Position: Solutions Architect / Tech Lead
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11


I have an excellent technical background along with strong leadership, communication, and soft skills. I made a brilliant career path from a software engineer to a solutions architect.

A few numbers just to be clear:
• 12+ years experience in the IT industry.
• 3 years worked as a team lead.
• 2+ years working as a solutions architect.
• Improved 10+ internal processes during the last year.

Working as a Solutions Architect my current responsibilities are:
• Solutions: design the solution architecture, design system components on a high level, consult existing projects, prepare architecture-specific documentation,
make decisions around technical stack and infrastructure.
• Tech-sales: communicate with sales
and customers, prepare high-level WBS, identify risks and assumptions, conduct estimation sessions, define buffers and reserves.
• R&D projects: identify the need for an R&D project, lead R&D projects, assist R&D teams, develop POC projects, fulfill company knowledge gaps.
• Active projects: control the high-level architecture implementation, consult the team about solution requirements, tweak solution architecture
on-the-go, participate in the communication
with a customer.
• Problem solving: resolve disputes and make tradeoffs
on different phases of a project, resolve complex technical problems, interact with stakeholders to
achieve common goals, verify escalations made by developers.
• Pre-sale activities: identify opportunities in existing projects, assist with marketing
technical articles, and discover trends in software.
• The cross-department collaboration: act as a midpoint between customer needs and development team, collaborate with BA department on solution requirements and during a project definition phase, collaborate with PM and sales.

Also, I have good experience working as a team lead on a SaaS platform that offers a low-code development environment. 

In addition, I'm a knowledge holder in ticketing and fin-tech.
Looking for long-term work.