Solution Architect

Ciklum; United States; Remote; USD 47,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Luxmed medical package

Udemy access & company-paid training

MyBenefit cafeteria platform

Company-paid certifications

Remote work flexibility

Job summary

Ciklum is seeking a skilled Solution Architect to join a Poland-based team as a full-time role. You will drive architecture across cross-functional teams, focusing on data management, cloud technologies, and ERP-like processes that improve client operations.

The work includes trade-off analysis, PoC development, and architecture governance. The role requires deep experience in software development, solution architecture, and SDLC, with strong communication skills for stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience in software development
• Commercial experience in solution architecture design
• Experience with data management, data integration, and data transformation
• Understanding of containerization and orchestration
• Understanding SDLC processes and their reasoning
• Experience with guiding software development, testing, deployment, and project management
• Excellent knowledge in Computer Science, Computing Theory
• Database theory
• Code testing practices
• Cloud technologies (Microsoft Azure)
• Databases: DBMS, Microsoft SQL, MongoDB
• Strong client-facing and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Identify key business stakeholders and establish communication
• Identify business goals and objectives
• Gather functional, quality requirements and constraints
• Elaborate architectures mapping business, information, and technology
• Propose architecture vision and trade-offs with PoC and benchmarking
• Set up architecture design and documentation processes
• Document architecture decisions and trade-offs for stakeholders
• Review and validate design decisions and ensure alignment with vision

Skills

Solution architecture

Cloud technologies

Azure

Data integration

SDLC

Pre-sales

Lead delivery

Client-facing

Tools

Microsoft SQL

MongoDB

Databricks

DBMS

Job description

Ciklum is looking for a Solution Architect to join our team full-time in Poland.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Solution Architect, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. Ciklum is building a team to work on various projects whose primary goal to improve and automate the customer’s business processes, reduce the time and effort required for various operations.

Client for this project is the largest professional services network in the world by revenue and number of professionals. Client provides audit, tax, consulting, enterprise risk, and financial advisory services worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Identify key business stakeholders and establish communication with
• Identify business goals and objectives
• Gather primary functionality, quality characteristics of software behavior and given constraints
• Elaborate business, information, and technology architectures mapping
• An elaborate architecture vision that satisfies architecturally significant requirements, through trade-off analysis, proof of concept implementation, and benchmarking
• Set up and manage architecture design and documentation processes
• Document and communicate architecture decisions and trade-offs to major stakeholders
• Review and validate design decisions made by down streams and ensure they do satisfy the solution architecture vision

Requirements:

• Commercial experience in software development (more than 7 years)
• Commercial experience in solution architecture design (more than 3 years)
• Experience with data management, data integration, and data transformation approaches
• Understanding of containerization and orchestration
• Understanding SDLC processes and their reasoning
• Experience with guiding software development, testing, deployment, and project management
• Excellent knowledge in Computer Science, Computing Theory
• Database theory
• Code testing practices
• Practical experience with
• Cloud technologies (Microsoft Azure)
• DBMS
• Microsoft SQL
• MongoDB
• Business skills:
• Excellent client-facing, business consulting, and communication skills
• Ability to efficiently communicate verbally and visually
• Ability to explain and prove the differences, pros and cons of suggested design decisions
• Ability to influence senior client decision makers
• Develop long-lasting relationships with business and technical stakeholders
• Leading and supporting medium to large size solution delivery projects
• Analysis of business, product and technology requirements
• Certifications on:
• Experience with
• Release Management tools & Configuration Management tools
• Infrastructure as a code tools
• Experience in Pre-sales, Proposal/Bid preparation
• Databricks experience is a plus

Personal skills:

• Ability to relate positively to and engage with a wide range of people
• Strong self-motivation, reliable and flexible team-player. High attention to details
• Always seeking to improve processes and suggest alternative better solutions
• Be ready to embrace change, be flexible

What’s in it for you?

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands‑on experience with cutting‑edge technologies
• Flexibility: Enjoy flexibility - full remote working possibilities
• Care: We've got you covered with company-paid premium medical package through Luxmed
• Benefits: Access the MyBenefit cafeteria platform, allowing you to choose perks that best suit your lifestyle and needs

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting‑edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

With delivery centers in Wrocław and Gdańsk, our 300+ professionals in Poland drive forward-thinking solutions for global clients. Join a community where collaboration sparks innovation—and your impact reaches millions.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!