Position: Solution Architect
Company: UnionFlame
Category: PHP
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**About us** 

The company has been operating since 2014. We specialize in processing crypto IT products. We are currently developing a unique cryptocurrency ecosystem around our core service and payment provider.

We are a "Remote-first" company, most of our employees work remotely (GMT 0 - GMT +4), which does not prevent us from maintaining and strengthening the team spirit, mutual support, and willingness to help.

**Requirements**
- 5+ years of solution architecture experience
- 3+ years of development or software engineering experience (ideally php or go)
- 3+ years utilizing Cloud-Enabled/Optimized practices for Application Development
- Experience leading solution assessments, including vendor evaluations
- Experience with distributed architecture frameworks and cross platform integration
- Hands-on experience with various SDLC methodologies and related tools
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers.
- Experience implementing high volume, mission critical, production systems
- Ability to establish business relationships built on trust, transparency, collaboration, and accountability
- In-depth understanding of SOA, Web services, XML, XSD, WSDL and RAML
- Excellent judgment and analytical skills including detailed planning and project management
- Experience mentoring and coaching employees or consultants
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field and/or equivalent work experience preferred but not required

 **Responsibilities**
- Provide technical expertise on complex products in crypto domain
- Lead solution assessments, including market scans and vendor evaluations
- Define technical proof of concepts as needed to vet potential solutions
- Maintain an awareness of upcoming technology advances, product offerings and their implications to the Purchase Experience technology ecosystem
- Create solution architectures that connect 3rd party vendor products with internal ecosystem using standard integration patterns
- Maintain software roadmap illustrating the progression of technology capabilities required to meet the future-state business vision for the Purchase Experience
- Design, direct and perform governance activities to ensure solutions conform to target-state architecture
- Partner with product, delivery and technology leadership to deliver complex solutions to enhance business capabilities
- Partner with security and IT SM teams to ensure solution architecture incorporates best practices for data privacy and security.

Salary rate: 6000-8000 USD/month gross

**Ready to send your resume?  Great!**
Please make sure you have:
- 5+ years as Architect
- upper-intermediate or higher level of English  
- you can communicate in Russian 
This is important for us.

We are not interested in candidates from Russia and Belarus.