Position: Solution Architect (AdTech)
Company: Star
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

**The Opportunity**
This is a unique role that would let you experience all the aspects of the consultancy business when working with our clients, one of the largest advertising companies in the world.

You will lead the technical teams and solution architecture for a company-wide digital transformation effort while also  shaping the vision for a global platform that empowers   cross-organizational innovation and technology exchange.

You’ll have an amazing opportunity to receive diverse experience by working with the client, stakeholders, product development teams and subject matter experts. 

This is an amazing opportunity to stand at the origin of a massive program affecting the way hundreds of thousands of people work every day.

**Responsibilities**
Lead the team of tech leads to define the platform architecture. 
Hands-on involvement with the platform solution architecture. 
Present to and review architecture decisions with the committee from the client’s side.
Analyze existing software and technologies to define integration approaches.
Develop PoCs to choose the right solutions for the problem.
Advocate engineering practices for delivery teams.
Collaborate with the product management teams to define product roadmaps.
Participate in meetings with the client’s stakeholders to extract requirements, analyze business problems, and align on solutions.
Take part in client and internal workshops to ideate. 

**Qualifications**

Must have:
7+ years of IT experience, mainly in the area of Solution Architecture, with a focus on emerging Cloud & Data technologies.
Experience participating in large (70+ people) digital transformation projects and leading the tech teams.
Ability to define high-level software and system architectures for Cloud & Data solutions.
Experience working with the product management organization to align on product and technology roadmaps.
Excellent communication skills in English plus the ability to lead business and technology discussions directly with the client.
Understanding of DevOps and infrastructure challenges.
Experience in cloud technologies, ideally GCP.
Former or current development experience using one of these languages: Java, Python, Node.js, or Go.
Excellent, proven interpersonal, verbal, and written communications skills.
Analytical and conceptual thinking – using both logic and reason, creative and strategic thought processes.

Nice to have:
Experience with Enterprise Architecture.
Knowledge of the concepts for data science, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. 
Experience with distributed data architectures.
Experience in working with distributed, international development teams.
Experience running tech due diligence processes for the clients.