**Type of contract:** employment contract **Salary range:** 25000 - 35000 PLN gross **What will you do?** As a **Solution Architect**, you will advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable software solutions. You will help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of strategic solutions. You will own the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects. This role requires managing how decisions in each area affect the overall solution, developing deep expertise in enterprise systems architecture, systems integration and cloud technologies. Furthermore, it involves capturing and sharing best practices within the solution architect community and understanding the specific business domain you will be working in. **Your tasks:** - Design and develop modern software solutions using the latest architectures and technologies - General understanding and experience with cloud solutions (preferable Azure) - Apply CI/CD and Agile best practices, as well as enterprise architecture and integration patterns - Design systems that use microservices, Kubernetes, Kafka, infrastructure as code (IaC), API gateways, and so on - Ensure production readiness (high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, logging, etc.) - Collaborate with senior client stakeholders and represent GFT in technical discussions - Translate business requirements into secure, scalable and reliable solutions - Support pre-sales activities and contribute to solution offerings - Experience in financial services and data/event-driven architectures would be an advantage **Your skills:** - Experience in designing and building software solutions using modern architectures and technologies - Experience in leveraging cloud solutions with one of leading, public cloud providers: AWS/GCP/Azure - Expert knowledge and experience of Continuous Integration & Delivery, Agile principles and practices - Expert knowledge with enterprise architecture/infrastructure/integration patterns - Familiarity with and ability to design microservice architectures, containerization, Kubernetes, Kafka, infrastructure as code, service mesh, API gateways - Understanding of system production readiness concerns and NFRs: HA, DR, logging and monitoring - Advanced experience and knowledge across various aspects of IT, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data management, budgeting, and governance - Ability to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions - Excellent communication skills that will allow you to represent GFT within a customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel within the company - Ability to work independently with senior stakeholders in the client organisation - Ability to support sales and contribute to offering materials - Previous experience in building systems for financial industry would be a big plus - Experience in domain driven development, event driven architecture, data specific architectures is a big plus **We offer you** - Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team - Competitive salary and extra benefit package that can be tailored to your personal needs (private medical coverage, sport & recreation package, lunch subsidy, life insurance, etc.) - Contract of employment - On-line training and certifications fit for career path - Regular social events - Access to e-learning platform We are GFT Poland. **WE KNOW** how to tackle complex issues with innovative approach to deliver the highest value. Our reputation has been built around one simple rule: we do not overpromise, **WE DELIVER**. We deliver to our employees, clients and partners. WE GROW as you grow, so investing in you is our business strategy. Caring for each other is our priority. WE CARE who you are, what you need, how you feel. **WE CARE** to smile, have fun and develop as human beings. ## **Why Choose GFT?** - A culture of top performance - Deep tech IT engineering & consulting - 1200 skilled & top-class experts - 77% of the team are regular/senior - Products that contribute to a sustainable world - Competitive salary and benefits - Ambitious projects, trainings and tools you need to flourish - Google Cloud Partner of the Year - for going above and beyond for customers