20 Intern Architect jobs in Oman

We are supporting a major commercial organisation in their search for a highly skilled and strategically driven Demands Solution Architecture Proficient to join the Digital and Applications division. This is a full-time role ideal for candidates with a strong background in enterprise architecture, innovative solution design, and advanced IT strategy development.

The successful candidate will lead the development and implementation of cutting-edge architectural solutions that align with evolving business demands and long-term strategic objectives. Working within a digitally focused unit, you will collaborate with business and technology leaders to ensure architectural integrity, cost optimisation, and innovation across platforms. This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape and influence enterprise-wide architecture frameworks in a dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement sophisticated solution architecture strategies aligned with enterprise goals.
• Ensure compliance with internal architecture standards, governance frameworks, and best practices.
• Optimise technology investments while delivering scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of complex business requirements to translate them into actionable architectural designs.
• Develop and maintain architecture roadmaps, integration frameworks, and performance optimisation strategies.
• Lead initiatives for architecture knowledge transfer and the establishment of quality standards across the organisation.
• Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies, driving innovation in architectural practices.
• Provide expert technical guidance on architectural decisions and risk management strategies.
• Engage with business stakeholders and technology vendors to ensure alignment and value delivery.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Information Technology, Computer Science, or Engineering).
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in enterprise architecture and digital solution design.
• Proven expertise in enterprise architecture management, IT planning, and strategic digital transformation.
• Strong skills in integration architecture, security frameworks, risk mitigation, and performance optimisation.
• Experience working with complex technology landscapes and cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and innovation skills, with advanced capabilities in architecture governance and documentation.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to act as a trusted advisor.
• Familiarity with architecture tools and frameworks; certifications (e.g., TOGAF) are advantageous.

This is a high-impact role for individuals passionate about digital innovation, architecture leadership, and delivering long-term value through strategic technology investments.

Globally revered Design consultancy have a major project in Muscat Oman and are inviting Architects to join their Site Operation for October start.

• Senior Site Architect is required to lead the site based team and to ensure the project is on track, maintaining high stand of design intent this firm is renowned for but also within budget and time deadlines.
• Responsibilities will include overseeing a small design documentation team, site engineers and relaying information to Head office in Dubai.
• Managing contractor relationship to a high professional standard and responsibility for maintaining project financials are according to HQ's objective.

• This individual will have around 20 years experience post graduation of a Degree in Architecture and have delivered projects from Site in the Middle East, ideally recently within the last 5 years.
• This person would have worked on delivering largescale High End Hotel developments and Ideally worked in Oman previously. Highly advantageous if this person is currently based in Oman right now.
• Strong sense of design appreciation, teamed with expert construction knowledge, GCC/Oman regulations and building codes, excellent communication skills to manage teams and deal with client and main contractor are all required for this role.

Robinson Faris Jones - Human Resources (RFJ-HR), is a new bespoke HR and Resourcing Consultancy tailored to giving individuals and companies alike a premier and personal service.

Consisting only of Director level personnel, each with over 7 years experience of working within the Gulf Region, we aim to alleviate all the issues and frustrations traditionally associated with using a Resourcing or external HR service. Each client and candidate is hand picked and dealt with by a Director personally thus ensuring that all parties get the level of service they expect.

The industries we specialise in are as follows:

• Property & Facilities Management
• Construction
• Engineering
• Architecture
• Civil & Structural
• Sales & Marketing
• Business Support
• Human Resources

Aligned with this we also offer a comprehensive range of Training and Development courses in a variety of disciplines. Our Trainers are all professionally qualified in their chosen fields and are available on a short or longer term interim period. Our HR Consultancy service offers industry accredited CIPD & SHRM training for HR professionals with coaching and mentoring for individuals wishing to gain qualifications from these bodies.

Job Purpose:

The platform architect proactively and holistically leads and supports EA activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects and products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.

They understand the concepts of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value-streams and business processes and their importance in solution architecture. The solutions architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards.

They create deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of "to be" and "as is" solutions — including systems (applications, processes, information and technology), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.

Main Tasks & Accountabilities:

• The Solutions Architect will demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions.

1- Interpret Business Needs

• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product life cycle.
• Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.

