Solution Architect

Mindbox is a tech-driven company connecting top IT talents with technology projects for leading enterprises across Europe. The Solution Architect role involves managing end-to-end solution design, ensuring alignment with architectural patterns, strategies, and business requirements, and delivering cost-effective, scalable, and secure solutions.

• 5+ years of experience as a Solution Architect in a large, complex, and geographically dispersed organization.
• Strong ability to abstract architectural patterns from technical solutions.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to present and obtain approval for solutions at all levels.
• Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, Pub/Sub).
• Knowledge of application integration patterns: REST API, Microservices.
• Expertise in database technologies: SQL / NoSQL.
• Knowledge of Data Warehousing, ETL, and data integration.
• Familiarity with Linux, Shell scripting (Bash, AWK), PowerShell.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, AWS).
• Knowledge of Big Data platforms: BigQuery, Hadoop, Spark, Databricks.
• Understanding of containerization: Docker, Kubernetes (IKP, GKE).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent planning, organization, and time management skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have:

• Awareness of Master Data Management principles.
• Knowledge of data processing languages: Scala, Python (Spark, Pandas).
• Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture methodologies (e.g., TOGAF).

• Rapidly understand business requirements through regular interactions with stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Translate business needs into solution designs and functional requirements.
• Build technical and logical designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Communicate functional solutions to development teams and provide ongoing support during implementation.
• Collaborate with production support teams to ensure new software is well-documented and supported.
• Promote best practices, standards, and tools for solution architecture.
• Provide recommendations and roadmaps for proposed solutions.
• Document and share best practices for new solutions.
• Advocate for process improvements and develop innovative solutions.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle.
• Develop proof-of-concept projects to validate proposed solutions.
• Review and validate solution designs from other team members.
• Manage and define detailed end-to-end solution designs, addressing architectural risks and technical debt.
• Ensure designs are cost-effective and maintained throughout the agile development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Enterprise, Platform, and Value Stream Architects to evolve architectural strategy and roadmap.