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.

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