Description
**Senior Software Architect**
We are looking for a **Senior Software Architect** to drive people and businesses forward through innovation, with attitude, ownership, and a focus on getting things done.
**Your impact in this role:**
* Serve as the technical reference for development teams
* Design technical architectures, including AI/ML solutions
* Design RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures and integrations with LLMs
• Define technologies, evaluate AI tools and platforms (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Azure AI)
• Architect MLOps pipelines (model deployment, monitoring, versioning)
• Participate in supplier meetings to validate technical feasibility
• Create technical documentation and disseminate knowledge (workshops, study groups)
* Guide teams on scalability, security, and governance
* Review implementations and support production troubleshooting
✅ **Essential requirements:**
* Minimum 5 years in software architecture
* Minimum 2 years with AI/ML projects in production
* Advanced Java + Spring framework (Boot, Batch, Dataflow)
* Python (essential for AI/ML and data pipelines)
* Distributed systems and microservices
* REST APIs, GraphQL
* Databases: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis
* Vector Databases: Pinecone, Weaviate, ChromaDB (for RAG)
* BPM (Business Process Management)
* LLMs: hands-on experience with GPT, Claude, Llama + prompt engineering
* RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures
* Frameworks: Langchain, LlamaIndex, TensorFlow, PyTorch
* AI APIs: OpenAI API, Anthropic API, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI
* MLOps: model versioning, feature stores, model registry
* ML data pipelines (feature engineering, data drift)
* Fine-tuning and embedding models
* Cloud: AWS (SageMaker, Bedrock, Lambda, ECS/EKS), Azure (Azure ML, AI), GCP (Vertex AI)
* CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
* Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
* Observability: Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK
* Messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ
* Git (version control)
* **Nice-to-have:**
* Prior experience in Financial Institutions
* Banking domain knowledge (Open Banking, PIX)
* Fine-tuning LLMs for specific domains
* Autonomous agent architectures (ReAct, AutoGPT)
• Cost optimization for AI solutions
• AI governance and compliance (LGPD, AI Act)
* Cloud certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP Solutions Architect)
* AI/ML certifications (AWS ML Specialty, Azure AI Engineer)
**Benefits:**
Remote work allowance
Flash card
Access to South Academy courses and certifications
Financial education program
**About South:**
You’ll join a collaborative team with autonomy and a focus on continuous improvement, working on projects with real business impact, where turning ideas into deliverables is part of everyday work.
We’re recognized for our people: we’ve been named twice among Brazil’s best places to work (GPTW).
We’re committed to the future: we’re a carbon-neutral company.
Interested? Apply now and help us make it happen.