Overview

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As Chief Architect, you will own the end-to-end architectural vision, technical governance, and execution across the business. You’ll shape scalable, secure, and future-ready platform infrastructure. This is a highly hands-on role—you’ll work with product leads and engineering teams to align architecture with strategic goals and drive enterprise-wide technical excellence.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the architectural vision and roadmap, ensuring a scalable, maintainable, and high-performance technical foundation for development teams.
• Lead the evolution of platform architecture to enable modular deployments, robust APIs, and tools that empower engineering teams to deliver faster.
• Set and enforce coding standards, architectural guidelines, and design patterns for consistency and quality across the codebase.
• Collaborate with engineering managers, product owners, and technical leads to translate business needs into clear technical designs.
• Oversee integration architecture, ensuring smooth interoperability between internal services, third-party APIs, and external partners.
• Identify technical debt and guide modernization efforts, including stabilization, refactoring, and re-platforming.
• Drive the adoption of best practices in DevOps, CI/CD, testing, documentation, and observability across development squads.
• Support scaling the platform for regulated and unregulated markets, addressing compliance, latency, and performance needs.
• Mentor and coach senior engineers and technical leads, growing architectural thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Conduct architectural reviews and ensure designs are security-first, compliant, and resilient to failure.
• Lead evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies to improve developer productivity, platform scalability, and time-to-market.
• Partner with data engineering teams to support modern data pipelines, real-time analytics, and historical reporting.
• Establish frameworks for disaster recovery, failover, and business continuity to build fault-tolerant systems.
• Foster a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement within development teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Chief Architect, or Principal Engineer at an iGaming Slots Provider.
• Deep expertise in architectural design, cloud-native platforms, microservices, API strategy, data pipelines, and integrations.
• Strong track record of stewarding architectural strategy and governance in scalable environments.
• Excellent communicator—able to present complex technical concepts clearly to business stakeholders.
• Experience in building and mentoring architecture teams, fostering innovation, and engineering excellence.
• Passionate about shaping technical foundations that empower teams and products to thrive.

Tech Stack

• Backend: Java, Typescript, NodeJS, Python
• Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, CloudFront, Route53), Linux, Docker
• Databases: MongoDB
• Monitoring & CI/CD: Github, Jenkins, Terraform, CAdvisor, Prometheus, Grafana

Why You Will Love Working Here

• A remote-first culture built on trust, flexibility, and respect
• An ambitious, transparent leadership team that actually listens
• Plenty of autonomy and the opportunity to make a big, meaningful impact
• A product you can influence at the deepest level
• Competitive salary, holiday, and benefits (tailored depending on location)

Sounds interesting? Do not hesitate to apply or contact us if you have any questions! Gamingtec is waiting for you!

Job Details

• Seniority level: Executive
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
• Industries: Gambling Facilities and Casinos

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