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About the Team and our Scope
At L&H; Solutions, we build and commercialize cloud-native (Azure-based) SaaS/PaaS solutions for Swiss Re Life & Health insurance clients. We offer a portfolio of over six products, including established offerings like Magnum with over 60 active clients worldwide, and innovative products such as UW Ease. We are a SW house within Swiss Re.
Our team consists of more than 150 technical professionals with multidisciplinary skills, located in multiple countries, working on these multi-regional, highly available solutions.
About the Role
As a
Senior Platform Architect
you will define, design, and govern the implementation of Non-Functional Requirements across Swiss Re’s Life & Health digital ecosystem. You will collaborate with solution architects, engineering leads, and DevOps teams to translate enterprise standards into measurable system attributes such as
performance, resilience, observability, and security .
In addition to NFR governance, you will be responsible for
technology stewardship
— proactively identifying, planning, and executing
framework and library upgrades, security remediations, and platform migrations
to ensure systems remain modern, compliant, and secure.
Your responsibilities will be:
Define and maintain the
product-wide NFR framework, including principles, metrics, and design patterns for delivery teams.
Collaborate with
solution architects, product owners, and engineering leads
to capture, validate, and implement NFRs throughout the SDLC.
Conduct
architecture and performance reviews
to validate compliance with scalability, reliability, and resilience objectives.
Develop and maintain
reference architectures, reusable blueprints, and NFR patterns
that promote consistency across solutions.
Partner with
security, infrastructure, and SRE teams
to align architecture with enterprise policies and operational best practices.
Champion the integration of
automated performance, resilience, and security testing
into CI/CD pipelines.
Lead
framework and library lifecycle management, including:
Assessing and planning
upgrades, migrations, and deprecations
for technologies such as
Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Java SDKs, and related open-source components.
Coordinating




security patching and remediation
to address vulnerabilities (CVEs) in underlying frameworks and dependencies.
Collaborating with platform teams to ensure compatibility with evolving
Azure, containerization, and DevOps toolchains .
Support
technology evaluations and architecture decisions
to optimize for performance, cost, and operational efficiency.
Provide
technical leadership and mentoring
to engineering teams on NFR and architecture best practices.
Continuously track and evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and tools related to
SRE, observability, and cloud-native engineering .
Key NFR Domains
Performance & Scalability:
Define benchmarks, load models, and tuning guidelines.
Availability & Resilience:
Architect for fault tolerance, redundancy, and disaster recovery.
Security & Compliance:
Enforce secure coding practices, vulnerability management, and regulatory alignment.
Maintainability & Operability:
Define observability standards for logging, metrics, and alerting.
About You
We understand that no one meets 100% of the requirements — if you are passionate about building reliable, resilient systems and meet most of the below, we’d love to hear from you.
Required Skills & Experience
12+ years of experience in enterprise software engineering (preferably Java/J2EE ecosystem).
5+ years in architecture or technical leadership roles.
Strong expertise in
Java, Spring Boot, RESTful microservices, and related frameworks.
Proven experience with
Azure Cloud ,
Docker/Kubernetes, and
CI/CD automation .
Proficiency with
observability and performance tooling
(Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk).
Experience managing
framework and library upgrades, dependency security remediation, and platform migrations .
Working knowledge of
authentication/authorization
(Okta, Azure AD, OAuth2/OpenID Connect).
Strong understanding of
DevSecOps
and secure SDLC principles.
Familiarity with
architecture modeling tools
such as Enterprise Architect or Visio.
Nice to Have
Exposure to
Angular/React
for end-to-end solution context.
Experience defining NFR standards in regulated domains (insurance, finance, healthcare).
For Spain, the
base salary range




for this position is between (EUR 60,000) and (EUR 100,000) (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers:
the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role,
the applicant's own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience.
In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements. Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits.
Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.
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About Swiss Re
Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.
Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.
If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.
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📌 Senior Platform Architect - €60.000 - €100.000 A Year (Madrid)
🏢 Swiss Re
📍 Madrid