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Solution Architect

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 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

Responsibilities

  • Identify key business stakeholders and establish communication with them
  • Gather primary functionality, quality characteristics of software behavior and given constraints
  • Document and communicate architecture decisions and trade-offs to major stakeholders
  • Review and validate design decisions made by downstreams and ensure they satisfy the solution architecture vision

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Teamwork
  • Self-Motivation
  • Physical Flexibility
  • Detail Oriented

About the company

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Ciklum

IT Services & IT Consulting

Ciklum is a global Digital Solutions Company for Fortune 500 and fast-growing organisations alike around the world. The company is headquartered in London and has software development centres and branch offices in the United States, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Israel, Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, UAE and Pakistan.Ciklum builds tailored digital solutions that leverage emerging technologies for such clients as Just Eat, Flixbus, Metro Markets, EFG International, Zurich Insurance, Lottoland and others.For more information about us visit www.ciklum.com

Company details

Company typeStartup
IndustryIT Services & IT Consulting
Company size1001 - 5000

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Job description

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

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?

  • Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
  • Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
  • Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
  • Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
  • Enjoy radical flexibility – work remotely or from an office, your choice
  • Care: Medical subscription to Regina Maria, meal tickets of 16 ron net/day worked

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.

In Romania, we welcome top-tier tech talent — whether from our Bucharest office or fully remotely. Tap into deep industry knowledge, grow your career, and make an impact in an empowering environment.

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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