Senior Solution Architect

Remote across Romania

Job Description

As a Senior Solution Architect, you will ensure that our clients architecture enables high-quality outcomes, sound engineering practices, and effective alignment across teams. You will guide consistent, Azure-ready, and reliable way of working.

Your Responsibilities:

Empower the Architects

• Act as a cohesive architecture team leader, working collaboratively with other architects to drive change and ensure consistent practices across products/teams and domains.
• Onboard, mentor, and grow architects by aligning goals, priorities, responsibilities, and expectations.
• Facilitate team-wide clarity on architectural pillars, decision-making approaches, and governance processes.
• Promote a strong team identity (“team power”), ensuring architects coordinate effectively, support one another, and operate with a unified vision.

Validate and Shape Technical Designs

• Validate business requirements from a technical perspective and translate them into actionable, well-reasoned solution designs.
• While ensure that Group standards are applied, contribute to their evolutions, with innovative proposals
• Use Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) to make decisions explicit, including the rationale and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) considerations.

Define and Steward System-Wide Architecture

• Contribute to a coherent architecture across teams by defining a clear set of architecture pillars and ensuring they are followed.
• Maintain updated system documentation, including diagrams, data flows, metadata, and integration views.
• Promote simplification and ensure architecture decisions support overall strategy, speed of delivery, and maintainability.

Lead Azure Solution Architecture

• Guide the organisation in designing and building effectively on Azure.
• Help the organisation choose the right level of abstraction along the cloud spectrum — from flexible IaaS → CaaS → PaaS → FaaS — balancing portability, engineering effort, and delivery speed.
• Define cloud foundations: governance, identity & access, security-by-design, compliance, cost optimisation, observability, performance, and reliability.
• Ensure technical choices leverage appropriate Azure services or custom components when justified.

Champion Software Quality and Non-Functional Requirements

• Define non-functional needs such as performance, scalability, resilience, monitoring, and configuration management.
• Ensure modern SDLC practices are applied, including secure coding, zero-trust principles, threat modelling, regulatory compliance, and reliability engineering (SRE concepts, SLAs, metrics, resilience patterns).

Collaborate and Communicate Effectively

• Promote a collaborative, respectful, and supportive culture where architecture empowers teams to do their best work.
• Work closely with distributed teams and stakeholders to align technical decisions with business priorities.
• Communicate architecture at multiple levels — from executive summaries to detailed design sessions.
• Support estimation, planning, and budgeting with clear architectural input.

Serve and Enable the Organisation

• Act as a trusted partner to product owners, developers, tech leads, and stakeholders, helping them make better technical decisions with clarity and confidence.
• Demonstrate a genuine passion for enabling teams — removing friction, simplifying complexity, and ensuring architecture is a service that supports delivery rather than a barrier.
• Mentor architects and developers on solution design, architecture patterns, and best practices.
• Support skills governance by helping identify expertise gaps (e.g., Azure, integration, observability) and promoting training and upskilling initiatives.
• Help teams understand decision trade-offs and align on consistent ways of working.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, with 5-10 years in a similar architecture role.
• Proven experience in Solution Architecture, particularly in designing distributed systems and cloud-based platforms.
• Strong understanding of Azure services, architectural trade-offs, cloud governance, and cost-awareness.
• Familiarity with concepts such as event-driven architecture, integration patterns, API management, and container strategies.
• Experience working with system documentation, ADRs, modelling methods (e.g., UML), and architecture frameworks.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF or similar).
• Exposure to C# (.NET Core), SQL Server/PostgreSQL, or frontend technologies to facilitate collaboration, deployment pipelines and DevOps practices — but not as primary responsibilities.

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