2- Assess Technology

• Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
• Monitors micro- and macroscopic trends in EA as well as global currents, including economic, political, social/cultural, environmental, regulatory/legal and/or technological disruptions for effective decision-making.
• Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services or systems, including applications, technologies, processes and information.
• Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models (stretch).
• Analyse the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determines their potential implications for a given solution (stretch).
• Analyse the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and also recommends solutions for improvement (stretch).
• Facilitates the evaluation, selection and TCO of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
• Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solutions architecture.

3- Apply Technology

• Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
• Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products, working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a single project or product or initiative (stretch).
• Develops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise solution portfolio from current to future state, as defined by the solutions architecture (stretch).
• Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.
• Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects and systems, including applications, technologies, processes and information (stretch).
• Works closely with the program management office (PMO) or project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product life cycle.
• Provides consulting support to application architects within agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.

4- Provide Enterprise Guidance

• Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate (note: The level of detail and complexity in deliverables would vary depending on a solutions architect’s level of responsibility in the organization chart).
• Supports a community of practice (CoP), guiding and helping agile teams, product owners to align with the overall enterprise architecture governance and assurance.
• Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance (stretch ).
• Defines the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.

Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience.

Work Experience:

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms and processing environments.
• Experience working in a relevant industry is helpful, but not required.
• Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies and roadmaps.
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Knowledge of various backend development languages like Java, Go and Python.
• Good understanding of various database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB and Oracle .
• Sound knowledge of relevant enterprise, cloud or customer relationship management (CRM) systems.
• Knowledge of various artificial intelligence/machine learning frameworks (AI/ML)
• Data savvy with knowledge of various aspects of a technology architecture like integration, network and security.
• Good understanding of information principles and processes
• Knowledge of financial models and budgeting (mention relevant skills for calculating TCO, applying Finops principles.
• Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize and DevOps).
• Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and information technology infrastructure library (ITIL).
• Hands-on experience in different modeling languages (such as UML and ArchiMate)
• Understanding of IT standards and controls.
• Industry experience in applying application development methodologies and infrastructure and network architecture.
• Proven analytical, planning, organizational and technical and skills
• Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models.
• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt.

• Architect and implement Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud solutions across security and observability domains.
• Lead turnkey Splunk deployments, including architecture design, indexing strategy, data onboarding, and visualization.
• Develop and optimize correlation searches, dashboards, reports, and alerts across IT and security use cases.
• Design data ingestion pipelines from various sources: Syslog, APIs, cloud logs, firewalls, applications, etc.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across cybersecurity, IT operations, DevOps, and compliance teams.
• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable and efficient Splunk architectures.
• Deliver high-quality technical documentation, architecture diagrams, SOPs, and handover materials.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior Splunk engineers and administrators.
• Work with SOC/NOC teams to integrate Splunk with SOAR tools, threat intel feeds, and MITRE ATT&CK.
• Assist with capacity planning, license optimization, and upgrade/migration planning.
  
  
  

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on Splunk experience, with 2+ years in an architect-level role
• Proven success in turnkey Splunk implementations from planning to go-live
• Expertise in both Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) and ITSI/Observability
• Strong knowledge of search processing language (SPL) and KV store optimizations
• Familiarity with cloud integrations (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid log ingestion
• Solid understanding of data modeling, CIM compliance, and security data normalization
• Experience integrating with SIEM, SOAR, CMDB, and threat intelligence platforms
• Strong documentation skills using Confluence, Markdown, or Visio
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; capable of presenting to business and tech audiences
  
  
  

• Splunk Certifications (Architect, Power User, Admin, ES Implementation)
• Familiarity with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, ISO 27001, and ITIL
• Experience working with Middle Eastern clients or in multicultural teams
  

As a Systems Integration Architect, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and managing the overall integration strategy of our observability platform. You will work closely with cross-functional teams—including engineering, data science, AI/ML, and telecom integration—to develop robust interfaces and middleware that connect disparate systems such as core network elements, OSS, and network management systems. Your expertise will be critical in ensuring that all components of the platform operate together seamlessly, delivering real-time insights and robust performance.

