IT Solution Architect

At CloudFerro, the team builds technologies used daily by Europe’s leading science and space institutions—including ESA, EUMETSAT, ECMWF, Mercator Ocean International, DLR, and EGI. The role involves working close to the Earth Observation sector to support analyses and deepen the understanding of our planet.

• Technical education in computer science, electronics, telecommunications, or similar.
• Minimum 5 years of IT experience as an architect, especially in infrastructure-related areas.
• Experience working directly with clients.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Knowledge of cloud computing concepts.
• Understanding of design patterns or experience designing distributed processing systems.
• Experience designing high-availability (HA) systems.
• Strong soft skills including communication, teamwork, openness to change, independence, diligence, efficiency, creativity, and patience.
• Experience preparing technical offers.
• Knowledge of IT architecture documentation standards, especially C4.
• Attention to standards and best practices.
• Ability to design and document scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions.
• Ability to specify technical tasks for external teams.
• Experience working with IT specialists across various domains and technologies.
• Willingness to share knowledge and experience.
• Understanding of product-oriented thinking.
• Excellent self-organization, planning, and prioritization skills.
• Focus on quality and timely delivery.
• Ability to present complex technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders.
• Very good command of English enabling communication with clients and partners, and documentation reading and creation (minimum B2/C1).

• Designing and maintaining up-to-date IT system architectures for clients using CloudFerro’s product portfolio.
• Collaborating with clients, project managers, product managers, and technical team leaders.
• Preparing end-to-end architectural solutions meeting client requirements and company standards.
• Decomposing systems into smaller components and agreeing on changes and extensions.
• Communicating architectural and technical aspects to clients and internal teams.
• Defining technical scope and execution for subcontractors.
• Answering technical questions and making architectural decisions.
• Coordinating, supervising, and accepting subcontractor work technically.
• Executing or coordinating cross-team technical tasks (e.g., environment design, deployment planning).
• Providing architectural support during design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance phases.
• Preparing technical project documentation and coordinating documentation creation.
• Working with project manager on scheduling, workload estimation, and dependencies.
• Technical oversight of project progress and identifying/managing technical risks.
• Participating in offer preparation and cost estimation for budgeting.
• Maintaining strong knowledge of CloudFerro’s solutions and technology trends.