Principal Solution Architect Consultant
Summary
The Principal Solution Architect Consultant will design and lead the implementation of a cloud-native, event-driven digital banking platform for a UAE client. The role involves advising stakeholders, defining architectural roadmaps, and overseeing the delivery of secure, scalable software solutions.
Type of contract: B2B contract
Salary range: 270 - 350 PLN/H
What will you do?
As a Principal Solution Architect Consultant, you will advise stakeholders and translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable software solutions. You will play a key role in designing and delivering a next generation greenfield digital bank in the UAE based on a cloud-native, domain-led, event-driven, API-first, and AI-native architecture. You will lead technical engagements, drive architectural decisions, and ensure successful implementation of strategic solutions while collaborating with senior business and technology stakeholders.
Your tasks
- Design secure, scalable, and reliable software solutions aligned with business requirements
- Define target architectures and technology roadmaps for strategic initiatives
- Lead technical discussions with stakeholders and client representatives
- Drive adoption of cloud-native, domain-driven, event-driven, and API-first architectural principles
- Support architecture governance and ensure alignment with enterprise standards
- Design integration patterns, microservices, and distributed systems architectures
- Provide guidance on production readiness, resilience, security, monitoring, and observability
- Collaborate with engineering teams throughout solution implementation
- Support sales initiatives and contribute to proposals and offering materials
- Capture and share architecture best practices across the solution architecture community
Your skills
- Experience in designing and building software solutions using modern architectures and technologies
- Experience working with public cloud platforms, preferably Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Expert knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices
- Expert knowledge of Agile principles and methodologies
- Expert knowledge of enterprise architecture, infrastructure, and integration patterns
- Experience designing microservices architectures
- Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, Kafka, infrastructure as code, service mesh, and API gateways
- Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, logging, monitoring, and other non-functional requirements
- Advanced knowledge of networking, virtualization, identity management, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data management, budgeting, and governance
- Ability to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work independently with senior stakeholders
- Experience supporting pre-sales activities and creating offering materials
- Experience leading and managing architects, engineers, or cross-functional technology teams
Nice to have
- Experience in the financial services industry
- Experience with Domain-Driven Design
- Experience with event-driven architectures
- Experience with data-centric architectures
- Experience building digital banking platforms
- Experience delivering cloud-native transformation programs