Principal Solution Architect

Join us to set the frame, tell the story, and lead the way to One SOS

Do you teach others to surf the winds of change? At SOS International, those winds are picking up. We are converging our two lines of business, Mobility and Travel Care, into a unified platform. When a traveler needs help abroad, or a car breaks down on an empty road at night, our software must work. Lives, livelihoods, and brand promise depend on it.

In summer 2025 we sketched the first contours of our target architecture and began the first steps of the Transition Architecture. Now we’re ready to deepen the blueprint, make decisions visible, and move with purpose. This is where you come in.

The moment & the mission

As Principal Solution Architect in Group Architecture & Security, you stand on the stage with the Head of Group Architecture & Security to communicate direction and frame, clearly, repeatedly, and in language that executives, product owners, engineers, and operators can all act on. You will co‑author the target state and plot the path from as‑is to to‑be, ensuring we stay fully operational while modernizing. We don’t just draw ideal end‑states. We design safe steps, align incentives, and help teams ship value while we change.

The platform we’re building

Our target architecture is shaped by Domain‑Driven Design and an Event‑Driven Architecture with eventual consistency. We favor choreography over orchestration, contract‑first interfaces, and observable boundaries between domains. We run containerized workloads with Kubernetes (Red Hat OpenShift). Most current platforms are Java back end with Angular front end, and a meaningful estate in C#, all evolving within a unified frame that prizes resilience over walls and collaboration over silos.

How you’ll lead

You create clarity of intent so teams can decide well without waiting for permission. You shorten feedback loops between business and technology. You turn firefighting into systemic learning. You replace hand‑offs with shared ownership, and opinions with evidence, contracts, events, telemetry, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). And you keep the story visible: why this matters to our customers, our colleagues, and the people who depend on us at 02:00 in the morning.

What success looks like

Success is felt across the organization and seen in outcomes:

• Direction is understood. The business impact of our Transition Architecture is clear across functions; leaders and teams can explain the “why, what, and what now” in their own words.
• The frame holds. Bounded contexts expose versioned Read REST APIs and emit Domain Change Events; domains consume events to build local projections rather than coupling through synchronous chains.
• Change is safer and faster. Lead time to integrate a domain drops; more features ship without cross‑team blocking; incidents tied to integration fragility decline.
• Contracts are living assets. OpenAPI and AsyncAPI contracts are curated, versioned in a shared repo, and governed predictably; “flag days” disappear as multiple versions run in parallel.
• Modernization is continuous. A pragmatic migration plan balances reliability with progress; legacy is wrapped and gradually retired, without stopping the business.
• The culture levels up. Architecture forums, brown‑bags, and guilds become places where people learn, contribute, and lead.

What you will do

• Co‑author and communicate the target architecture and transition path, turning principles into decisions, and decisions into working software.
• Partner with the Head of Group Architecture & Security to set the frame, align stakeholders, and represent architecture in exec and product forums.
• Shape domain boundaries and integration contracts (events + read APIs), ensuring semantic events, parallel versioning, and backward compatibility.
• Guide solution design for complex initiatives (Mobility, Travel Care, B2B/B2B2C integrations), making trade‑offs explicit and reversible.
• Mentor architects and senior engineers, building an intent‑driven, outcome‑focused architecture practice.
• Embed operability and resilience, from stateless services and immutability to repeatable, predictable, reliable deployments.
• Measure flow, reliability, and adoption (e.g., % of domains emitting versioned events; integration lead time; contract coverage), and use data to steer.

What you bring

• Architect first, developer always. You’ve designed and shipped systems as a senior engineer/tech lead, and you still think in code and runtime behavior.
• Deep integration experience across DDD, EDA, eventual consistency, projections, API versioning, and contract‑first design, comfortable with both Java and C# ecosystems.
• Cloud‑native pragmatism on Kubernetes/OpenShift, you value observability, idempotency, and failure‑first thinking more than brand‑new tech.
• Narrative leadership. You can stand in front of a room and make complexity simple; you can sit with a squad and make ambiguity actionable.
• Change craft. You know how to sequence transitions, reduce blast radius, and keep the lights on while modernizing.
• Calm urgency. You move fast without breaking trust, and you replace “no” with “yes, and here’s how.”

The engineering story we’re writing

We believe in freedom with a frame: teams innovate inside clear boundaries. Internals are your micro‑architecture; edges are our macro‑architecture. Our interfaces are explicit, discoverable, and governed; our systems are stateless where they can be and observable where they must be. We assume systems will fail, networks will partition, and change will be constant—so we design for resilience and graceful recovery.

Where you’ll sit

You will report to the Head of Group Architecture & Security and work closely with product, engineering, operations, and senior leadership across Mobility and Travel Care. The role can be based in either Copenhagen or Aarhus, with flexibility for partial remote work. Your impact will be both hands‑on in critical designs and organizational in the way we work.

Why SOS International

When people need help, they call us. Your architecture will be felt by the traveler who gets timely care and the family who gets safely home. If you want your craft to matter beyond the code, this is your place.

If that sounds like you, join us on this journey…

Send us your application and CV as soon as possible – We review applications continuously and will remove the posting once the position is filled.

If you have any questions about the position, feel free to contact Head of Architecture & Security, Nicolai Guido Klausen at nicolai.klausen@sos.eu

... We look forward to hearing from you!

Om SOS International

SOS International er en af de førende assistanceorganisationer i Norden. Fra alarmcentraler i Danmark, Sverige, Norge og Finland yder SOS International akut assistance overalt i verden, nat og dag, hele året rundt.

SOS International tilbyder en bred vifte af løsninger i form af verdensomspændende læge- og rejseassistance, vejhjælp samt sundhedsløsninger.

SOS International har et omfattende netværk af kvalificerede leverandører og partnere over hele verden, samt seks strategiske partnerkontorer i højvolumenområder. Med mere end 1.200 ansatte, repræsenterer SOS International 30 nationaliteter, og til sammen taler vores medarbejdere mere end 37 forskellige sprog.

SOS International blev etableret i 1961 og ejes af 13 af de største forsikringsselskaber i Norden. SOS International har en sagsvolumen, der placerer virksomheden som en af de største assistanceorganisationer i Norden.

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