Solution Architect

About the company for Stolt Nielsen:

Stolt-Nielsen is a family-founded global leader in bulk-liquid and chemical logistics, transportation, and storage, known for its commitment to safety, service excellence, and innovation. At the Stolt-Nielsen Digital Innovation Centre, we bring this legacy into the future — building smarter systems, driving digital transformation, and shaping what's next for the world of logistics. Here, you're encouraged to think boldly, challenge convention, and help move today's products toward tomorrow's possibilities.

About the Role:

As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for designing end-to-end solutions that are scalable, secure, and aligned with both business and technical objectives. In our Tankers business, we are actively modernising our portfolio of business applications that are at the heart of our operations, such as our business planning applications, our customer and partner portals, financial systems and our interfaces on top of our data and AI products. You will be a key player in driving our digital transformation and developing innovative systems that directly enhance our operations and customer experiences. Our software runs on shore, but also on our ships which introduce interesting technical challenges in terms of connectivity and availability.

You will be part of a global business-led product team that operates with a DevOps mentality. It is a collaborative, diverse, fast-paced environment. The role is hands-on and requires autonomy, innovation, and collaboration, with a strong focus on clean, maintainable, and high-performance code.

You are also responsible for the overall architecture and strategy of technical systems, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring solutions are aligned with Stolt-Nielsen's business and technical goals.

We take Digital seriously. We invest in our teams through training and mentoring and enable them with the required tools to work in a modern way. As we are further building up our engineering practice, there is ample room for you to contribute, take initiative and shape the future of our ways of working and technology landscape.

What You'll Do:

• Define and own the overall architecture for business-critical applications using Node.js, Nestjs, Angular, Azure PaaS, and related technologies.
• Translate business requirements into robust, scalable, and maintainable technical solutions.
• Establish architectural standards, best practices, and governance for software development and system integration.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies, frameworks, and tools to enhance the technology stack and delivery capabilities.
• Collaborate with Tech Leads, Product Managers, and stakeholders to align solution designs with business goals and technical strategy.
• Guide and mentor engineering teams on architectural decisions, design patterns, and technical challenges.
• Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, and performance requirements.
• Oversee the migration of legacy systems (e.g., OutSystems) to modern platforms and cloud-native architectures.
• Support DevOps practices, CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Document architectural decisions, system designs, and integration patterns.
• Lead technical due diligence for strategic projects and initiatives.

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in software development, with at least 3 years in a solution or enterprise architect role.
• Deep expertise in Node.js, Express, Nestjs, Angular, Typescript, Azure PaaS (App Services, Service Bus, Function Apps, Logic Apps, CosmosDB, MongoDB).
• Proven experience designing distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native applications.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and Agile delivery.
• Experience with containerization and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to mentor and influence teams and drive engineering excellence.

Must Have Skills:

• Solution architecture for Node.js and Angular applications
• Azure PaaS and cloud-native design
• Distributed systems and microservices
• CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Strong leadership and collaboration abilities