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

GFT Technologies SE; Łódź; Hybrid; PLN 335,000 - 513,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Medical and life insurance

Online training and certifications

Work From Anywhere up to 140 days/year

Job summary

GFT Technologies SE in Łódź seeks a Principal Solution Architect to translate business requirements into secure, scalable software solutions for a greenfield digital bank project in the UAE. You will lead architectural decisions, drive cloud-native, domain-driven, and event-driven design, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to ensure delivery excellence.

You will guide integration patterns, microservices, and production readiness, while supporting pre‑sales activities and shaping offerings

Qualifications

• Fluent Polish and English language skills required.
• Experience in designing and building software solutions using modern architectures and technologies.
• Experience with public cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Expert knowledge of CI/CD, Agile, and enterprise architecture.

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 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 pre‑sales activities and contribute to proposals and offering materials.
• Capture and share architecture best practices across the solution architecture community.

Skills

Polish language

English language

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Agile

Enterprise architecture

Microservices

Kubernetes

Kafka

API gateways

Security

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

Type of contract: Employment contract

Salary range: 30000 - 46000 PLN gross

What will you do?

As a Principal Solution Architect, 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

We offer

• Hybrid work in one of our locations: Lodz, Poznan, Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw (2 office days per week)
• Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team
• Benefit package tailored to your needs (medical, sport, lunch subsidy, life insurance, etc.)
• Online training and certifications
• Access to e-learning platform
• Work From Anywhere (up to 140 days/year abroad)
• Social events