Portfolio Architect

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About the role

Basware is hiring for the role of Portfolio Architect!

The work

Responsibilities of the Candidate

• Define and evolve the portfolio-level technical architecture across Basware’s product suite, ensuring coherence, scalability, and strategic alignment
• Set architectural review processes for AI and set engineering standards that span teams and products
• Identify architectural risk, technical debt, and opportunities for platform consolidation.
• Lead architectural decisions across LLMs, agentic workflows, vector stores, RAG pipelines, and ML inference infrastructure
• Define the approach for integrating AI capabilities into core product flows — from document intelligence to autonomous process automation
• Evaluate and select AI tooling and frameworks; build the internal knowledge base around responsible experimentation and production readiness.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to product leadership, translating architecture decisions into roadmap impact
• Represent Basware’s technical direction in customer-facing conversations, analyst briefings, and partnership discussions
• Mentor and elevate engineering talent across the organisation; establish communities of practice around architecture and AI.

Who they want

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Solution, Portfolio or Principal Architect at a $300M+ ARR SaaS company
• Fluent in using with modern AI tooling and integrating them naturally into spec-driven development, architecture design, technical planning, etc
• Demonstrable understanding of AI governance, responsible AI principles, and regulatory considerations (e.g. EU AI Act awareness)
• Strong track record of defining and communicating architectural vision to diverse audiences — engineers, executives, and customers
• Deep cloud-native architecture experience on AWS or Azure
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English; able to produce crisp, persuasive technical narratives