Solution Architect - Language/Translation

deepl; Austin (NY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual leave

Hybrid work schedule

Virtual Shares

Regular team events

Monthly hack days

Competitive benefits

Job summary

deepl is looking for a Solution Architect to join their global solution consulting team. This role involves engaging with customers to transform their localization workflows and ensuring the integration of DeepL solutions. You will leverage your expertise in language technology and AI to shape client strategies and improve operational efficiency.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in solution architecture within the language tech or enterprise SaaS sectors and be fluent in English, with additional language skills preferred. The company offers a hybrid work model with flexible hours and numerous employee benefits.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years in Solution Architecture or Technical Pre-Sales.
• Strong familiarity with modern AI and localisation stacks.
• Workflow-transformational mindset for enterprise content pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Engage with localization program managers and stakeholders.
• Map current workflows and propose DeepL-centric solutions.
• Lead technical validation and architecture reviews.

Skills

Solution Architecture

AI and localisation technology

Security and compliance

Enterprise SaaS experience

Project management

Fluency in English

Additional languages (German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese)

Tools

Translation Management Systems

REST/webhook API

MT API integration

Job description

Position Overview

As a Solution Architect on our global solution consulting team, you’ll sit at the intersection of enterprise translation strategy, localisation technology, and complex deal execution. You’ll shape how DeepL is positioned with respect to language and/or translation service providers, design future language AI workflows, and help build the playbooks that scale what works across the broader GTM team.

You understand modern AI stacks and language customization and localisation as a whole—governance, glossary‑management, QA workflows, post‑editing—and can navigate a conversation between a Localization Manager and a Head of Engineering without losing either.

Your responsibilities

• Get inside the customer’s world and engage confidently with localization program managers, language operations leads, IT architects, and procurement stakeholders. Understand their content volumes, language pairs, translation management system setup, language service provider relationships, and where their current stack is failing them. Translate that into a clear picture of where DeepL creates the most impact.
• Map the workflow transformation: create the before‑and‑after. Map a customer’s current manual‑heavy processes and fragmented localisation state against a DeepL‑centric future—demonstrating how processes get streamlined and deliver efficiency and productivity gains to the business overall.
• Lead technical validation: design and run high‑impact POCs and architecture reviews that prove translation quality, integration feasibility, and operational efficiency. Speak authoritatively on security posture, compliance architecture, and governance to risk‑averse IT and procurement audiences.
• Shape the practice and the product: establish and refine playbooks—discovery frameworks, architecture templates, ROI models, and automation recipes—that elevate the broader GTM team. Feed structured field insight back to Product and Engineering and turn customer challenges into roadmap influence.

Qualities we look for

• 7‑10+ years in Solution Architecture, Solution Consulting, or Technical Pre‑Sales—ideally within language technology, localisation, or enterprise SaaS or system integration environments.
• Strong familiarity with modern AI and localisation stacks—MCP, CLI, Claude code, TMS, MT API integration patterns, MT workflows, CMS integrations, and REST/webhook API architecture. You don’t need to have built all of these, but you need to know how they fit together and where they break.
• A workflow‑transformational mindset—think in before‑and‑after states, map a complex enterprise content pipeline, and know how to make the case for changing something an organisation has relied on for years.
• Solid understanding of the LSP model—how language service providers operate, buy, and resell MT technology.
• Security and compliance fluency—comfortable discussing data residency, security posture, and governance frameworks with IT and legal audiences in regulated industries.
• Strong enterprise instincts—navigated localisation program managers, IT architects, and C‑level buyers in the same deal. Simplify complexity and make a platform transformation feel achievable.
• Fluency in English mandatory; additional language proficiency in German, French, Spanish, Italian, or Japanese strongly preferred given our customer base.

What we offer

• Diverse and internationally distributed team: join a global community of more than 90 nationalities, with employees based in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the US, and Japan, and a worldwide presence that continues to expand.

• Open communication, regular feedback: value clear, honest communication, smooth collaboration, and actionable feedback, while leading with empathy and a growth mindset.

• Hybrid work, flexible hours: a hybrid schedule with office visits twice a week and flexible working hours that complement each other’s time zones for effective collaboration.

• Virtual Shares: an ownership mindset for every role, giving each employee Virtual Shares that tie your contribution directly to DeepL’s growth.

• Regular in‑person team events: local team and business‑unit gatherings, new‑joiner onboardings, and company‑wide events that bring us all together.

• Monthly full‑day hacking sessions: Hack Fridays allow you to spend time on passion projects and collaborate across teams.

• 30 days of annual leave: 30 days off (excluding public holidays) and access to mental‑health resources for holistic wellbeing.

• Competitive benefits: tailored to support employees globally, aligned with your unique location and personal needs.

We are an equal opportunity employer

You are welcome at DeepL for who you are – we appreciate authenticity here. Our product is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all succeed, contribute, and think forward. Bring us your experience, perspectives, and background; it’s in our diversity that we will find the power to break down language barriers in the world.