Solution/Application Architect

Summary

Join ELEKS Software Architecture Office as a Solution Architect in Poland or Croatia! Work with a British innovative energy company focused on renewable power generation. You will elicit business and technical requirements, define solution architecture, and provide development effort estimates. Responsibilities include reengineering and documenting architectures, supporting pre-sales activities, defining implementation roadmaps, and mentoring other architects. The role requires 3+ years of experience as a Software Architect, experience with .Net, strong documentation skills using DSL, and high proficiency in English. You'll enjoy close customer cooperation, challenging tasks, competence development, and a dynamic team environment.

Requirements

• 3+ years of proven experience as a Software Architect
• Experience with .Net
• Strong documenting skills using DSL (domain Specific language) like C4/UML
• Awareness of viewpoints and their audiences
• Awareness of Architecture Governance, ability to capture and explain decisions and their dependencies
• Data Architecture skills, ability to document schemas
• Technical ability to interrogate systems for information that inform design or willingness to chase required down if other have access to it
• High level appreciation of typical integration patterns their non-function characteristics
• High proficiency in English, communication and adaptability will be key

Responsibilities

• Elicit business and technical requirements from the business clients
• Define a solution architecture guided by the architectural drivers such as business and functional requirements, constraints, and quality attributes
• Provide ball-park development effort estimates based on the standard estimation methodologies
• Reengineer, document, review, and analyze solution architectures using trade-off analysis methodology and other qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis
• Support the Engagement team in pre-sales providing the technical expertise, architecture vision, and estimates
• Define implementation road maps and technical backlogs
• Drive the project bootstrap cooperating with the development team and passing the knowledge and architectural vision to them
• Support long-term projects from the architectural perspective making and reviewing design decisions, documenting the architecture, communicating with the client’s technical peers, participating in creation of the PoC and prototypes, and collaborating with the development teams
• Choose among the technologies, reference architectures, and patterns and evaluate the candidate solutions based on the objective drivers, constraints, and criteria
• Train, mentor, and coach other architects and technical leaders
• Participate in technical marketing of the company, represent the company’s architectural excellence including article publishing, participation in events, and presenting to the customers
• Participate in the methodology and competence development within SAG

Benefits

• Close cooperation with a customer
• Challenging tasks
• Competence development
• Team of professionals
• Dynamic environment with a low level of bureaucracy