Principal Architect

SimCorp operates in the FinTech industry, focusing on financial technology solutions and serving prestigious financial clients.

• Experience building integration testing capabilities for service-based architectures at scale, ideally in a B2B or SaaS context.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service, and strong background in .NET.
• Knowledge of testing strategies, including black/grey/white box testing, consumer-driven contract testing, integration layering, pipeline governance, and quality gates.
• Practical experience with synthetic data approaches, data masking, and designing environments for testability.
• Experience optimizing cost-of-testing, including shift-left patterns and formulating tradeoffs adhering to economic testing approaches.
• Automation-first mindset with a track record of improving lead-time for changes, minimizing escaped defects, reducing failure rates, and increasing recovery speed.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, ability to drive consensus across platform, application, Site Reliability Engineering, and product teams, and remain resilient in complex or ambiguous situations.
• Experience with performance, load testing, resilience testing, or security testing integration is a plus.
• Exposure to compliance frameworks such as Service Organization Control 2 (SOC2) or Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is beneficial but not required.
• Experience curating recommended practices and developer experience artifacts is valued.

Integration testing platform:

• Design and deliver a shared platform for integration testing of SimCorp One services (Microsoft Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service, .NET), enabling teams to add, run, and automate cross-system tests efficiently and repeatedly.

Quality gates:

• Operationalize post-merge quality gates for release candidates, including contract and application programming interface testing, integration suites, sanity and smoke tests, and define the process for exceptions or waivers.

Drive requirements:

• Help standardize testing capabilities in the ecosystem and define how systems can test integration patterns.

Adoption and enablement:

• Drive organization-wide adoption through templates, reference implementations, and recommended practices that teams can extend.

Test data and environments:

• Define the strategy for test data and environments, including synthetic data, data masking, and production-equivalent snapshots in collaboration with operations and platform teams.

Performance and load testing:

• Lay the groundwork for performance and load testing as a future phase, including tooling choices, service level agreements, and monitoring.

Documentation and alignment:

• Document and align at scale by authoring reference architecture documents, patterns, and playbooks; publishing via the Architecture Hub; and measuring adoption and impact.

Community leadership:

• Be a key driver in the Testing Technical Collaboration Council, collaborating daily with platform and application architects, product owners, product managers, and value streams.

Decision rights and alignment:

• Have architectural decision rights and ensure alignment with adjacent core areas, including security, compliance, Site Reliability Engineering, and product.

Testing review:

• Be responsible for reviewing the testing strategy of systems as part of the architectural review of systems and services.

Enablement and scaling:

• Build foundations and guidelines for other teams to scale; documentation and alignment are essential.

Coaching and enablement:

• Dedicate time to coaching and enablement of Tech Leads and Engineering teams, focusing on architecture decisions and design.

Applications must be submitted in English. The approximate time to consider the CV is three weeks. The employer values feedback during the recruitment process. The role is available with occasional remote work across Poland and internationally, subject to internal policy.