Solution Architect Lead – Continuous Integration Tribe

Kraków - Poland

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

Division: Group Technology Services (GTS)

About the Role

We are looking for a Solution Architect with strong transversal expertise in infrastructure SDLC (CI/CD) and middleware to help shape the future of Euroclears technology landscape. You will design robust scalable architectures ensure alignment with enterprise standards and act as a bridge between Enterprise Architecture CISO delivery teams and business stakeholders.

This role is key to driving architectural consistency supporting agile delivery and contributing to our Communities of Practice (SA COP) to share knowledge and best practices.

What Youll Do

Design & Blueprint:
Define system architectures standards guidelines and reusable design patterns ensuring strong resilient architectural patterns are applied across our epic solutions.
Collaborate & Influence:
Act as liaison between architects technical leads application owners and business teams.
Governance & Compliance:
Ensure adherence to architecture principles (patterns and standards) and trigger governance bodies when deviations occur.
Support Delivery:
Act as Feature Engineer for end-to-end design solutions meeting functional non-functional security and resilience requirements.
Prototype & Innovate:
Build proof-of-concepts to validate new architectural approaches.
Community Engagement:
Actively participate in SA COP and contribute to architectural knowledge sharing.
Agile Contribution:
Join ceremonies (e.g. backlog refinement sprint reviews) to provide architectural guidance.

Responsibilities

Deliver coherent IT solutions that meet both functional and non-functional requirements.
Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards and business needs.
Collaborates and provides input to Enterprise Architecture to shape future technology & technical components (brings hands-on experience).
Coordinate solution delivery across teams ensuring consistency and quality.
Conduct design reviews and provide feedback for technical and functional alignment.
Present solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Triggers escalation through design governance if needed.
Build prototypes and proof-of-concepts to validate new approaches.
Estimate implementation effort at the Tribe level.
Contributes from the Epicinitiation onward up & until the end of the warranty period after production release.
Identifies the need for generalization/standardization (beyond epic-specific solutions) defines solution patterns or engineering standards together with the design or engineering teams get them documented endorsed by the relevant authorities and published in catalogues.

Technologies We use

OS: Windows Linux
Middleware: IBM WebSphere MQ Confluent Kafka IBM Integration Bus API Management (IBM API Connect Azure API Management) IIS Service Fabric Managed File Transfer Java Application Servers (JBOSS Apache Tomcat WebSphere Liberty) Apache HTTP
Cloud: Azure services OpenShift AKS
Languages: .NET Java Python
CI/CD: Azure DevOps Artifactory Terraform ARM
Infrastructure as Code: Strong asset

What You Bring

1. Systems Architecture Design
Expertise in defining system architectures setting standards and creating reusable design patterns to ensure robust scalable and resilient solutions.

2. Feature Engineering
Ownership of end-to-end design solutions ensuring they meet all functional non-functional security and resilience requirements.

3. Stakeholder Management
Ability to build relationships and act as a liaison between architects technical leads application owners business teams and enterprise architecture ensuring alignment and collaboration.

4. Analytical Thinking
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to break down complex challenges and develop effective solutions.

5. Superb Communication
Clear empathetic and professional communicationboth verbal and writtenwith technical and non-technical stakeholders including active listening and assertiveness.

6. Agile Mindset
Comfortable working in agile environments participating in ceremonies and supporting delivery teams with architectural guidance.

7. Governance & Compliance
Ensuring adherence to architecture principles patterns and standards and triggering governance bodies when deviations occur.

8. Middleware Cloud & Integration Expertise
Hands-on experience with middleware technologies cloud platforms and integration tools to design and implement modern solutions.

9. Continuous Improvement
Proactively identifying opportunities for generalization standardization and process optimization and contributing to SA Communities of Practice.

10. Change Management & Adaptability
Ability to operate in a changing environment lead change initiatives and adapt quickly to new tools processes and priorities

Why Join Us

Be part of GTS Continuous Integration Tribe driving innovation and architectural excellence.
Collaborate with experts across SA COP and GCEB.
Work in a dynamic environment that values agility knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Please note that this is a permanent position and we do not offer freelance or contract arrangements for this role.

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DescriptionDivision: Group Technology Services (GTS)About the RoleWe are looking for a Solution Architect with strong transversal expertise in infrastructure SDLC (CI/CD) and middleware to help shape the future of Euroclears technology landscape. You will design robust scalable architectures ensure ...