Position: Solution Architect
Company: S-PRO
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate

**Our workflow with every project is Consultancy, Discovery, Build, and Maintain.**

**Industry and technology expertise is our strength. Research & Development is our energy.**

With every project, we focus on a business need and deep-diving to clients’ core issues. Only after this analysis can we start development. This approach guarantees delivery of just the right product to our customers and minimizes idle work for our team.

Industries we gained the expertise in:

**FinTech**
**Healthcare**

**Responsibilities:**

pre-sale activities;
work with a software development team to ensure a defined architecture is properly implemented;
acting as a bridge between the development team and the project stakeholders;
system architecture and design;
analyse possible project challenges on constraints including, risks, time, resources and scope;
ensuring best practices and standards, keeping up to date with technology trends;
writing Proof of Concepts;
defining none functional requirements and quality attributes;
knowledge sharing and growth of senior engineers.

**Hard Skills:**

ability to plan, manage, and implement an IT strategy and a business strategy;
ability to structure and maintain data, data and processes modelling (ERD, Activity, Sequence diagrams);
ability to optimise the product development process (for example, using DevOps or Agile)
understanding business analysis, project management and testing technics;
knowledge of different architectural styles and patterns (Modular Monolith, SOA, Microservices, Event-driven, Serverless, etc);
knowledge and ability to apply design patterns;
working experience and deep understanding of at least 2 programming languages (JavaScript is required); nice to have an experience with blockchain;
working experience with DevOps culture and tools. Practice with at least 1 orchestrator (Kubernetes, Nomad, etc).

**Personal qualities:**

ability to identify a problem, analyse the information, and work on effective solutions quickly;
ability to lead a development team;
ability to present own vision and summarise all aspects of the decision;
ability to focus on the result;
ability to adapt to changes and solve problems.

**What we offer:**

Long term focus: we create an environment of transparent communication, minimal bureaucracy, which leads to long-term relationships. Average term of work in the company is 24 months.
Development of niche expertise: we are working in several niches, such as, FinTech, healthcare, and logistics. Therefore, our employees can develop their own expertise in these domains.
Continuous learning: we create employee development plans / personal roadmaps /quick promotion process. The Learning and Development department implements on-the-job training. We have a knowledge base for team members, which is a virtual space with lots of videos of seminars, purchased lectures by external speakers, as well as documents describing work processes.
Internal career development: 80% of our current executives were promoted to those positions within S-PRO. We encourage initiative. If a person wants to set new challenges and grow, we will definitely support them.

**Benefits and perks**

Flexible schedule: you can start the workday at any time from 8 to 11 in the morning.
Hybrid work model: decide for yourself where you want to work: from our stylish and comfortable offices, your cozy home, or anywhere else.
Medical insurance: all our employees who have passed the probationary period are now registered in our health insurance program.
Paid vacations: so, we need to make sure that our employees regularly take vacations and don’t overwork.
Regular salary reviews: there are two types:
planned annual salary reviews. Depending on employees’ results, we increase salaries by 20% to 30% annually.
optional reviews: 5 to 12 months before a planned annual review. Mid-year raises are based on an employee’s performance.
Compensation for external training: we encourage the desire of specialists to develop by paying 50% of the cost of professional courses and conferences. And if someone successfully completes a course and receives a certificate, they may receive 100% compensation.