• Integration Strategy & Architecture
  • Define and implement the overall systems integration architecture and strategy for the observability platform.
  • Design scalable, secure, and efficient integration solutions that enable real-time data flow between telecom systems, OSS, and internal platform components.
  • Evaluate and select appropriate middleware, API management solutions, and integration tools to ensure robust connectivity.
• System Design & Development
  • Develop and oversee the implementation of integration interfaces, data exchange protocols, and communication standards (e.g., RESTful APIs, messaging queues, or service buses).
  • Ensure that data from multiple sources is normalized, enriched, and delivered accurately to downstream systems, including AI/ML pipelines and dashboards.
  • Collaborate with telecom network integration engineers to align integration strategies with network protocols and industry standards.
• Collaboration & Technical Leadership
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams (software, data, AI/ML, telecom) to understand requirements and design integration solutions that meet business needs.
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance on integration best practices, driving continuous improvement and innovation.
  • Facilitate technical discussions and document integration architectures, data flow processes, and interface specifications.
• Performance, Security & Compliance
  • Ensure that integration solutions are optimized for performance, security, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
  • Collaborate with Security Engineers to integrate security best practices into integration protocols and data exchange mechanisms.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve integration issues, ensuring minimal downtime and high system reliability.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for integration architectures, processes, and interfaces to support ongoing maintenance and scalability.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to continuously improve integration solutions.
• Lead post-implementation reviews and recommend improvements based on performance metrics and user feedback.
• Experience:
  • 8–12+ years of professional experience in systems integration, enterprise architecture, or similar roles.
  • Proven track record in designing and implementing large-scale integration solutions in data-intensive, real-time environments, preferably within telecom, enterprise software, or AI-driven platforms.
• Technical Skills:
  • Deep knowledge of integration frameworks, middleware, and API management platforms.
  • Proficiency in programming and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Java, or similar) used for developing integration solutions.
  • Experience with RESTful API design, messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), and service-oriented architectures.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong understanding of security, compliance, and data governance principles as they apply to system integrations.
• Leadership & Soft Skills:
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex integration projects.
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Detail-oriented and proactive in identifying opportunities for process improvement.
• Education:
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field. An advanced degree (MS or Ph.D.) is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on AI-driven observability platforms or telecom network systems.
• Prior exposure to integrating systems within regulated industries.
• Relevant certifications in enterprise architecture, cloud platforms, or integration technologies.

• Competitive Compensation & Equity – We recognize your value with a highly competitive salary and a meaningful equity package.
• Comprehensive Health Coverage – Enjoy top-tier medical insurance to keep you and your loved ones covered.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance – Choose where and how you work with hybrid and remote-friendly options.
• Career Growth & Learning – Access to advanced training, mentorship programs, and global industry conferences to accelerate your professional development.
• Impact-Driven Culture – Join an innovative, fast-paced team where your expertise directly influences the future of AI-driven telecom network management.

• Shape the future of digital ecosystems: Be part of a team that's redefining digital ecosystems management to make it intelligent, adaptive, and capable of supporting future demands.
• Innovate for impact: Work on cutting-edge technologies like AI, IoT, and data analytics to address real-world challenges in infrastructure.
• Empower smart cities: Contribute to building the foundation for cognitive cities - urban environments that are resilient, efficient, and adaptable.
• Grow with us: Join a dynamic, mission-driven team that values collaboration, innovation, and growth. We are committed to creating a workplace where you can thrive, learn, and make a meaningful impact.

Globally revered Design consultancy have a major project in Muscat Oman and are inviting Architects to join their Site Operation for October start.

• Senior Site Architect is required to lead the site based team and to ensure the project is on track, maintaining high stand of design intent this firm is renowned for but also within budget and time deadlines.
• Responsibilities will include overseeing a small design documentation team, site engineers and relaying information to Head office in Dubai.
• Managing contractor relationship to a high professional standard and responsibility for maintaining project financials are according to HQ's objective.

• This individual will have around 20 years experience post graduation of a Degree in Architecture and have delivered projects from Site in the Middle East, ideally recently within the last 5 years.
• This person would have worked on delivering largescale High End Hotel developments and Ideally worked in Oman previously. Highly advantageous if this person is currently based in Oman right now.
• Strong sense of design appreciation, teamed with expert construction knowledge, GCC/Oman regulations and building codes, excellent communication skills to manage teams and deal with client and main contractor are all required for this role.

Robinson Faris Jones - Human Resources (RFJ-HR), is a new bespoke HR and Resourcing Consultancy tailored to giving individuals and companies alike a premier and personal service.

