Solution Architect, Cloud & Infrastructure

WS Audiology Group; Poznań; On-site; PLN 280,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

WS Audiology Group is seeking a Senior Architect for Cloud & Infrastructure to shape the future of our global infrastructure, cloud, and hosting platforms. You will translate business priorities into roadmaps, architecture standards, and investment strategies to enable growth, resilience, and AI readiness.

You will lead cloud adoption, define target-state architecture, and partner with Security and EA teams to ensure secure-by-design platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise infrastructure and cloud with 5+ years in architecture/leadership.
• Proven track record of leading infrastructure modernization and cloud transformation in large organizations.
• Strong hybrid cloud expertise (Azure/AWS/GCP) and datacenter resilience.
• Hands-on IaC experience: Terraform, Bicep, Ansible or similar.
• Security focus: Zero Trust, IAM, and regulatory compliance (NIS2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA).
• Observability, monitoring, capacity management and SRE practices.
• Degree in Computer Science or IT; Azure certifications (Architect Expert, Administrator Associate) and ITIL 4 Foundation; TOGAF a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead cloud adoption, workload modernization, automation initiatives and infrastructure lifecycle improvements.
• Define the target-state architecture for cloud, hosting, datacenter and platform services, and review solution designs to ensure alignment with technology standards.
• Design and govern Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Cyber Recovery capabilities, ensuring critical services meet availability, recovery and enterprise risk requirements.
• Partner with Security and Enterprise Architecture teams to implement secure-by-design platforms and compliance controls, and support audits, risk assessments and governance activities.
• Present solutions, technical roadmaps and ROI analyses to stakeholders across Infrastructure, InfoSec and Application owners.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to infrastructure teams.
• Engage with external vendors, evaluate new technologies and support strategic investment decisions.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Hybrid cloud

Infrastructure as Code

Security & Zero Trust

Regulatory compliance

Observability & Monitoring

Leadership & mentoring

Vendor management

FinOps & AI readiness

English proficiency

Education

Degree in Computer Science / IT

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Bicep

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Driven by the passion to improve quality of people’s lives, WSA continues to grow as a market leader in the hearing aid industry. With our commitment to increase penetration in an underserved hearing care market, we want to accelerate our business transformation in order to reach more people, more effectively.

As Senior Architect, Cloud & Infrastructure, you will shape the future of WSA’s infrastructure, cloud and hosting platforms on a global scale. Reporting to the Director, Infrastructure Core Services, you will drive infrastructure modernization, cloud transformation, automation and enterprise resilience – making sure our critical business services stay secure, available and aligned with business and risk objectives. You will translate business priorities into technology roadmaps, architecture standards and investment strategies that enable long-term growth, operational excellence, and AI readiness.

What you will do

• Lead cloud adoption, workload modernization, automation initiatives and infrastructure lifecycle improvements, driving technical roadmaps and migration strategies

• Define the target-state architecture for cloud, hosting, datacenter and platform services, and review solution designs to ensure alignment with technology standards

• Design and govern Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Cyber Recovery capabilities, ensuring critical services meet availability, recovery and enterprise risk requirements

• Partner with Security and Enterprise Architecture teams to implement secure-by-design platforms and compliance controls, and support audits, risk assessments and governance activities

• Present solutions, technical roadmaps and ROI analyses to stakeholders across Infrastructure, InfoSec and Application owners

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to infrastructure teams

• Engage with external vendors, evaluate new technologies and support strategic investment decisions

What you bring

Experience

• Minimum 10 years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, cloud and datacenter services, including at least 5 years in an architecture or technical leadership role

• Proven track record of leading infrastructure modernization and cloud transformation initiatives in large, global organizations

• Strong expertise in hybrid cloud architecture (Azure/AWS/GCP), cloud governance, datacenter modernization, resilience engineering and disaster recovery

• Hands-on knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, Ansible or similar), automation frameworks and platform engineering principles

• Solid understanding of cybersecurity, Zero Trust architecture, identity and access management, and regulatory frameworks such as NIS2, ISO 27001, GDPR and HIPAA

• Experience implementing observability, monitoring, capacity management, service reliability and operational excellence practices

• Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field

• Must-have certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

• ITIL 4 Foundation certification; TOGAF Foundation or Certified is a plus

• Experience with FinOps and AI infrastructure readiness is highly desirable

• Fluent English, both written and spoken

Personal competencies

• Strategic thinker who can turn business priorities into clear, actionable technology roadmaps

• Strong communicator, able to present complex architecture and ROI to both technical and business audiences

• Collaborative partner who builds trust across Infrastructure, Security and Application teams

• Natural mentor who enjoys sharing knowledge and growing others

• Structured and quality-driven, with a strong sense of ownership

• Curious about new technologies and eager to drive innovation

The role involves occasional travel (approx. 1–10 days per year).

Who we are

At WSA, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

Sounds wonderful? We can't wait to hear from you.

WSA is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.