Solutions Architect

Job Title: Solution Architect

Location: Cracow (6x a month onsite)

Role Overview

The Solution Architect is responsible for managing end-to-end solution design, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture patterns and strategies. The role focuses on translating business requirements into scalable technology solutions while delivering expected business outcomes, meeting regulatory requirements, and mitigating operational risks.

The scope includes small to medium-sized value streams as well as complex solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Rapidly understand business requirements through interactions with stakeholders, business users, and subject matter experts
• Translate business requirements into solution designs and functional specifications
• Develop technical and logical architecture designs
• Communicate solutions to development teams and provide ongoing support
• Collaborate with production support teams to ensure smooth handover and support readiness
• Promote solution architecture best practices, standards, and tools
• Provide recommendations and roadmaps for proposed solutions
• Document and share best practices for new solutions
• Advocate for process improvements and contribute to solution development
• Provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle
• Develop proof-of-concepts (POCs) to validate proposed solutions
• Review and validate solution designs from peers
• Own and manage detailed end-to-end solution designs, addressing risks, issues, and technical debt
• Ensure solutions are cost-effective and aligned with agile development practices
• Ensure architectural assessments are conducted at appropriate stages per governance processes
• Maintain governance standards when deviating from established architecture patterns or policies
• Ensure peer reviews, traceability, and validation of design decisions
• Collaborate with enterprise and platform architects to evolve architectural strategy and roadmap

Key Qualifications & Skills

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Solution Architect in large, complex, and geographically distributed organizations
• Strong ability to think abstractly and derive architectural patterns from technical solutions
• Proven leadership skills with the ability to present and gain approval from both technical and business stakeholders
• Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, Pub/Sub)
• Knowledge of integration patterns (REST APIs, Microservices)
• Experience with databases (SQL / NoSQL)
• Knowledge of data warehousing and ETL/data integration
• Experience with Linux and scripting (Bash, AWK, PowerShell)
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with Big Data tools (Hadoop, Spark, Databricks, BigQuery)
• Understanding of containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to challenge technical decisions and designs effectively
• Ability to quickly adapt to new data landscapes and technologies
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Strong organizational and time management abilities
• Good commercial awareness and business understanding
• Ability to work independently with confidence