Technical Architect

Sopra Steria; Katowice; On-site; PLN 240,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading European tech company in Katowice is seeking a Technical Architect to design an open-source middleware platform aimed at enhancing data access and interoperability. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in solution architecture and security, and will collaborate across various initiatives. EU citizenship and Polish residence are required, along with Kubernetes and IAM proficiency. This role offers competitive pay and significant development opportunities.

Benefits

Luxmed healthcare

Life insurance

Educational platforms

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience in solution and integration architecture for distributed platforms.
• Hands-on experience with IAM, data sharing, cloud-native platforms, and DevSecOps practices.
• Ability to work across multiple organisations and teams, balancing governance, security, and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Deploy Kubernetes patterns and manage infrastructure-as-code.
• Ensure integration architecture consistency across initiatives.
• Develop operational playbooks and monitoring strategies.

Skills

Kubernetes literacy

Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)

GitOps and CI/CD knowledge

Observability concepts

Security architecture fundamentals

Network security basics

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Sopra Steria is one of the largest players in the tech industry in Europe, known for its consulting, digital services and software development. We operate in nearly 30 countries in the world, hiring more than 55,000 employees.

The Polish branch, as the Global Delivery Center, operates in Katowice since 2007 and has been growing ever since. Currently, our team consists of around 1,000 specialists.

Within the Digital Platform Services department, our teams specialize in areas such as cloud, operating systems, virtualization, databases, backup or storage, as well as networking and security. We also have 1st line support consultants who speak French and English, but also Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German.

The Application Services department is responsible for areas such as software development, data engineering, testing services, CRM, ITSM and ERP platform integrations, as well as application management for customers in Scandinavia, Benelux, France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK.

Job Description

We are looking for a Technical Architect to join the Sopra Steria Poland team responsible for a program that creates an open-source middleware platform. Its main goal is to support data access and interoperability in European data initiatives. It provides multiple compatible components, free to use, that adhere to a common standard of data quality and data sharing.

You will work with multi-party governance structures, heterogeneous technical stacks, and evolving EU-level standards and frameworks. Act as a solution and integration architect ensuring that Simpl-Open is applied consistently and effectively across three European initiatives with different domain constraints. Translate functional, governance, and non-functional needs into Simpl-Open-aligned architecture covering onboarding, publication and discovery, secure consumption, and operations.

Note that we can only offer cooperation to people who have EU citizenship, are located in Poland and are willing to commute to our office in Katowice Poland.

Responsibilities:

• Kubernetes literacy: deployment patterns, environment separation, configuration and secrets basics.
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform and/or Crossplane; configuration management (e.g., Ansible) as applicable.
• GitOps and CI/CD patterns: release automation and environment promotion (Argo CD familiarity is a plus).
• Observability: logs/metrics/traces concepts; dashboards and alerting (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/Loki patterns).
• Backup and restore readiness for platform components and operational continuity.
• Federated IAM: OIDC/OAuth2, identity provider federation, authentication federation, and attribute/role mapping.
• Mutual authentication and trust establishment: mTLS, certificate lifecycle basics, and governance-issued credentials where applicable.
• Security architecture fundamentals: least privilege, defence-in-depth, key management concepts, and secure communications design.
• Network security basics: segmentation, firewall/VPN concepts supporting secure exchanges.
• Architecture views per initiative: context, functional/logical, component, integration, and deployment views.
• Integration specifications: identity federation, policy model, connector and catalogue integration, interface contracts.
• Reference configurations and templates: IAM configuration patterns, policy templates, validation rules, onboarding guides.
• Operational playbooks: monitoring dashboards, alerting and log strategy, operational readiness checklists

Qualifications

Must have requirements:

• At least 4 years of experience in solution and integration architecture for distributed platforms (APIs, event‑driven integration, IAM, security controls).
• Hands‑on experience with at least two of the following: IAM (Keycloak or equivalent), data sharing/connector concepts (EDC familiarity is a plus), policy modelling, cloud‑native platforms (Kubernetes), and DevSecOps practices.
• Ability to work across multiple organisations and teams, balancing governance, security, and delivery pragmatism.
• Knowledge of catalogue and discovery engineering, including metadata modelling, lifecycle management, and discovery workflows.
• Knowledge of catalogue and discovery engineering search and discovery pattern, including query translation/adaptation, relevance constraints, and policy‑aware filtering.
• Knowledge of catalogue and discovery engineering connector architecture, including control‑plane vs data‑plane separation, asset registration, and policy‑gated transfer initiation.
• Knowledge of catalogue and discovery engineering contracting primitives, including negotiation workflows, contract state handling, and integration of policy with contractual artefacts.
• Being open to occasional business trips abroad and visits in our office in Katowice.

Additional Information

What we offer:

• BENEFITS (UoP): Luxmed, Medicover Sport, Worksmile, educational platforms, languages learning platform, referral bonus, copyrights, life insurance, workation.
• DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES (UoP and B2B): certifications (paid by the company), conferences, Tech Lunches, possibility to join our Communities (Project Management, Architecture, Security, Process Management, Leadership, AI and Cloud).

Recruitment process:

• A short phone call with a recruiter (30 min max).
• One‑hour long interview on Teams (with both general and technical questions).

Salary range:

• UOP: 18 000–22 000 PLN gross/month.
• B2B: 135–180 PLN/h net + VAT.
• All information about salary range and its additional components will be provided during the 1st stage of the recruitment process.

At our organization, we are committed to fighting against all forms of discrimination. We foster a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.