German-speaking Solution Architect, #TSCM-41602

Eleks; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A custom software development company is seeking a Solution Architect to join its presales team in Canada. The role emphasizes pre-sales activities, technical solution design, and collaboration with business stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in software development, cloud technologies, and technical leadership. This position requires fluent English and native-level German for client communication. The company offers opportunities for competence development and involvement in challenging projects.

Benefits

Close cooperation with a customer

Business trips

Challenging tasks

Competence development

Dynamic environment with low bureaucracy

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software development.
• 3+ years of experience in technical leadership and software architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Elicit business and technical requirements from stakeholders.
• Define solution architecture guided by requirements and constraints.
• Provide ball-park estimates based on methodologies.
• Reengineer and document solution architectures.
• Support the Engagement team in pre-sales.
• Drive project bootstrap cooperating with the development team.
• Support long-term projects from an architectural perspective.

Skills

Software development (.Net/Java/JavaScript/Python)

Technical leadership

Cloud technologies (Azure or AWS)

Understanding of non-functional requirements

Fluent business English

German language proficiency

Job description

ELEKS is looking for a Solution Architect with pre-sales background in Germany.

In this position, you will become part of our dedicated presales team. The role is strategically focused on presales activities, where you will contribute significantly to designing technical solutions and defining solution vision for the German region.

During the presales process, you will take the lead on the technical components, delivering well-structured and comprehensive architectural designs. You will engage across multiple business domains, benefiting from diverse projects, quick context switching, and swift onboarding. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with both business stakeholders and technical teams, helping to bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions.

REQUIREMENTS

• 8+ years of experience in software development (.Net/Java/JavaScript/Python)
• 3+ years of experience in technical leadership and software architecture
• Strong hands‑on experience with cloud technologies (Azure or AWS preferred; Google Cloud is acceptable if open to reskilling)
• In‑depth understanding of non‑functional requirements (performance, security, scalability, maintainability) and solution design documentation
• Readiness to actively participate in presales engagements
• Familiarity with the ISO 25010 and NFRs gathering and validation
• Fluent business English
• German language proficiency at a native level (required for client communication)

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Elicit business and technical requirements from the business stakeholders
• Define a solution architecture guided by the architectural drivers such as business and functional requirements, constraints, quality attributes
• Provide ball‑park estimates based on the 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
• 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
• Travel onsite to perform the client consulting services

WHAT YOU WILL GET WITH ELEKS

• Close cooperation with a customer
• Business trips
• Challenging tasks
• Competence development
• Ability to influence project technologies
• Projects from scratch
• Team of professionals
• Dynamic environment with a low level of bureaucracy

ABOUT

ELEKS is a custom software development company. We deliver value to our clients, thanks to our expertise and experience gained from working as a software innovation partner since 1991.

Our 2000+ professionals located in the Delivery Centers across Eastern Europe and sales offices in Europe and North America, provide our clients with a full range of software engineering services. These include product development, QA, R&D, design, technology consulting and dedicated teams.