Lead Architect - Service & Cloud

About us HMH is a leading provider of drilling solutions, offering a wide range of products and services that are designed to be the safest and most efficient in the industry. Apart from our expertise in land and offshore operations, we are continuously expanding our knowledge within subsea mining, geothermal, onshore and offshore construction, as well as offshore wind industries. With offices in 16 countries across five continents, HMH maintains a strong global presence. HMH is a frontrunner in developing and providing automation and digital solutions for our drilling customers to support their endeavor to improve efficiency and environmental footprint. Equipped with its brilliant team of engineers, HMH is committed to actively exploring opportunities in other industries. For us, this means new opportunities and challenges that we need creativity and great minds to solve in our efforts to innovate our future. Do you want to join our team? At HMH we value our employees. We offer exciting job opportunities that will give you the opportunity to grow in your role and give you the professional development you deserve. In addition to competitive pay and benefits, you will join a casual and inclusive work environment. Our environment is based on respect and having a good day at work, so you can expect to join a knowledgeable, global team who help each other to succeed. We are looking for a Lead Architect to strengthen the technical direction, software architecture, and engineering quality of our SeaBridge platform. This is a senior, hands-on technical role for an experienced software engineer who can think at system level, provide technical direction across teams, and help turn complex requirements into secure, robust, and maintainable software solutions. Join us in our journey to solve tomorrow's challenges and innovate our future! What will you be doing in this role? As Lead Architect, you will work across development teams to bring clarity to technical decisions, strengthen engineering practices, and ensure that our solutions evolve with a coherent and sustainable architecture. You will operate at the intersection of software engineering, architecture, product, security and compliance, helping teams make sound technical decisions while reducing unnecessary complexity and fragmentation across the platform. We are looking for someone who is comfortable working close to the code and the engineers building our solutions. You will contribute hands-on when needed, participate in design and code discussions, and use your software engineering experience to provide practical technical guidance. The role does not include formal personnel responsibility. In this role, you will:

• Drive consistent architecture and design decisions and reduce unnecessary system fragmentation
• Contribute hands-on to software design and development and stay close to the code and real system challenges
• Strengthen engineering practices across code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, maintainability and operational readiness
• Ensure security-by-design is reflected in both architecture and implementation
• Help teams make pragmatic technical trade-offs between delivery needs, quality, security and long-term maintainability
• Identify and help address technical debt before it becomes a barrier to product development
• Act as a technical bridge between development, product, security, infrastructure and compliance

Who are we looking for? We are looking for a strong and experienced software engineer who has grown into broader architectural responsibilities. You should be equally comfortable discussing the overall architecture of a distributed system and working with engineers on how that architecture translates into APIs, services, interfaces, code and deployment patterns. You do not need to know everything yourself. What matters is your ability to understand complex technical problems, ask the right questions, make sound engineering judgments and help others arrive at good solutions. We believe it is essential that you have:

• Strong hands-on software development experience
• Experience designing and developing production software, APIs and distributed systems
• Experience making or influencing software architecture and system-level design decisions
• A good understanding of software quality, automated testing and maintainable design
• Experience with CI/CD and modern software development and DevOps practices
• The ability to simplify complex technical challenges and communicate them clearly
• Professional fluency in English, both written and spoken

It would also be valuable if you have experience with several of the following:

• Cloud-based software architecture, preferably using Microsoft Azure
• Microservices and event-driven or distributed architectures
• Identity, authentication, authorization, encryption and data protection
• Secure development and security-by-design
• Edge-to-cloud or hybrid architecture
• Regulated or compliance-driven software environments
• Industrial cybersecurity and standards such as IEC 62443 or relevant NIST frameworks
• Industrial, energy, maritime, offshore or OT environments

We focus on relevant skills and experiences rather than years of experience or whether you hold a bachelor's degree or master’s degree. What can you expect in return? Besides the typical things, such as flexible working hours, pension and insurance, subsidized and varied lunch menu, free parking, and a great company culture, we can also offer you:

• A diverse and inclusive work environment where people are genuinely helpful, and where you are encouraged to develop your skills and share your knowledge
• The opportunity to have meaningful influence on how we architect and build our future digital solutions
• Challenging engineering problems spanning software, cloud, edge, cybersecurity and industrial environments
• A positive attitude towards your career development in a company who values internal mobility and continuous development
• A strong and including engineering environment with skilled and helpful colleagues across disciplines
• Good support and appreciation of suggestions and initiatives

Workplace: Kristiansand, Norway Contact information and how to apply: If you feel your experience qualifies you for this challenge, please apply online by 1st December 2026 and let us know how your experiences, skills, professional interests and education makes you a great fit for this role. Please also address your motivation to move to Kristiansand in your application, if you do not already reside near our office. Application can be sent in either Norwegian or in English. At HMH we aim to include a diverse workforce. We are an equal opportunity employer, certified by Likestilt Arbeidsliv, and encourage all qualified applicants to apply. For further information regarding the position please contact Frode Jensen, phone number +47 480 29 450 / Frode.Jensen2@hmhw.com