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Bulgaria Remote Solution Architects

Solution Architect

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Description

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

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 which primary goal to improve and automate the customer’s business processes, reduce time and efforts, 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
  • Elaborate architecture vision which satisfies architecturally significant requirements through trade-off analysis, proof of concepts implementation, benchmarking
  • Set up and manage architecture design and documentation processes
  • Document and communicate architecture decision and trade-offs to major stakeholders
  • Review and validate design decisions made by downstreams and ensure they do satisfy solution architecture vision

Requirements

  • Fluent English
  • 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:
    • Architectural & Design Patterns
    • Algorithms
    • Paradigm & Principles
    • Database theory
    • Code testing practices
    • Practical experience with:
    • Microservices architecture
    • Cloud technologies (Microsoft Azure):
      • Azure DevOps
      • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
      • Azure Databricks
      • Azure Service Bus
    • DBMS:
      • Microsoft SQL
      • MongoDB
    • .NET Core 3
  • Business skills:
    • Excellent client facing, business consulting and communication skills
    • Ability to efficiently communicate verbally and visually
    • Ability to explain and proof 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

Desirable

  • Certifications on:
    • Architecture framework (SEI, TOGAF, etc.)
    • Cloud providers (Microsoft Azure)
    • Delivery processes (SAFe, Agile, etc)
  • 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

  • Care: your health is our priority. We ensure comprehensive company-paid medical insurance, Multisport cards, as well as financial and legal consultations
  • Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy license, language courses and company-paid certifications
  • Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
  • Flexibility: Own your schedule – you are the one to decide when to start your working day. Just don’t miss your regular team stand-up
  • Opportunities: we value our specialists and always find the best options for them. Our Internal Mobility Program helps change a project if needed to help you grow, excel professionally and fulfill your potential
  • Global impact: work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients
  • Welcoming environment: feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company and regular team-building events

About us:
Ciklum entered Bulgaria in 2022 to expand its presence in Eastern Europe. We are ready to welcome bright talents.
Be a part of a big story created right now. Let’s grow our delivery center in Bulgaria together! Boost your skills and knowledge: create and innovate with like-minded professionals—all of that within a global company with a local spirit and start-up soul.

Be bold, not bored!

Experiences of tomorrow. Engineered together

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We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. Can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.

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