Head of Architecture

PIN-UP Global is an international holding specializing in the development and implementation of advanced technologies, B2B solutions and innovative products for the iGaming industry. We provide certification and licensing of our products, providing customers and partners of the holding with high-quality and reliable solutions.

We are looking for a Head of Architecture to join our team!

Requirements:

- 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in a lead/architect role.
- Proven experience designing high-scale distributed systems, ideally in real-time, transactional, or gaming systems.
- Strong knowledge of cloud-native architecture AWS.
- Expertise in microservices, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), API gateways, and database architectures (SQL/NoSQL).
- Solid understanding of iGaming platform needs, including payment integration, session handling, game engines, and player data models.
- Experience with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.

Responsibilities:

- Formulate, establish, support, and continuously develop the company’s architectural strategy to align with our business objectives and industry standards. Ensure architectural consistency and integration across all product teams. Define architectural principles, patterns, and guardrails.
- Define, distribute, and maintain the high-level architecture of the company’s platforms, products, services, and infrastructure to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance. Define metrics and evaluate the performance of the architecture department and tech teams, inform stakeholders of the results and drive continuous improvement.
- Promote best practices in scalability, high availability and real-time processing. Optimize for performance under high load, real-time transactions, and player concurrency. Define and own the overall system architecture and technology roadmap.
- Work with product and engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical designs. Conduct architecture reviews and technical design approvals.
- Partner with DevOps and SRE teams to define cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability standards.Ensure support for multi-tenancy and compliance requirements. Ensure compliance with security, data privacy, and regulatory standards.
- Mentor senior engineers and act as a technical leader across the organization. Lead and supervise Architects and tech teams, collaborate with responsible Leads to form, develop, and regulate their activities.

Soft Skills:

- Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage and inspire teams.
- Strong communication skills and experience working with cross-functional, multicultural teams.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to align architectural initiatives with business goals.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make data-driven decisions.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

Our benefits to you:

☘️An exciting and challenging job in a fast-growing product holding, the opportunity to be part of a multicultural team of top professionals in Development, Architecture, Management, Operations, Marketing, Legal, Finance and other
🤝🏻Great working atmosphere with passionate experts and leaders, sharing a friendly culture and a success-driven mindset is guaranteed🧑🏻‍💻Modern corporate equipment based on macOS or Windows and additional equipment are provided
🏖Paid vacations, sick leave, personal events days, days off
💵Referral program — enjoy cooperation with your colleagues and get the bonus
📚Educational programs: regular internal training, compensation for external education, attendance of specialized global conferences
🎯Rewards program for mentoring and coaching colleagues
🗣Free internal English courses
🦄Multiple internal activities: online platform for employees with quests, gamification and presents for collecting bonuses, PIN-UP team clubs for movie / book / pets lovers, etc
🎳Other benefits could be added based on your location

PIN-UP Global is an international holding specializing in the development and implementation of advanced technologies, B2B solutions and innovative products for the iGaming industry. We provide certification and licensing of our products, providing customers and partners of the holding with high-quality and reliable solutions. Our holding is represented Cyprus, Poland, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Peru, Malta. The headquarters of the holding is located in Cyprus. The CEO and owner of PIN-UP Global is Marina Ilina. Our values ​​reflect our way of living and interacting with employees, partners and customers:
🔸Be the first to lead. We are constantly moving forward and setting trends. We offer the best solutions for clients and employees thanks to our drive, commitment, and courage to implement ideas and propose changes.
🔸Be an expert in your domain. We offer a quality product due to the expertise of our team. Our professionalism is based on constant development along with the ecosystem, depth of understanding of the field in which we work, and competence in our functional area.
🔸Be a partner in teamwork. Synergy is an important component of our built-on trust interaction. We learn from each other and keep agreements. We achieve a common result thanks to everyone’s contribution, mutual support, and the ability to negotiate.
🔸Be focused on the result. We are focused on personal, corporate, and client results. All ecosystem participants achieve our goals thanks to the high speed of work, perseverance, and determination. We are working to improve the qualitative and quantitative result indicators.
🔸Be open and honest in communication. We are open in our communication with clients and employees. We give constructive feedback. Straightforwardness and honesty in communication are crucial for us. We create transparent and simple policies and processes.