Senior Cloud Architect

Groupama in Bulgaria is an Insurance company, part of Groupama Assurances Mutuelles (former Groupama S.A.):

• Ranking on the French market:

№ 1st – Individual health insurer and Agricultural insurer;

№ 2nd – Home insurer;

№ 4th – Motor insurer;

• 12 million members and customers
• 31,000 employees
• International presence: in 10 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa.

Locally, Groupama is a fast-growing insurance company, a champion in customer service. Our clients are at the heart of everything we do. Digitalization and human touch are key principles of our work.

In Bulgaria, Groupama is an exclusive partner of DSK Bank, under the signed long-term Agreement in the fields of payment protection insurance, property and motor insurance. Our team consists of professionals with desire for growth and commitment to achieve high results while delivering exceptional service to our clients.

For our IT department, we are looking for a supportive colleague who will join the dynamic team in charge of developing new Cloud solutions. If you want to help and support others and you are ready to join our adventure, then our advert might be just for you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and document a robust, scalable, and secure microservices-based architecture for a new financial platform leveraging the chosen cloud platform.
• Establish and govern the APIGEE platform, ensuring all APIs are managed, secured, and performant.
• Define the architecture for integrating various AI agents into the core system, ensuring low latency and high reliability.
• Work closely with security, compliance, and development teams to ensure the architecture meets all regulatory standards.
• Develop technical roadmaps, cost optimization strategies, and governance standards for the entire cloud environment.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in cloud architecture/engineering.
• Demonstrable expertise in designing and deploying systems using microservices.
• In-depth, hands-on experience with APIGEE.
• Experience integrating AI/ML models into production-grade, highly transactional systems.
• Professional certification with a major cloud provider (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect).
• Experience working within Agile or Scrum frameworks.
• Prior experience in the Financial Services industry is a significant advantage.

Soft Skills and collaboration:

• Stakeholder Communication: Ability to clearly articulate complex architectural decisions to both technical teams and non-technical business stakeholders.
• Leadership and Mentorship: Experience guiding development teams and defining technical standards and governance for the new system.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, especially in diagnosing and resolving performance and security issues in distributed systems.

Our offer:

• Opportunity for career development in a French insurance company.
• Employment contract, competitive salary and bonus scheme.
• Health insurance.
• Food vouchers.
• Additional day of paid leave for birthday.
• Home-office policy.
• Discounts on Groupama insurance products.
• Co-operative and friendly team of professionals.
• Team buildings and training programs.
• Comfortable and nice working environment meeting international standards.
• Career and development opportunities in a challenging and prospective area.

If our offer is interesting for you and you feel that you meet the above requirements, please apply by sending your CV. Only short-listed candidates will be invited for an interview.

All applications will be treated with strict confidentiality under the provisions of the Law for Protection of Personal Data.