Position: Solution Architect
Company: Five Jars
Category: PHP
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

Five Jars is open to welcoming an experienced, self-motivated **Solution Architect** into our growing team of professionals. We're looking for our ideal Solutions Architect, proactive and result-oriented with a strong PHP and Drupal development background and excellent communication skills to interact with clients and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. 

If you are an ambitious person who loves developing quality digital solutions as much as we do, we have an excellent opportunity for you to reach your full potential as a Solution Architect at Five Jars!

**Who are we**

Five Jars is a US-based, full-service web development agency led by leaders with 15+ years of experience in technology. We specialize in helping companies make intuitive digital experiences that create measurable impact. As professionals — we deliver high-quality web products to our US-based clients in multiple industries: education, health & fitness, nonprofit, media, enterprise, art & culture. As a team of creative and talented experts, we love our projects, working together and doing everything to ensure the company’s and client’s growth.

**Responsibilities**
**Technical Pre-sales Management & Execution (60%)**
- Build technical strategy and estimates for pre-sale projects and architecture for new projects
- Contribute to the final proposal and provide all necessary technical assets
- Provide support for technical questions during the pre-sales process
- Attend pre-sales meetings and perform clients interview for technical direction
- Analyze the requirements and propose technical solutions or follow-up questions
- Present proposals to the client and represent the team from the technical standpoint
- Hand over won projects to delivery teams and ensure that all findings and expectations of the pre-sales phase are captured and understood
- Communicate with hosting partners about the hosting plan and their involvement in the sales process
- Unify the process of estimations and make it a straightforward and scalable
- Improve the quality of project estimation (understand competitors, analyze previous results, improve tools)

**Technical Strategy Management & Execution (20%)**
- Identify product, modules, or plugins opportunities that can be built and sold by marketing as sales as products to serve as competitive advantages (e.g. distributions, market-specific modules, or plugins)
- Reduce the price of the project by reusing our experience on other projects
- Oversee project implementation and identify derivation from the strategy created during pre-sales
- Build relationships with technology partners (like Platform.sh, Acquia, Pantheon, CRMs, eCommerce systems, etc.)

**Technical Marketing Management & Execution (20%)**
- Build and manage the technical content plan in collaboration with the marketing team (case studies, articles, pages, webinars, newsletters, etc.)
- Contribute to the final marketing materials marketing and delivery teams (review, proofreading, enriching with metrics or technical details)
- Engage the technical team and be responsible for generating creative ideas, topics, and materials (work with developers, QA's, and tech leads on their specific experience-based marketing materials)
- Encourage and involve the technical team in producing marketing materials
- Serve as a technical point of quality control for a company’s website (control quality, decision, hours burn down, and architecture)
- Build a technical HR brand plan in collaboration with the marketing (external publications, wins, technical solutions to make the company technically attractive)
- Participate in marketing activities, like doing research, recording videos, and providing information for marketing materials

**Requirements**
- 5+ years of experience in software development with responsibilities as a solution architect or similar roles
- Proven experience in technical pre-sales management, execution, and strategy in a software development industry
- Strong understanding of software architecture principles, frameworks, and best practices
- Proficiency in PHP programming language and experience with PHP frameworks and libraries
- Extensive experience with Drupal CMS, including module development, theming, and customization
- Ability to build architecture and estimates for new projects, considering scalability and efficiency
- Track record of successfully handing over projects to delivery teams and ensuring smooth transitions
- Knowledge of various hosting partners and their involvement in the sales process
- Experience in building and maintaining relationships with technology partners, such as Platform.sh, Acquia, Pantheon, CRMs, and eCommerce systems
- Ability to engage the technical team in generating creative marketing ideas and materials.
- Strong communication skills to conduct client interviews, present proposals, and represent the technical team effectively
- Advanced level of both written and spoken English language

**We propose:**
- 100% remote work
- Fair compensation
- Professional growth and regular performance reviews
- Benefits such as vacation, sick leave, a day off during official national holidays
- Flexible schedule and 7-hour working day
- Regular Friday activities, including open mics about different tech things from other team members
- Help with learning new things (courses, books, etc.)
- Support in participating in conferences
- Warm and friendly working environment
- Flexibility in making decisions, no micromanagement
- Respect and support with all activities
- Team building and other sorts of online/offline team activities