Transversal TechLead – Business Information

About the role

Coface is looking for a hands-on Transversal TechLead for its Business Information team in Bois-Colombes. The role stays close to implementation teams, reviews designs and code, mentors engineers and supports complex technical delivery challenges. Working with Enterprise and Data Architects, you bridge business requirements and technology execution so that architecture decisions are transparent, cost-effective, compliant and future-proof.

Key responsibilities

• Gather and formalize business requirements with product teams and turn them into architectural solutions with Enterprise and Data Architects.
• Analyze legacy systems and source code, document functional needs and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) in Confluence, and run gap analyses to identify technical debt.
• Design modular, scalable functional architectures, integration patterns and phased transition strategies for legacy systems.
• Select technology stacks via POCs, define NFRs (performance, availability, resilience, scalability), and design observability (logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting).
• Review designs, conduct code reviews, coach senior developers and lead developers, and participate in Agile ceremonies and production readiness reviews.
• Take part in security architecture reviews, threat modeling, GDPR and financial-services compliance, and incident management.
• Contribute to Architecture Review Boards and ADAC, maintain architecture standards and reference architectures, and author ADRs.

Required profile

• 10+ years of experience, including full-stack work (infrastructure, data, microservices, front-end) and designing APIs, web platforms and mobile apps for credit, insurance or compliance domains.
• Data strategy, integration, orchestration and governance; experience scaling data-intensive applications; B2B data experience is an advantage.
• Infrastructure migration (on-premises to cloud), rules engines, and agile team leadership and outsourced development coordination.
• Operating in regulated environments such as financial services and insurance; security architecture, compliance and incident management.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Fluent English; French and Romanian are a plus.

Required skills

• Back-end: Java, Spring Boot; Front-end: Angular; Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, Redis.
• Authentication: Keycloak; Cloud: AWS; Workflow orchestration: Temporal.
• Integration patterns: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Kafka, RabbitMQ, iPaaS, ESB; API gateways (Spring Cloud Gateway).
• Observability: Instana, Kibana, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog.
• DevOps and CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps; Docker, Kubernetes, Helm.
• Modeling: UML, ArchiMate, C4; governance frameworks such as ITIL, TOGAF, SAFe, COBIT.

Nice to have: AI/ML platform architecture, credit insurance or trade finance experience, Agile certifications (SAFe Architect, Scrum Master), and cybersecurity certifications (CISSP, CISM). The role offers telework, a restaurant ticket and language training.