Role : Product Architect

Type - Employment Contract

Location - Warsaw Poland Hybrid

Product Architect (Architecture) Overview

The Product Architecture team provides architecture support to Product Management and Engineering. Guiding good product design and integration in readiness for release and customer integration.

Additionally, they provide site specific services such as technology stack evaluation and recommendations, bespoke customer integration guidance, and deep dive assistance on persistent problems.

The Product Architect (Architect) makes decisions on the design and technical integrations and roadmap choices for Companies Products and customer deployed solutions.

What you will be doing:

The Architect role has key tasks that they work towards:

• Product Architecture – when necessary, define or evolve a product architecture based on new requirements or overall system needs.

• Solution Architecture – when required by System Architecture, help define a particular decision or solution for a customer deployment to guide development and customer technical leads.

• Architecture Strategy – help guide engineering and product towards technologies and an architecture that meets business needs, being responsible for key design decisions when necessary.

What you bring with you:

• Product Architecture Ownership – help analyse and consolidate requirements into a technical solution as input to product roadmaps and for engineering to develop towards.

• Delivery Improvement Mindset – Identify areas of optimization for engineering to work towards to make realisation of the architecture easier and robust. Influencing changes in ways of working and deliverables.

• Technical Experience – Apply architectural and system design expertise to support critical decision points in both product and solution development. Clearly communicate the trade offs of different approaches and help stakeholders make well-informed decisions based on cost, complexity, performance, and maintainability.

• Hands on mindset – where necessary get involved in setting up the foundations or help resolve critical issues together with engineering.

• Strong communication and facilitation skills – Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving and occasionally chaotic environment with diverse, opinionated stakeholders. Confident in navigating conflicting viewpoints, building alignment, and driving architectural and strategic discussions to actionable conclusions.

In addition, you bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in an IT field or equivalent work experience, with at least 5 years of experience in a business systems analysis role or as a product owner managing a complex product or feature within an enterprise environment

• A strong understanding of product management and agile software development methods, with familiarity in modern product design and management tools

• A solid understanding of software architecture and development principles, including patterns, modularity, scalability, and lifecycle management

• Strong knowledge of Java and its ecosystem, including common frameworks and technologies such as Spring, JPA/Hibernate, RESTful APIs, Maven/Gradle, and unit/integration testing frameworks

• Familiarity with frontend technologies (e.g., HTML, JavaScript, React/Angular) at a conceptual level to support end-to-end design discussions

• Familiarity with public cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, or GCP), including deployment models, native services, and architectural considerations for cloud native systems

• Awareness of security principles, including data protection, authentication and authorization, secure communication, and secure system design

• Conceptual understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform, ARM/Bicep, or CloudFormation) and DevOps tools and practices, such as CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes)

• Knowledge of TOGAF and Archimate frameworks is a plus

• Ability to travel (up to 15% of time)

• Ability to work across multiple time zones if required