Consisting only of Director level personnel, each with over 7 years experience of working within the Gulf Region, we aim to alleviate all the issues and frustrations traditionally associated with using a Resourcing or external HR service. Each client and candidate is hand picked and dealt with by a Director personally thus ensuring that all parties get the level of service they expect.

The industries we specialise in are as follows:

• Property & Facilities Management
• Construction
• Engineering
• Architecture
• Civil & Structural
• Sales & Marketing
• Business Support
• Human Resources

Aligned with this we also offer a comprehensive range of Training and Development courses in a variety of disciplines. Our Trainers are all professionally qualified in their chosen fields and are available on a short or longer term interim period. Our HR Consultancy service offers industry accredited CIPD & SHRM training for HR professionals with coaching and mentoring for individuals wishing to gain qualifications from these bodies.

Job Purpose:

The platform architect proactively and holistically leads and supports EA activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects and products, systems (including applications, technologies, processes and information), shared infrastructure services and shared application services.

They understand the concepts of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value-streams and business processes and their importance in solution architecture. The solutions architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis and design tasks related to support the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards.

They create deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of "to be" and "as is" solutions - including systems (applications, processes, information and technology), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.

Main Tasks & Accountabilities:

• The Solutions Architect will demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions.

1- Interpret Business Needs

• Translates business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives and documents all solution architecture design and analysis work.
• Works closely with the product owners and product managers to ensure a robust architectural runway that can support future business requirements throughout the product life cycle.
• Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.

2- Assess Technology

• Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
• Monitors micro- and macroscopic trends in EA as well as global currents, including economic, political, social/cultural, environmental, regulatory/legal and/or technological disruptions for effective decision-making.
• Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services or systems, including applications, technologies, processes and information.
• Understands emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving business and operating models (stretch).
• Analyse the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determines their potential implications for a given solution (stretch).
• Analyse the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy and technical debt, and also recommends solutions for improvement (stretch).
• Facilitates the evaluation, selection and TCO of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
• Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify designs to accommodate the solutions architecture.

3- Apply Technology

• Leads evaluation, design and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value-streams, business requirements and enterprise standards.
• Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products, working closely with application architects that manage and design architecture for a single project or product or initiative (stretch).
• Develops a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise solution portfolio from current to future state, as defined by the solutions architecture (stretch).
• Acts as a consultant on a broad range of technologies, platforms and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.
• Creates architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects and systems, including applications, technologies, processes and information (stretch).
• Works closely with the program management office (PMO) or project management office to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised throughout the project or product life cycle.
• Provides consulting support to application architects within agile teams to ensure the project or product is aligned with the overall enterprise architecture.

4- Provide Enterprise Guidance

• Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on the business and IT estate (note: The level of detail and complexity in deliverables would vary depending on a solutions architect's level of responsibility in the organization chart).
• Supports a community of practice (CoP), guiding and helping agile teams, product owners to align with the overall enterprise architecture governance and assurance.
• Designs and directs the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance (stretch ).
• Defines the principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.

Qualifications:

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, information-technology, engineering, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience.

Work Experience:

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development.
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms and processing environments.
• Experience working in a relevant industry is helpful, but not required.
• Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies and roadmaps.
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Knowledge of various backend development languages like Java, Go and Python.
• Good understanding of various database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB and Oracle .
• Sound knowledge of relevant enterprise, cloud or customer relationship management (CRM) systems.
• Knowledge of various artificial intelligence/machine learning frameworks (AI/ML)
• Data savvy with knowledge of various aspects of a technology architecture like integration, network and security.
• Good understanding of information principles and processes
• Knowledge of financial models and budgeting (mention relevant skills for calculating TCO, applying Finops principles.
• Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize and DevOps).
• Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and information technology infrastructure library (ITIL).
• Hands-on experience in different modeling languages (such as UML and ArchiMate)
• Understanding of IT standards and controls.
• Industry experience in applying application development methodologies and infrastructure and network architecture.
• Proven analytical, planning, organizational and technical and skills
• Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models.
• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt.

Overview

Software Architect - Containers / Virtualisation at Canonical. We are hiring a software architect for Canonical LXD and MicroCloud. Our goal is to make clusters of compute, with system containers or virtual machines, "just work". This is a challenging exercise in distributed systems, virtualisation, container technology, networking and storage. LXD is a modern Golang system container and virtual machine orchestrator widely used on Ubuntu, ChromeOS and other Linux platforms. LXD engineering spans the entire software stack from low-level kernel work on namespaces, confinement, security, filesystems, VMMs and networking, to the high level management REST API and CLI.

