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Transversal TechLead — Coface Business Information

Coface

Skills

Required

  • cloud
  • JAVA
  • Spring Boot
  • Angular
  • Oracle
  • PostgreSQL
  • gRPC
  • Jenkins
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Kafka
  • RabbitMQ
  • serverless computing
  • Prometheus

Preferred

  • credit insurance / trade finance
  • Coface's
  • AI/ML platform architecture
  • data pipelines
  • AI workloads
  • SAFe Architect
  • Confluence

Join Coface, a global leader in credit insurance, as a Transversal TechLead. In this hands-on technical leadership role, you will collaborate closely with product teams, developers, and stakeholders to design scalable, secure, and data-led solutions that support Coface's strategic business growth and digital transformation objectives. You will bridge the gap between business requirements and technology execution, ensuring architecture/technical decisions are transparent, cost-effective, compliant, and future-proof.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborer avec les équipes produit pour recueillir, clarifier et formaliser les exigences commerciales.
  • Travailler en équipe avec les architectes d'entreprise et de données pour traduire les problèmes commerciaux en solutions architecturales.
  • Concevoir des architectures fonctionnelles modulaires et évolutives et des stratégies de transition par phases.
  • Reduction of identified technical debt items year-on-year.
  • Successful POC-to-production conversion rate.
  • Time-to-market improvement for new platform features.
  • SLA adherence for platform availability and performance (uptime, latency).
  • Quality and coverage of architecture documentation (ADRs, Confluence).

Requirements

Experience : 10+ Years

  • Full-stack : infrastructure, data, microservices, and front-end.
  • Designing APIs, web platforms, and mobile applications for credit, insurance, or compliance domains.
  • Data strategy, integration, orchestration, and governance.
  • Experience designing and scaling data-intensive applications; experience in the B2B data domain is a strong advantage.
  • Rules engine design and implementation.
  • Infrastructure migration and modernization (on-premises to cloud).
  • Agile team leadership and outsourced development coordination.
  • Operating in regulated environments (e.g., financial services, insurance).
  • Security architecture, compliance, and incident management.
  • BackEnd technologies : JAVA, Spring Boot
  • FrontEnd technologies : Angular
  • Database : Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQLserver, Redis
  • Authentication : KeyClaok
  • Cloud services : AWS
  • Workflow Orchestration : Temporal

Platform experience analytics : ContentSquare

  • Architecture components and integration patterns (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, event-driven, ESB).
  • Modeling languages: UML, ArchiMate, C4 model.
  • ITIL, TOGAF, SAFe, or COBIT governance frameworks.
  • DevOps and CI/CD methodologies (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps).
  • Network and security architecture principles (Zero Trust, WAF, API Gateways).
  • Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
  • API gateways (Spring Cloud Gateway), event-driven architecture (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and serverless computing.
  • Observability stacks (Instana, Kibana, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent).
  • Data platforms and data-centric application design (data lakes, data mesh, lakehouse).
  • Excellent interpersonal, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
  • Strategic leadership and innovation mindset.
  • Ability to align IT strategy with business transformation goals.
  • Adaptability in hybrid and remote work environments.
  • Ability to coach and mentor technical teams.
  • Strong written and oral communication — ability to present architecture decisions to both technical and executive audiences.
  • Fluent in English (written and spoken) — required.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).

Preferred

  • Experience with AI/ML platform architecture and data pipelines for AI workloads.
  • Experience in the credit insurance or trade finance domain.
  • Familiarity with Coface's product ecosystem and competitive landscape.
  • Agile certifications (SAFe Architect, Scrum Master, or equivalent).
  • Cybersecurity certifications (CISSP, CISM, or equivalent).
  • TOGAF certification.
  • French is a plus (daily collaboration with Paris-based teams).
  • Romanian is a plus (coordination with the Coface development center in Romania).

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

  • Success in this role will be measured against the following indicators:
  • Architecture compliance rate across projects (target: >90%).

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