Principal Solution Architect Consultant (Łódź, PL, 90-118)

GFT Technologies SE; Łódź; On-site; PLN 372,000 - 482,000; Full time

Job summary

GFT Technologies SE in Poland seeks a Principal Solution Architect Consultant to advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable software solutions. Lead technical engagements, drive architectural decisions, and ensure successful delivery of strategic initiatives in a cloud-native, domain-led, event-driven environment.

You will define target architectures, roadmaps, and patterns for microservices and distributed systems; collaborate with senior business and

Qualifications

• Polish and English fluency is a mandatory requirement.

Responsibilities

• Advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable software solutions.

Skills

Polish and English fluency

Modern software design

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Enterprise architecture

Microservices design

Kubernetes

Kafka

Infrastructure as code

Service mesh

API gateways

Security & resilience

Stakeholder management

Architecture leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

API gateways

Service mesh

Logging/Monitoring

Job description

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.

Your tasks

• 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

Your skills

• Polish and English language proficiency at a fluent level is a mandatory requirement for this role
• 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 designing microservices architectures
• 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
• Experience building digital banking platforms
• Experience delivering cloud-native transformation programs