Solutions Architect
CREATEQ, Moldova

You will:

Join our agile distributed team of Software Engineers, Product Managers, Designers and key business stakeholders to help define the shape of the products from building platform capabilities on microservices to building mobile applications and web experiences. The vision: making zero-carbon happen!

Your key responsibilities include:

• Working across technical departments, providing solutions and architectural direction to enable the Zero Carbon Living mission
• Asses the area’s technology architecture to refine and rationalise, set the standard for future technology and support alignment between business and technical strategies
• Definition, oversight, implementation, and management of the application-wide technology architecture
• Perform architectural design, consultancy and decisions for complex development initiatives
• Provide and document solution designs for a variety of audiences and stakeholders
• Implement prototypes/spikes when necessary to prove a technology or approach is suited
• Provide high level estimates for initiatives to contribute to effort versus impact and to assist with which squad owns the work
• Facilitate build vs. buy decisions
• Work closely with various stakeholders (Engineering Management, Product Management, Enterprise Architecture, etc) to understand the vision across the domains and facilitate the technology and solutions alignment to the organisation's goals
• Work with the engineering teams to define coding best practices and standards and provide guidance and governance to engineers to ensure they are adhered to. Raise the bar on technical excellence
• Advocate Agile and DevOps best practice adoption so that we move towards CI/CD
• Participate in sprint planning where necessary to provide additional information on user stories to help the engineers estimate
• Build strong relationships with engineering squads, ensuring direction or provided but still enabling the squads to collaborate and input into overarching solutions.

Requirements

Who we are looking for:

Our future colleagues should have an attitude of ownership, commitment to deliver, a desire to make an impact, and a collaborative mindset. They have demonstrated experience as Solutions Architects and are passionate about technology, best-in-class user experiences and system design, eager to join our technical team and help build customer-facing products that are resilient, secure, and scale.

The following key skills and experience are required:

• Hands on technical skills with a background working as, or closely with, engineers in a cross-functional agile team
• Proven track record in the architectural field, with focus on event driven design and microservices
• Proven track record in cloud technologies and transition of legacy estate to cloud - where it is right to do so
• Proven track record of transforming technical estates by simplifying and rationalising, setting a clear architectural direction
• Proven background defining technology strategy and architecting solutions across Application, Data, Product and Technology Architecture
• Experience working with CRM technologies such as Salesforce or Zoho
• Collaborative approach, to help bring others on a journey, guide and mentor where necessary
• Adaptability and flexibility when dealing with change and ambiguity
• Ability to interpret and communicate information in a clear and concise manner to others (technical/non-technical team members etc.)
• Open and friendly personality, excellent interpersonal and team-working skills as well as a problem-solving mindset and self-improve skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Bachelor or higher degree in computer science (or equivalent).

Benefits

• Challenging projects in a highly professional, but also a collaborative and supportive environment
• Working in small and excellently skilled teams
• Opportunity for long-term professional growth within our development center
• Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
• Respect and support for your professional, family and personal goals.

Job Rewards and Benefits