Solution Architect

Quick Facts

• Role: Solution Architect

• Focus: SharePoint technologies, enterprise software architecture, and systems integration

• Contract: B2B

• Rate: 430–470 EUR/MD

• Work model: Hybrid (Warsaw)

• Benefits: Co-financing of private medical care and sports packages

Description

As a Solutions Architect for a defence-sector project supporting a European Union organization, you will design and maintain software architectures and ensure they meet performance, security, and quality expectations throughout the lifecycle. You will gather and analyse business, user, and technical requirements, translate them into architectural solutions, and define architectural standards and interoperability.

Responsibilities

• Define standards for system design, development, quality, and testing

• Design, document, and communicate system architectures

• Design interoperability and interfaces with other systems

• Gather and analyse business, user, and technical requirements

• Translate business and technical needs into architectural solutions

• Map business goals, benefits, priorities, and system components/features

• Analyse existing systems and identify solution options

• Maintain and track architecture throughout the system lifecycle

• Estimate and size software development activities

• Contribute to system design, testing, quality assurance, and change management

• Prepare technical documentation and deliver presentations

• Lead development teams and development processes

• Select and evaluate technologies

• Collect and interpret system metrics; optimize for performance, security, and quality

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of relevant professional IT experience (commercial experience after graduation; study periods do not count)

• Minimum 5 years of project experience relevant to the profile or in a similar position

• Key architect experience developing at least 2 software systems

• Master-level knowledge of system architecture for the relevant domain and enterprise software

• Expertise in system capacity and security planning

• Expert knowledge of UML design

• Expert knowledge of development methodologies/lifecycles/standards (RUP, ISO 12207, Agile)

• Proficiency with system modelling tools (e.g., Sparx Enterprise Architect, ARIS Architect, or equivalent)

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in IT, Computer Science, or another ICT-related field

• At least 2 certifications (e.g., TOGAF Certified, Certified UML Professional Foundation Level, or equivalent accepted by the authority)

• English at B2 level

• EU citizenship mandatory

Technical Requirements

• Expert-level knowledge of SharePoint and SharePoint platform-specific tools

• Extensive experience in designing and planning software systems

• Technical knowledge of databases, application servers, communication middleware, web servers, GIS services, and directory services

• System security on Microsoft platforms

• Business Intelligence (BI) concepts

• Systems integration and IDEs

• Ability to work across different technologies and platforms

Benefits

• Co-financing of private medical care

• Co-financing of sports packages