Principal Solution Architect Consultant

GFT TECHNOLOGIES SE; Łódź; Hybrid; PLN 372,000 - 482,000; Full time

Job summary

GFT Poland seeks a Principal Solution Architect Consultant to translate business requirements into secure, scalable software. You will lead architectural engagements for a cloud-native, domain-driven, event-driven, API-first digital banking project, collaborating with senior stakeholders.

You will drive technology roadmaps, guide production readiness, security and governance, and support pre-sales with offering materials in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Design secure, scalable software aligned with business requirements.
• Lead architectural discussions with stakeholders and client representatives.
• Drive adoption of cloud-native, domain-driven, event-driven and API-first principles.
• Experience with public cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP) and CI/CD practices.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture, security, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, scalable software solutions aligned with business needs.
• Define target architectures and technology roadmaps for strategic initiatives.
• Lead technical discussions with stakeholders and clients.
• Drive cloud-native and API-first architectural patterns.
• Ensure production readiness, security, monitoring, and observability.

Skills

Secure architectures

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

Kafka

CI/CD

Agile

Domain-driven design

Event-driven

API gateways

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Terraform

API design

Job description

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Date: Aug 24, 2026

Location: Łódź, PL, 90-118 Kraków, PL, 30-302 Poznań, WP, PL, 61-569 Warszawa, PL, 00-839

Working place: Hybrid

Working Location:

Type of contract: B2B contract

Salary range: 270 - 350 PLN/H

What will you do?

As a Principal Solution Architect Consultant, you will advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable software solutions. You will play a key role in designing and delivering a next generation greenfield digital bank in the UAE based on a cloud-native, domain-led, event-driven, API-first, and AI-native architecture. You will lead technical engagements, drive architectural decisions, and ensure successful implementation of strategic solutions while collaborating with senior business and technology stakeholders.

• Design secure, scalable, and reliable software solutions aligned with business requirements
• Define target architectures and technology roadmaps for strategic initiatives
• Lead technical discussions with stakeholders and client representatives
• Drive adoption of cloud-native, domain-driven, event-driven, and API-first architectural principles
• Support architecture governance and ensure alignment with enterprise standards
• Design integration patterns, microservices, and distributed systems architectures
• Provide guidance on production readiness, resilience, security, monitoring, and observability
• Collaborate with engineering teams throughout solution implementation
• Support sales initiatives and contribute to proposals and offering materials
• Capture and share architecture best practices across the solution architecture community
• Experience in designing and building software solutions using modern architectures and technologies
• Experience working with public cloud platforms, preferably Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Expert knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices
• Expert knowledge of Agile principles and methodologies
• Expert knowledge of enterprise architecture, infrastructure, and integration patterns
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, Kafka, infrastructure as code, service mesh, and API gateways
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, logging, monitoring, and other non-functional requirements
• Advanced knowledge of networking, virtualization, identity management, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data management, budgeting, and governance
• Ability to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work independently with senior stakeholders
• Experience supporting pre-sales activities and creating offering materials
• Experience leading and managing architects, engineers, or cross-functional technology teams

Nice to have

• Experience in the financial services industry
• Experience with Domain-Driven Design
• Experience with event-driven architectures
• Experience with data-centric architectures

We are GFT Poland. WE KNOW how to tackle complex issues with innovative approach to deliver the highest value. Our reputation has been built around one simple rule: we do not overpromise, WE DELIVER. We deliver to our employees, clients and partners. WE GROW as you grow, so investing in you is our business strategy. Caring for each other is our priority. WE CARE who you are, what you need, how you feel. WE CARE to smile, have fun and develop as human beings.

Why Choose GFT?

• A culture of top performance
• Deep tech IT engineering & consulting
• 1200 skilled & top-class experts
• 77% of the team are regular/senior
• Products that contribute to a sustainable world
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Ambitious projects, trainings and tools you need to flourish
• Google Cloud Partner of the Year - for going above and beyond for customers