Location: This is a home-based position available in EMEA and the Americas.

Canonically, this role focuses on driving architecture, design and evolution of LXD, and Canonical MicroCloud which combines LXD with Ceph and OVN to create a lean, easy to use and resilient cluster-scale cloud infrastructure.

• Leadership of the LXD and MicroCloud architecture
• Mentor, develop and advise colleagues in their career progression
• Develop in Golang and C
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Ensure the product is secure and performant
• Display technical leadership in Canonical and our communities
• Work from home with global travel twice annually for company events

• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM
• Drive, and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
• Technical leadership as well as team motivation, direction and pace
• Well-organized, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
• Professional manner in interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
• Experience with Go and C
• Experience with storage, networking and virtualization
• Experience with container technologies
• Experience with concurrent, distributed systems
• Conscientiousness and detail orientation, with a focus on performance
• Professional written and spoken English
• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

As the Tech Lead / Software Architect, you will be responsible for defining and driving the overall technical vision, architecture, and development strategy for our cutting-edge observability platform. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams—including Product Management, UX/UI, Data Engineering, AI/ML, and Operations—to design scalable, secure, and high-performance systems that integrate complex telecom data streams and AI-driven features. Your leadership will ensure technical excellence, promote best practices, and guide the engineering team in delivering a robust, next-generation product.

• Technical Vision & Architecture
  • Define and articulate the platform’s technical vision and roadmap in alignment with business goals and stakeholder requirements.
  • Design a scalable, modular, and secure system architecture that supports real-time data ingestion, processing, and AI/ML integration.
  • Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools to ensure high performance and maintainability.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire a cross-functional engineering team, ensuring adherence to best practices, coding standards, and agile methodologies.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Data Engineers, AI/ML teams, and UX/UI Designers to translate requirements into innovative technical solutions.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence through regular code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing.
• System Integration & Scalability
  • Oversee the integration of multiple data sources, including telecom network elements, OSS, and network management systems, into a unified platform.
  • Ensure seamless integration of AI-driven features (e.g., natural language processing, automated reporting, anomaly detection) with the core system.
  • Architect solutions that are scalable, fault-tolerant, and optimized for performance in a data-intensive, real-time environment.
• Security & Compliance
  • Collaborate with Security Engineers to integrate security best practices into the design and development lifecycle.
  • Ensure that the platform complies with industry standards and regulatory requirements regarding data privacy and security.
• Participate in strategic planning, sprint planning, and technical reviews to drive successful project execution.
• Identify risks, resolve complex technical challenges, and proactively recommend solutions to improve system performance and reliability.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of architectural designs, technical decisions, and system configurations.
• Experience:
  • 8–12+ years of professional experience in software development, with significant experience in system architecture and technical leadership roles.
  • Proven track record in designing and delivering scalable, high-performance, data-intensive applications or platforms, preferably in telecom, enterprise software, or AI-driven environments.
• Technical Skills:
  • Deep expertise in designing microservices architectures, distributed systems, and real-time data processing pipelines.
  • Proficiency in multiple programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Node.js) and familiarity with modern frameworks and tools.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong understanding of API design, integration strategies, security best practices, and performance optimization.
  • Prior exposure to AI/ML integrations and working with generative AI or LLM technologies is a plus.
• Leadership & Soft Skills:
  • Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and manage technical teams in an agile, fast-paced environment.
  • Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Proven experience in stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.
• Education:
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. An advanced degree (MS or Ph.D.) is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on AI-driven products or observability platforms.
• Familiarity with telecom network systems and real-time data analytics.
• Relevant certifications in cloud architecture, security, or agile methodologies.

• Competitive Compensation & Equity – We recognize your value with a highly competitive salary and a meaningful equity package.
• Comprehensive Health Coverage – Enjoy top-tier medical insurance to keep you and your loved ones covered.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance – Choose where and how you work with hybrid and remote-friendly options.
• Career Growth & Learning – Access to advanced training, mentorship programs, and global industry conferences to accelerate your professional development.
• Impact-Driven Culture – Join an innovative, fast-paced team where your expertise directly influences the future of AI-driven telecom network management.