Principal Solution Architect Consultant

GFT Technologies Poland; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

GFT Technologies Poland seeks a Principal Solution Architect Consultant to translate business requirements into secure, scalable software solutions. You will lead architectural decisions for a UAE-based greenfield digital bank, driving cloud-native, domain-led, event-driven, and API-first approaches while collaborating with senior business and technology stakeholders.

You will guide integration patterns, microservices, and distributed systems, ensure production readiness, and support sales with

Qualifications

• Experience designing secure, scalable software architectures.
• Strong communication with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Proven track record in cloud-native, API-first projects.
• Familiarity with governance and enterprise standards.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Cloud-native

Domain-driven

Event-driven

API-first

AI-native architecture

Kubernetes

Kafka

Infrastructure as Code

Service mesh

API gateways

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Infrastructure as Code

API gateways

Service mesh

Job description

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