The Role
Own solution architecture for bids and delivery projects, including target architecture, integrations, non-functional requirements, estimates, risks, and technical RFP responses. Lead architecture decisions, reviews, code and quality gates; design cloud, on-premises, and legacy integrations; assess appropriate AI use; and present architectures to business, procurement, and technical stakeholders. Requires enterprise architecture experience, software engineering credibility, cloud and Kubernetes expertise, integration patterns, security fundamentals, and delivery discipline.
Summary Generated by Built In
Emergn is a technology and management consultancy with a mission to set our clients free. No dependency. No short-term fix. Just teaching them the real cure to their problems, so they can stay ahead of their competitors now and forever.
A different kind of consultancy like this needs a different kind of team. One you might be just the right fit for.
This is a place for people who want to:
– Make a real difference. Here, you solve problems for real. No endless engagements or running up the clock. You get to see how change really works for some of the world’s greatest businesses.
– Never stop growing. We turn our expertise back on ourselves. Here, you’re always learning, stretching your thinking at the cutting edge of how organizations grow, which means staying at the cutting edge of your own growth too.
– Belong everywhere. We’re a global community of experts who work without borders. Friendly, supportive, and genuinely collaborative. Because when you’re trying to change an industry, you need people who have each other’s backs.
A different kind of consultancy like this needs a different kind of team. One you might be just the right fit for.
This is a place for people who want to:
– Make a real difference. Here, you solve problems for real. No endless engagements or running up the clock. You get to see how change really works for some of the world’s greatest businesses.
– Never stop growing. We turn our expertise back on ourselves. Here, you’re always learning, stretching your thinking at the cutting edge of how organizations grow, which means staying at the cutting edge of your own growth too.
– Belong everywhere. We’re a global community of experts who work without borders. Friendly, supportive, and genuinely collaborative. Because when you’re trying to change an industry, you need people who have each other’s backs.
As a Senior Solution Architect at Emergn, you will design scalable architectures, optimise system flows, and ensure technical quality that enables reliable and efficient delivery of product value early and often.
Join our team and let’s change the game together!
We want you to:
- Own the solution architecture for bids and delivery projects: scope, target architecture, integration design, non-functional requirements, effort and cost estimates, risks.
- Write and defend the technical part of RFI/RFP responses in Latvian.
- Act as technical lead for delivery teams: design decisions, architecture reviews, code and quality gates.
- Design integrations across cloud, on-premises, and legacy systems, including state registries and shared platforms.
- Assess where AI is the right solution component and where it is not, and design accordingly.
- Present and justify architecture to client business owners, procurement committees, and technical staff.
This job might be for you if you have:
- 5+ years in solution or software architecture, including at least two enterprise-scale systems taken from design to production.
- Strong software engineering background and hands-on credibility with development teams.
- One major cloud platform in depth (Azure, AWS or GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- System and API integration: patterns, messaging, event-driven design, data exchange, backward compatibility.
- Security and identity architecture fundamentals: authentication and authorisation, secrets, network segmentation, data classification.
- Non-functional design: performance, availability, scalability, cost, operability.
- Estimation and delivery discipline: you can size work, commit to it, and hold a team to quality.
Nice to Have:
- Public sector experience in Latvia or the EU: procurement, interoperability requirements, accessibility (WCAG), NIS2.
- Data platform and analytics architecture.
- Architecture documentation and modelling practice (C4, ArchiMate, ADRs).
- Legacy modernisation and phased migration programmes.
- Certifications in your primary cloud platform or TOGAF-level architecture practice.
What we offer:
- Salary 4000 – 6000 EUR gross/month
- Work within a dynamic international team of experts.
- Excellent opportunity for personal and professional development.
- Flexible work model and the freedom to choose the tools that suit you best – Mac or Windows.
- Ability to work with modern technologies.
- Extensive catalogue of educational programs, the possibility of training and certification at the expense of the company.
- 20 working days of vacation per year.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Health insurance.
- Big free parking.
- Birthday gift.
About
We're Emergn. A technology and management consultancy that believes sustainable competitive advantage doesn’t come from the latest tech or hottest trend - it comes from the way you work. That’s why our goal is to embed a complete work operating system within our customers’ businesses, so they stop reacting to change and start creating it. We do this across three areas: shaping processes to be faster, clearer, and more innovative; developing people so inspiration comes from within the organization; and designing technology solutions that bring it all together. The result? Companies don’t just get ahead for a moment. They stay ahead for an era. And make it theirs.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in solution or software architecture
- Experience taking at least two enterprise-scale systems from design to production
- Strong software engineering background and hands-on credibility with development teams
- In-depth experience with one major cloud platform: Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Experience with container orchestration, specifically Kubernetes
- Knowledge of system and API integration patterns, messaging, event-driven design, data exchange, and backward compatibility
- Security and identity architecture fundamentals, including authentication, authorization, secrets, network segmentation, and data classification
- Non-functional design experience covering performance, availability, scalability, cost, and operability
- Estimation and delivery discipline, including sizing work and enforcing quality
- Public sector experience in Latvia or the EU
- Data platform and analytics architecture experience
- Architecture documentation and modeling practice using C4, ArchiMate, or ADRs
- Legacy modernization and phased migration program experience
- Certifications in a primary cloud platform or TOGAF-level architecture practice
- Ability to write technical RFI/RFP responses in Latvian
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The Company
What We Do
Emergn is a global technology and management consultancy and digital business services firm on a mission to improve how people and companies work. It helps businesses build lasting competitive advantage by changing operating practices, moving from project- to product-centered organizations, and improving how they shape, build, and deliver products and services. Its work spans consulting, technology, and capability development, including leadership, agility, and product management.
