Business Architect (Temporary Contract)

Job Description

About You

You are a Business Architect with a strong technical background who enjoys solving complex engineering challenges and improving existing systems. You thrive in fast-paced environments where troubleshooting, architecture reviews, and technical leadership are essential to project success.

You are comfortable working directly with development teams, identifying root causes, removing technical blockers, and establishing engineering best practices that improve software quality, maintainability, and scalability.

You bring a hands-on mindset and enjoy mentoring engineers, strengthening delivery processes, and helping teams accelerate execution through practical and sustainable solutions.

Note: This position is offered under a contractor model for a period of 2 months.

You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field is desired, or equivalent professional experience.
• 4+ years of experience working as a Business Architect, Software Architect, Technical Architect, Technical Lead, or similar roles.
• Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices architecture.
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving complex Production and UAT issues.
• Strong knowledge of Azure services, including AKS, App Service, Application Gateway, and Storage Accounts.
• Experience with Docker and containerized applications.
• Ability to perform code reviews, identify technical debt, and recommend architectural improvements.
• Experience mentoring development teams and promoting engineering best practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced English proficiency (B2+/C1).

You Will Be Accountable for the Following Responsibilities:

• Support the team in analyzing and resolving UAT defects.
• Identify root causes and drive sustainable solutions.
• Review the current architecture and implementation to improve maintainability, scalability, and quality.
• Provide technical guidance and coaching to the development team.
• Establish and reinforce best practices for coding, testing, deployments, and troubleshooting.
• Help accelerate delivery by removing technical blockers and improving team effectiveness.
• Collaborate with technical stakeholders to strengthen engineering quality and delivery outcomes.
• Promote sustainable engineering practices that improve long-term maintainability.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Architecture, Technical Leadership, or Backend Engineering roles.
• Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices.
• Experience troubleshooting Production and UAT environments.
• Strong Azure experience (AKS, App Service, Application Gateway, Storage Accounts).
• Experience with Docker and technical mentoring.
• Advanced English proficiency.

Additional Information

About Us

We Are Engineered Different.

At Applaudo, talented people design, build, and scale meaningful, AI-powered solutions that create real business impact. As an AI-native organization, we collaborate across design, development, cloud, data, and artificial intelligence to turn ideas into scalable products that transform how companies operate, make decisions, and grow.

We are building a high-performance culture grounded in five values: Empowering Excellence, Collaborative Teamwork, Unsolicited Respect, Consistent Transparency, and Efficient Communication. These define how we work, how we support one another, and how we hold ourselves accountable.

Applaudo is a place for people who want to learn fast, take ownership, and work alongside strong teams they are proud to belong to. Joining us means being part of an organization that is evolving intentionally, investing in modern ways of working, and leading AI-native transformation at scale.