Position: Solutions Architect
Company: N-IX
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

If you want to be a part of the Solution Group department, you would like to participate in consulting: pre-sales and discoveries, you would like to investigate new features of top technologies, so welcome to the team.

As a Solutions Architect, you will be at the forefront of N-iX global expansion, working with multiple work streams and stakeholders. This is a tremendous opportunity to prove yourself and unlock the new growth frontiers for the company.

**Functions:**
- Drive architectural service executions such as Presale, Discovery, and Assessment
- Talk to the business to understand business and technical requirements for the project
- Communicate technical constraints and decisions to the business
- Facilitate cooperation of all the stakeholders to define and prioritize architectural drivers for the solution
- Cooperate with other architects and technology experts to produce solid architectural decisions
- Drive and coordinate technical staff discussions
- Elaborate system quality attributes such as performance, scalability, availability, fault-tolerance, security, deployment, maintainability, and others
- Translate customers' business, functional, and non-functional requirements into high-quality solution architecture visions and operations plans consistent with enterprise architectural standards using Attribute Driven Design
- Define architecture strategies, standards, processes, technologies, and tools in architecture visions
- Drive or assist in solution implementation estimation and roadmap construction
- Analyze, model, document, and assess existing software architectures according to the Architecture Trade-off Analysis methodology
- Act as an expert and consult development teams on adherence to solution design, development, and testing standards
- Convey technical ideas to the development and operations teams
- Design and implement a large enterprise solution from scratch
- Lead technical briefings and business requirement gathering sessions
- Identify integration patterns and places for business automation
- Author technical documents that cover requirements, design and integration needs
- Provide input in each cycle of the development phase (development, test, and release) to ensure a leading-edge solution is produced
- Establish data quality check approaches, tools, and data governance
- Provide mentorship, technical expertise and recommendations on the current and emerging strategies and platform trends to the team
- Manage client expectations and scope effectively
- Act in compliance to all Company Policies & Procedures

**Rights:**
- To take decisions within the provided authority and responsibilities, and to escalate issues to the appropriate stakeholders in case of need
- To obtain the benefits of cooperation as ensured by Company Policies & Procedures

**Requirements:**
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience
- 2+ experience as an Architect
- Proven experience of building architecture from scratch for big enterprise companies or participation as an architect at least in 2 big projects (longer than 9 months, team 10+)
- Experience with different clouds – AWS, Azure, GCP
- Experience in building scalable microservice-based architecture
- Strong knowledge of integration patterns and implementations
- Experience working with Kafka and other messaging brokers
- Strong creativity in problem-solving skills
- Communication & stakeholder management skills
- English – Upper-Intermediate/Advanced
- Must comply with internal technical competence model
- Superior time and project management skills
- Ability to present technical details to non-technical audiences
- Excellent problem-solving/analytical skills and complex troubleshooting methods
- Ability to work through ambiguous situations
- Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
- Self-motivated, able to work independently, and able to take initiative without always being directed
- Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment and prioritize the most critical tasks and projects

**Desirable Professional Certifications:**
- SEI Software Architecture Professional
- SCJP/SCJD/SCWCD/SCBCD/SCDJWS
- MCP/MCTS/MCPD
- IBM SOA
- TOGAF

**We offer:**
- Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
- A competitive salary and good compensation package
- Flexible and personalized career growth
- Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
- Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
- Education reimbursement
- Paid vacation days, sick leaves, and days off
- Healthcare & Sport program
- Medical insurance
- Memorable anniversary presents
- Corporate events and team buildings