Solution Architect

Location: Katowice - 2 days office / 3 days remote

Let us introduce you the job offer by EY GDS Poland – a member of the global integrated service delivery center network by EY.

Right now, we are looking for Senior Solution Architect to join to our EY GDS Technology Consulting team focused on providing cutting – edge IT solutions dedicated to the biggest market players in EMEA region.

The opportunity

You will work with technologists and business specialists, blending EY’s deep industry knowledge and innovative ideas with our platforms, capabilities, and technical expertise. You will build relationships across the business to understand requirements, apply deep technical knowledge of solution and technical architecture to solve business problems and work closely with other architecture and development teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions. That means more growth for you, exciting learning opportunities, career choices, and the chance to make a real impact.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Create innovative and practical designs that account for the end-to-end technical solution of the products, in line with the business strategy and objectives
• Work closely and continuously with the clients’ stakeholders to meet business/client requirements and incorporate broader aspects
• Ensure relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly across technology programs/projects and products
• Contribute to the development of architecture governance structures, methodologies and compliance activities
• Actively participate in pre-sales activity, design technical solution, estimate cost, propose strategy, gather NFR
  
  

Skills And Attributes For Success

• Demonstrate good interpersonal communication and organizational skills
• Ability to adopt and relate new technologies to the set of problems while adhering to security and other standards
• Excellent project management, collaboration, interpersonal and communication skills
• Conceptual and analytical skills – ability to extract, analyze, and document complex business and technical requirements/strategies
  
  

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Advanced understanding of solution architecture
• 4+ years working in an Architect role including: designing, building and maintaining complex solutions, including cloud-based solutions
• Deep understanding of Application and security architecture and non-functional aspects like Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Availability, other “capabilities” of a system
• Good understanding of the latest cloud computing and data technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends, and deployment options.
• Expert-level skills in defining, designing and developing distributed and scalable products and services, including reusable domain-specific microservices on multi-platform /hybrid clouds (for example: Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Rackspace, VMware, or OpenStack)
• Excellent English verbal and written communication with C-Level customers
  
  

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions for Microsoft-centric solutions based on industry standards using IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools like Azure DevOps, Ansible, Puppet, Octopus, Chef, Salt, etc.
• Achieved one or more of the typical Solution Architecture certifications e.g. Microsoft, MS Azure Certification, TOGAF, AWS Cloud Certified, Pivotal, etc.