Solutions Architect (#726)

Europe
Work type:
Office/Remote
Technical Level:
Architect
Job Category:
Architecture
Project:
Solution Group

Technology Office designs and executes industry-relevant inventions that allow organizations to realize exceptional business value from technology. We are looking for a Solutions Architect. If you want to be a part of the Solution Group department, you would like to participate in consulting: pre- and discoveries, you would like to investigate new features of top technologies, so welcome to the team.
As a Solutions Architect, you will be at the forefront of N-iX global expansion, working with multiple work streams and stakeholders. This is a tremendous opportunity to prove yourself and unlock the new growth frontiers for the company.


Responsibilities:

  • Drive architectural service executions such as Presale, Discovery, and Assessment
  • Talk to the business to understand business and technical requirements for the project
  • Communicate technical constraints and decisions to the business
  • Facilitate cooperation of all the stakeholders to define and prioritize architectural drivers for the solution
  • Cooperate with other architects and technology experts to produce solid architectural decisions
  • Drive and coordinate technical staff discussions
  • Elaborate system quality attributes such as performance, scalability, availability, fault-tolerance, security, deployment, maintainability, and others
  • Translate customers' business, functional, and non-functional requirements into high-quality solution architecture visions and operations plans consistent with enterprise architectural standards using Attribute Driven Design
  • Define architecture strategies, standards, processes, technologies, and tools in architecture visions
  • Drive or assist in solution implementation estimation and roadmap construction
  • Analyze, model, document, and assess existing software architectures according to the Architecture Trade-off Analysis methodology
  • Act as an expert and consult development teams on adherence to solution design, development, and testing standards
  • Convey technical ideas to the development and operations teams
  • Design and implement a large enterprise solution from scratch
  • Lead technical briefings and business requirement gathering sessions
  • Identify integration patterns and places for business automation
  • Author technical documents that cover requirements, design and integration needs
  • Provide input in each cycle of the development phase (development, test, and release) to ensure a leading-edge solution is produced
  • Establish data quality check approaches, tools, and data governance 
  • Provide mentorship, technical expertise and recommendations on the current and emerging strategies and platform trends to the team
  • Manage client expectations and scope effectively
  • Act in compliance to all Company Policies & Procedures

Rights:

  • To take decisions within the provided authority and responsibilities, and to escalate issues to the appropriate stakeholders in case of need
  • To obtain the benefits of cooperation as ensured by Company Policies & Procedures

 

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of relevant industry experience
  • 2+ experience as an Architect
  • Proven experience of building architecture from scratch for big enterprise companies or participation as an architect at least in 2 big projects (longer than 9 months, team 10+)
  • Experience with different clouds – AWS, Azure, GCP
  • Experience in building scalable microservice-based architecture
  • Strong knowledge of integration patterns and implementations
  • Experience working with Kafka and other messaging brokers
  • Strong creativity in problem-solving skills
  • Communication & stakeholder management skills
  • English – Upper-Intermediate/Advanced
  • Must comply with internal technical competence model
  • Superior time and project management skills
  • Ability to present technical details to non-technical audiences
  • Excellent problem-solving/analytical skills and complex troubleshooting methods
  • Ability to work through ambiguous situations
  • Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
  • Self-motivated, able to work independently, and able to take initiative without always being directed
  • Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment and prioritize the most critical tasks and projects

 

Desirable Professional Certifications:

  • SEI Software Architecture Professional 
  • SCJP/SCJD/SCWCD/SCBCD/SCDJWS 
  • MCP/MCTS/MCPD
  • IBM SOA 
  • TOGAF

We offer:

  • Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
  • A competitive salary and good compensation package
  • Personalized career growth
  • Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
  • Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
  • Education reimbursement
  • Paid vacation days, sick leaves, and days off
  • Healthcare & Sport program
  • Medical insurance
  • Memorable anniversary presents
  • Corporate events and team buildings