Solutions Architect - Team Lead

Grand Parade; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 279,000 - 446,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid private healthcare

Life assurance

Wellbeing events

Free parking

Multisport pass

Extra day off for your birthday

Free English and Polish classes

Job summary

Grand Parade is seeking a Team Lead Solution Architect in Kraków, Poland. You will lead and mentor a team of architects, ensuring the delivery of scalable, high-quality solutions. The ideal candidate has proven experience in high-scale environments, excellent stakeholder management skills, and deep expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS and microservices. This role offers hybrid work, competitive salary, private healthcare, and additional perks like a Multisport pass and birthday leave.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect in high‑scale, complex environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Expert understanding of Cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of 4–6 Solution Architects, setting clear expectations and standards.
• Overseeing end‑to‑end solution architecture across multiple domains.
• Acting as an escalation point for complex architectural challenges.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Stakeholder Management

Cloud Platforms (AWS)

Microservices

Agile Methodologies

Job description

Job Description

Join us at evoke plc, as a Team Lead Solution Architect! Here you'll lead a team of Solution Architects across multiple domains, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and robust solutions aligned to business needs.

What you will be doing:

• Leading, mentoring, and developing a team of 4–6 Solution Architects across multiple domains, setting clear expectations, goals, and standards for architectural excellence. You'll foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement, driving consistency in ways of working, tools, and architectural practices.
• Overseeing the end‑to‑end solution architecture across 3–6 domains and ensuring solutions are aligned with business objectives and delivered to a high standard. You'll support and guide architects in defining solution designs, system interactions, non‑functional requirements (performance, scalability, security).
• Acting as escalation point for complex architectural challenges and providing deep technical input where needed.
• Ensuring adherence to architectural standards, principles, and best practices whilst reviewing and approving solution designs where required. You'll drive consistency and reuse across domains.
• Identifying and managing technical debt and trade‑offs while supporting governance processes and ensuring solutions are fit‑for‑purpose and compliant.
• Working closely with engineering teams, product managers, and delivery leads, translating business needs into clear architectural direction, communicating solutions effectively to both technical and non‑technical audiences, and building excellent working relationships across mid‑level stakeholders.
• Supporting Lead Architects / Head of Architecture in executing technology strategy and roadmaps, while contributing domain‑level insights to inform strategic decisions and ensuring alignment between long‑term architecture vision and short‑term delivery.
• Remaining technically engaged, contributing to solution design for complex or critical initiatives, leading key design workshops and architecture discussions.

Qualifications

• We are committed to responsible gambling, and we are looking for people who can support our ethos.
• Proven experience as a Solution Architect in high‑scale, complex environments with experience leading or mentoring architects or senior engineers.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with experience designing scalable, high‑performance, distributed systems.
• Expert understanding of Cloud platforms (preferably AWS), microservices and event‑driven architectures, APIs, integrations, and data flows.
• Experience working in Agile environments with cross‑functional teams and ability to balance technical depth with leadership responsibilities.

What we offer

• Financial: You’ll be compensated a competitive base salary and benefits.
• Healthcare: We prioritise your health and well‑being, offering fully paid private healthcare via Lux Med.
• Life assurance: Safeguarding your financial future and offering peace of mind with a company‑sponsored life assurance plan.
• Wellbeing events: Including workshops, webinars; Psychological Helpline for you and your loved ones; access to psychological platforms such as Unmind.
• Social activities: We love a chance to share knowledge and have fun, coordinating meetups, quality questions events and hackathons.
• Free parking: You’ll have access to underground parking space for cars, motorcycles and bikes.
• Other perks: Fully paid Multisport pass or MyBenefit cafeteria points, employee referral program, and an extra day off for your birthday. We also offer free English and Polish classes for our colleagues.
• Hybrid working: Our employees can work from home up to 80% of the time with 20% of office time built in to ensure we get some face‑to‑face collaborative team time.

Equal Opportunity

At evoke, we prioritise diversity, equity, and inclusion for the benefit of our company, employees, and communities. We foster a welcoming and safe workplace that values all forms of diversity and provides opportunities for growth.