review code; pair with engineering leads.
• Design canonical domain and data contracts; versioning policy.
• Define plugin/extension SDK for multi-market config.
• Lead platform, cloud & delivery architecture decisions.

🎯 Requirements

• 9+ years software engineering; 3+ years architect role for cloud-native platforms.
• Microservice design with Java/Spring Boot; modern SPA frontends (Angular).
• Experience with AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD (GitHub Actions).
• Python-based data engineering / PySpark; data science pipelines.
• Multi-tenant, config-driven platforms; architecture decision gates.
• Code quality/security tooling (SonarQube, Cycode) in workflows.

🎁 Benefits

• Flexible working environment
• Volunteer time off
• LinkedIn Learning
• Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)