Senior SaaS / Cloud Platform Architect

Location: Stockholm, Sweden Contract: Initial 6 months Experience: 7+ years Language: Swedish preferred, but not essential About the Role We are looking for an experienced Senior SaaS / Cloud Platform Architect to help design and build the architectural foundation of a next-generation enterprise SaaS platform. This is an opportunity to take ownership of a major architectural initiative, designing a scalable, secure and highly available cloud platform that connects multiple products, services and distributed infrastructure. You will play a key role in defining the technical direction, making architectural decisions and working closely with engineering and product teams to bring the platform to life. Key Responsibilities

• Define and develop the overall SaaS platform architecture and technical roadmap.
• Design scalable, secure, multi-tenant enterprise SaaS solutions.
• Architect distributed systems with resilient edge-cloud connectivity and offline capabilities.
• Design highly available cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes, microservices and containerisation.
• Develop architectural approaches for licensing, subscription management and entitlement systems.
• Establish API standards, event-driven architectures and workflow orchestration capabilities.
• Ensure enterprise-grade security, observability, governance and system integrations.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to deliver the platform incrementally.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of relevant experience in software architecture, cloud platforms or enterprise SaaS development.
• Proven experience designing and delivering complex B2B SaaS platforms.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, cloud architecture and microservices.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerisation, CI/CD and cloud infrastructure.
• Understanding of event-driven architecture, APIs and system integrations.
• Experience designing highly available, resilient and scalable systems.
• Ability to take ownership of architectural decisions and influence technical direction.
• Strong communication skills and experience working across technical and product teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience building SaaS platforms from the ground up.
• Knowledge of licensing and entitlement management systems.
• Experience with hybrid cloud, private cloud or on-premise infrastructure.
• Background in telecommunications, media technology or real-time systems.