[Job - 29521] System Architect, Brasil

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Key Responsibilities

- Architectural Blueprinting: Define and maintain the overarching architectural vision, designing blueprints for scalable, distributed, and highly available systems.

Requirements Summary

- Professional Experience: 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years acting in a dedicated System Architect or Principal Engineer capacity.

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We are tech transformation specialists, uniting human expertise with AI to create scalable tech solutions.

With over 8,000 CI&Ters around the world, we’ve built partnerships with more than 1,000 clients during our 30 years of history. Artificial Intelligence is our reality.

As a System Architect, you will be the technical visionary responsible for designing, defining, and governing the high-level structure of our enterprise software ecosystems. You will bridge the gap between business strategy and technical execution, making high-stakes decisions regarding frameworks, platforms, and infrastructural patterns. Your expertise will be vital as you steer engineering teams toward scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native architectures, managing technical debt while driving modern innovation.

Responsibilities:

- Architectural Blueprinting: Define and maintain the overarching architectural vision, designing blueprints for scalable, distributed, and highly available systems.
- Technical Governance: Establish technical standards, coding guidelines, and architectural guardrails, ensuring compliance across multiple engineering squads.
- Technology Evaluation: Lead the evaluation, prototyping, and selection of modern tools, platforms, and frameworks (such as choosing between monolithic vs. microservices, or specific database technologies).
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with Product Managers, Security Officers, and Engineering Leads to translate complex business strategies into viable, future-proof technical roadmaps.
- Risk & Performance Management: Conduct architectural reviews and root cause analyses on system bottlenecks to optimize for latency, throughput, and cost-efficiency.
- Mentorship & Advocacy: Champion engineering excellence by mentoring Tech Leads and Senior Developers, fostering a proactive and autonomous engineering culture.

Requirements

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- Professional Experience: 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3+ years acting in a dedicated System Architect or Principal Engineer capacity.
- Architectural Mastery: Deep knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, microservices architecture, Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
- Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on expertise architecting cloud-native solutions on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including serverless computing, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Data Architecture: Strong understanding of relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL solutions (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra), knowing when to apply each model.
- Security & Compliance: Proven track record of designing secure systems, factoring in identity management (OAuth/OIDC), data encryption, and network security layers.
- Language: Advanced English proficiency (fluent verbal and written communication).

Nice-to-have Skills:
- DevOps Mastery: Advanced experience with CI/CD automation, service meshes (e.g., Istio), and system observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK stack).
- Legacy Decoupling: Proven experience applying patterns (like the Strangler Fig pattern) to systematically migrate legacy monoliths to modern architectures.
- AI/Data Streaming: Familiarity with heavy data streaming tools (Kafka, RabbitMQ) or high-scale AI infrastructure pipelines.
- Certifications: Professional certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or TOGAF.

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Our benefits:

-Health and dental insurance

-Meal and food allowance

-Childcare assistance

-Extended paternity leave

-Partnership with gyms and health and wellness professionals via Wellhub (Gympass) TotalPass;

-Profit Sharing and Results Participation (PLR);

-Life insurance

-Continuous learning platform (CI&T University);

-Discount club

-Free online platform dedicated to physical, mental, and overall well-being

-Pregnancy and responsible parenting course

-Partnerships with online learning platforms

-Language learning platform

And many more!

More details about our benefits here: https://ciandt.com/br/pt-br/carreiras

At CI&T, inclusion starts at the first contact. If you are a person with a disability, it is important to present your assessment during the selection process. See which data needs to be included in the report by clicking here.This way, we can ensure the support and accommodations that you deserve. If you do not yet have the assessment, don't worry: we can support you in obtaining it.

We have a dedicated Health and Well-being team, inclusion specialists, and affinity groups who will be with you at every stage. Count on us to make this journey side by side.