Senior NFR Architect (Madrid, M, ES) chez Swiss Re Group | Swiss Re
Swiss Re Group | Swiss Re · Madrid, Espagne · Hybrid
- Senior
- Bureau à Madrid
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 an NFR 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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