Solution Architect

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 whose primary goal to improve and automate the customer’s business processes, reduce the time and effort 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
• An elaborate architecture vision that satisfies architecturally significant requirements, through trade-off analysis, proof of concept implementation, and benchmarking
• Set up and manage architecture design and documentation processes
• Document and communicate architecture decisions and trade-offs to major stakeholders
• Review and validate design decisions made by downstreams and ensure they do satisfy the 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
  • 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 10
• Business skills:
  • Excellent client-facing, business consulting, and communication skills
  • Ability to efficiently communicate verbally and visually
  • Ability to explain and prove the 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?

• Regular salary reviews based on performance
• Corporate events: webinars, offline parties, and meetups
• Internal Mobility Program
• Tailored education path (including full access to Udemy, certifications, etc.)
• 25 paid days off: 20 business days of vacation per calendar year + 5 undocumented sick leave days
• Additional health insurance
• 100% company-covered Multisport card, with discounts available for family members

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

Since expanding to Bulgaria in 2022, we’ve been building a fast-growing team that thrives on learning, collaboration, and innovation. Join us on this exciting journey and help shape the future of our delivery center.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.

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