Gaming Architect
- Location
- Malta
- Posted
- 5d ago
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<p style="text-align: left;"></p> <h2><strong>About Betsson Group</strong></h2> <p style="text-align: left;"></p> <p>At Betsson, you’ll join a global engineering organisation building high‑scale, real‑time platforms across 40+ digital brands. After more than 60 years in the industry, our products handle large volumes of user activity and complex regulatory requirements — making performance, reliability and modern cloud‑native engineering essential to everything we do. You’ll collaborate with colleagues from 75+ nationalities in a culture built on learning, ownership and teamwork.</p> <p> </p> <h2></h2> <h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p><span class="TextRun SCXW107551496 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107551496 BCX0">We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Gaming Architect to define and govern the architecture of scalable, resilient, and secure backend services for our gaming platform. The role will translate product, operational, and regulatory requirements into robust technical designs across game management, gameplay, provider integrations, player and wallet interactions, promotions, responsible gaming, and regulatory capabilities. The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering expertise with systems thinking, cloud-native architecture experience, and a practical understanding of high-volume online gaming environments. You will collaborate with the rest of the architecture department, product, engineering, infrastructure</span><span class="NormalTextRun CommentStart CommentHighlightPipeRest CommentHighlightRest SCXW107551496 BCX0">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun CommentHighlightPipeRest SCXW107551496 BCX0"> security, data, compliance, and external partners to guide implementation and the long-term evolution of the platform.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW107551496 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p> </p> <h2><strong></strong></h2> <h2><strong>What You’ll Work On</strong></h2> <p><strong><span class="TextRun SCXW189295681 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW189295681 BCX0">Backend Architecture and Technical Direction:</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW189295681 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></strong> </p> <ul> <li>Define and evolve the target architecture for gaming backend services, ensuring alignment with business strategy, domain boundaries, and the wider platform landscape. </li> <li>Translate functional and non-functional requirements into clear solution designs, integration contracts, architecture decisions, and technical roadmaps. </li> <li>Promote modular, loosely coupled, and reusable services that support independent delivery and future B2C or B2B integration scenarios. </li> </ul> <p><strong><span class="TextRun SCXW208287834 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW208287834 BCX0">Gaming Domain Design:</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW208287834 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></strong></p> <ul> <li>Design solutions across game management, gameplay, player and wallet interactions, provider integration, promotions, responsible gaming, regulatory functions, and operational tooling. </li> <li>Model domain capabilities, service boundaries, ownership, and event flows using domain-driven design and product-oriented architecture principles. </li> <li>Ensure backend designs support accurate session handling, game launch and lifecycle flows, transactional integrity, reconciliation, and auditable gaming outcomes. </li> </ul> <p><strong><span class="TextRun SCXW65981164 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW65981164 BCX0">Distributed Systems and Integration:</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW65981164 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></strong></p> <ul> <li>Architect APIs, asynchronous events, and real-time messaging flows between gaming services, internal platform domains, data products, and external game providers. </li> <li>Define reliable integration patterns for REST, event streaming, queues, webhooks, and provider-specific protocols, including versioning, idempotency, retries, timeouts, and failure handling. </li> <li>Drive the standardisation of contracts and integration frameworks to reduce coupling and accelerate onboarding of new providers, brands, and markets. </li> </ul> <p><strong><span class="TextRun SCXW24324999 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW24324999 BCX0">Scalability, Reliability, and Performance:</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW24324999 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></strong></p> <ul> <li>Design for high availability, low latency, horizontal scalability, fault isolation, graceful degradation, disaster recovery, and predictable performance under peak gaming loads. </li> <li>Define service-level objectives and guide capacity planning, caching, data-store selection, resilience testing, and performance optimisation. </li> <li>Ensure solutions include effective observability through metrics, logs, distributed tracing, alerting, and operational dashboards. </li> </ul> <p><strong><span class="TextRun SCXW94092123 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW94092123 BCX0">Security, Compliance, and Responsible Gaming:</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW94092123 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></strong></p> <ul> <li>Embed security by design, including strong authentication and authorisation, least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management, network segmentation, and secure software supply-chain practices. </li> <li>Work with security, legal, and compliance stakeholders to ensure architecture supports jurisdiction-specific gaming controls, responsible gaming measures, auditability, data protection, and regulatory reporting obligations. </li> <li>Maintain cle