Solutions Architect

• Own design, implementation, & enhancement responsibility for the OM and/or DM backend components, including applications, APIs, and integrations.
• Adapt guidelines and principles with IT security, Enterprise architecture.
• Be an interface between third party software vendors and OM DM team for architectural or design areas.
• Ensure adherence to architectural standards and best design practices.
• Analyze incoming change requests/ demands to OM DM applications collaborating with SME and Business Analyst.
• Ensure new feature and components are developed in line of the OM DM Solution Architecture.
• Conduct system tests and driving technical improvements while adapting for services and interfaces based on evolving requirements.
• Design documentation for components for existing and newly built architectures.
• Collaborate with DBAs & DevOps team members to address and prevent system-level health and operational issues.
• Coordinate with development & testing teams to enhance overall technical quality by clearing technical debts.
• Own the OM DM system-level architecture in collaboration with subject matter experts (SMEs) from head office.
• Work closely with solution architect(s) for design analysis, reviews, & validation of architectural changes.
• Serve as a backup domain SME to prevent single points of failure in domain expertise.
• Coach developers on best practices related to design patterns, clean architecture, cloud-native, and microservices.

General description:

As a "Solution Architect" in Output Management (OM) & Document Management (DM), your role will play a critical part in achieving business success through reliable and efficient output & document management systems. You will be part of the Digital Document Services team ensuring proper system design for the applications which are used as core interface the biggest transport management systems e.g., for air & ocean business. You will be part of an international product management team located in Warsaw/Poland and Essen & Frankfurt/Germany.

This role is expected to:

• Drive system level technical design implementation of legacy and greenfield components.
• Have constant focus on architectural best practices for solving scalability, availability and security areas in OM and DM applications.
• Collaborate with product administration and management peers.
• Ensure consistency and quality in the digital document services landscape.
• Work closely with different Solution architects, other System Architects, Lead developer and development team as well as Product Managers to enhance stability and drive improvements.

We offer:

Work at the office 1 day / week (Warsaw)

Employment Contract: Annual Bonus, Holiday Bonus, Language Courses, Life insurance, Medical healthcare package, Pension Program (PPE), Professional Development, Sport Card, Work-life Balance, Working Internationally

B2B contract: Payd leave

• University degree in computer science, IT or equivalent.
• 3-4 years of experience in architect roles (e.g solution architect, technical architect or software architect) with an overall minimum technical/IT experience of 8-12 years.
• Must have expertise with the Java ecosystem with hands on experience in technical Spring boot, JMS, JAX
• Experience in asynchronous backend design (Pub-Sub) such as SQS, KAFKA or RabbitMQ is required.
• Experience on design implementation JAVA backends on Onion / Clean architecture.
• Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2, RDS, EFS, SNS SQS, S3 is Required.
• Experience with serverless frameworks e.g. Lambda, Fargate is nice to have.
• Experience with ELK and Prometheus for application log and metrics monitoring.
• Experience with microservice patterns (such as Domain Driven, Event Driven, and CQRS) is valuable.
• Good knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS), containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Familiarity with database design best practices and performance analysis.
• Experience in designing & aligning system interface documentation to ensure clarity and consistency.
• Business fluency in both written and spoken English is a must.
• Strong at effective cross-cultural communication with an international & collaborative mindset.
• Knowledge about agile software delivery methodologies along with experience of handling development tickets in Jira & documentation in Confluence like tools.

Optional Requirements:

• Logistic business knowledge
• Working experience in an international environment.