We're looking for a Solution Architect to join our united, dedicated, and enthusiastic team at LINK Mobility, Europe’s leading provider of mobile messaging. 

At LINK, we connect businesses to customers through our communications products and services that drive engagement and satisfaction during each stage of the customer journey.   

You're probably already familiar with us: we're behind the messages you receive via SMS, WhatsApp, email, or even to check-in for your upcoming flight, receive delivery notifications, cash in a mobile coupon to your favorite store, and so much more. 

It’s an exciting time to join LINK as we develop our award-winning communications platform as a service (CPaaS) offerings in this rapidly advancing tech industry. 

Position overview 

The solution architect has a key role in the development of our CPaaS platform and MyLINK products. The candidate will contribute to overall target architecture of new capabilities and features, development of our principles and guidelines as well as governing the implementation of the architecture. The candidate will be a part of the group architecture team, interact with product managers and product owners, peer with technology team leads, actively collaborate with development teams, supporting and consulting them, bringing knowledge and helping on technical everyday decisions.  

YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR: 

Architecture for new and changed capabilities 

• Drive architecture that fulfills goals, requirements, NFRs, cost and long-term viability for the solution landscape 
• Design new solution capabilities, interacting with the relevant stakeholders, understand the goals and requirements, producing timely solution architecture and guide the implementation 
• Drive and communicate architecture decisions 
• Support tech leads in software architecture development 
• Support management and product owners with implementation  

 Long term architecture 

• Contribution to architectural strategy, technology roadmaps and long-term viability of our services and communicate how it supports the company goals and product roadmap 
• Do research, prototyping and keep an eye on tech trends that may support our innovation 
• Contribute to our architecture principles, standards, guidelines, best practices and assure compliance 
• Identify and drive technical excellence items 

 Method, mentoring and skills development 

• Contribute to improvements of our software development lifecycle 
• Mentor our tech leads in development of software architecture and technical leadership 
• Contribution to competence and skills development  

WE HOPE YOU HAVE: 

• University education in computer science, software engineering or similar  
• 7+ years of previous experience as System Architect or Software Architect 
• Deep knowledge of practices and patterns related to high volume, distributed architecture 
• Good knowledge and experience with Azure ecosystem or other cloud vendor 
• Demonstrated architecture thinking and capability to deliver holistic architectures 
• Experience from different architecture styles, programming languages, and solution areas like event driven architecture, OOP, OAuth/OpenID 
• Experience from architecture methods or frameworks like UML, C4 or Togaf 
• Excellent documentation and communication skills to produce and communicate architecture and solution design 
• Fluency in English both verbal and written 

Nice to Have:  

• Experience from development or infrastructure platform development 
• Experience with various database technologies 
• Experience with Kubernetes, Kafka and specific Azure services 
• Previous knowledge of agile methods or project management experience  
• Knowledge of our industry 

OUR IDEAL MATCH IS 

• High energy, driven and a strong desire for success 
• Skilled in balancing technical and business priorities. 
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities in an international environment 
• Proactive and detail-oriented with excellent organizational skills. 
• Strong leadership and team coordination abilities 
• Enthusiastic about continuous improvement and innovation. 

 WE CAN OFFER YOU  

• A dynamic, international work environment 
• Growth opportunities supporting personal and professional development  
• Medical insurance 
• Food vouchers 
• Hybrid work plan with home office/distant working 
• Annual bonus eligibility based on achieved targets 
• Eligibility to enrol in LINK’s employee share purchase program, which provides a 20% discount on company stock purchased by permanent employees  
  *All benefits are subject to local terms and regulations and may be changed during the employment 

LOCATION: Sofia, Bulgaria 

Apply as soon as possible. Applications are evaluated on an ongoing basis. 

 LINK Mobility is publicly listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange with offices in 17 countries throughout Europe. We continue to experience strong organic growth and recurring revenue as businesses move more activities onto mobile platforms. In 2023, LINK Mobility had a total turnover of 6.3 billion NOK. 

 Every employee is an important member of LINK Mobility. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind – whether active or passive – based on ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, union membership, political views, age, or any other characteristic that results in compromising the principle of equality. LINK regards diversity as a lever for innovation and profitability.