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

**The Opportunity**
You will work together with product managers, designers, architects, and SMEs of our industry team to deliver solution architectures, work breakdown structures, estimates, project timelines for clients. This role would let you experience all the aspects of the consultancy business and participate in pre-sales, discovery, and delivery projects.

**Must have:**
● The individual will be an independent-thinking technical generalist with 8+ years of professional experience in tech product development;
● Good knowledge of different different architecture styles, patterns, and trade-offs;
● 3+ years of strong client-facing experience and the ability to understand client challenges and provide articulate solutions;
● Experience with leading teams of engineers during a project delivery;
● Hands-on experience with using popular cloud platforms to deliver high available software cloud solutions;
● Some experience with FinTech domain and willingness to immerse yourself into this domain;
● Understanding of software development lifecycle and agile development process (including agile engineering practices and DevOps);
● Experience in building integrations with different products and services using APIs and SDKs;
● Hands-on knowledge and experience with NodeJS;
● Recent hands-on experience with backend development;
● Advanced English. The ability to lead technical discussions directly with Star’s commercial teams as well as clients and prospective clients.

**Good to have:**
● Experience architecting FinTech for Financial Services applications in the areas of money management, digital banking, fintech platforms, insurance or e-commerce businesses;
● Experience with building PCI DSS compliant solutions;
● Recent hands-on experience with both frontend (Web) and backend development;
● Experience with building microservices using container orchestration engines such as kubernetes;
● Experience in leading distributed, international development teams;
● Excellent, proven interpersonal, verbal, and written communications skills.

**Responsibilities:**
● Participate in pre-sales and discovery projects;
● Gain business insights during workshops with clients and create work breakdown sheets together with product managers and other architects;
● Research technical solutions and do proof of concepts when necessary;
● Document solution architecture and architectural decisions;
● Provide technical estimates and define required team structure for delivering a solution;
● Present technical solution architecture to clients;
● Together with other FinTech team members, craft compelling proposals and pitches;
● Facilitate and assist product delivery teams in planning and managing the execution of software development projects through all steps of the development lifecycle;
● Lead development teams of 3-6 engineers;
● Contribute to defining and enhancing our global FinTech industry.