Platform Architect
iKnowHow Group is a dynamic, international technology company with 24+ years of experience and a team of 300+ talented professionals delivering innovative technology solutions across Energy, Telecommunications, Banking & Financial Services, and the Public Sector.
Through its specialized subsidiaries, it brings domain expertise in areas such as Health and Robotics—blending deep industry knowledge with advanced, future-ready technologies.
At its core, iKnowHow S.A. delivers end-to-end project development - both internal and client-facing - turning strategy into scalable, real-world solutions. Our portfolio spans Data & AI platforms, enterprise integration, cloud-native applications, and large-scale digital transformation initiatives, enabling leading organizations across the public and private sectors to evolve and grow.
We are now looking for a talented Platform Architect to work in new challenging outsourced projects.
Responsibilities
- Own the target-state technical vision for the platform and the orchestration layer
- Define architecture, integration, and data-flow standards across the project
- Set standards for cross-cutting concerns — logging, security, access control
- Oversee the containerization and deployment strategy
- Provide technical guidance across the full project lifecycle, from design through production rollout
- Produce and maintain architecture governance artefacts
- Work closely with distributed development teams to ensure architectural consistency and alignment
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- At least 4 years of hands-on Java and Spring experience, including designing and building complex, cloud-native applications
- Experience defining technical architecture and providing technical direction to a development team
- Comfortable with IDE tooling (VSCode or similar) against a central git repository
- Experience in Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)
- Experience in JPA, JDBC, and Containers (Docker or similar)
- Ability to produce and own architecture governance artefacts and standards
- Experience working with distributed teams
- Full professional English communication
Nice to have:
- Former experience defining technical architecture and providing technical direction to a development team
- Reactive application design
- Experience in a devops-automated environment
- Kubernetes or OpenShift
- Cloud platforms (Azure or AWS)
- Kafka, Redis, RDBMS, or rule engines (e.g. Drools)
- Asynchronous messaging / long-running workflow patterns
- Application security concepts, Entra ID, JWT
- An attractive salary package
- Private health insurance plan
- Career development and growth opportunities
- Continuous training via personalized seminars
- An amazing private & open-office workspace in Athens #LI_Hybrid
- Stable and enjoyable working environment
