Solution Architect

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Solution Architect designing and estimating cloud, data, and AI systems for Netguru’s digital commerce clients. Building proofs of concept and guiding presales-to-delivery handoffs.

Responsibilities:

  • Design technical solutions for new opportunities and RFPs, including architecture, components, integrations, data flows, infrastructure, and trade-offs
  • Design complex, integrated, cloud-native, enterprise-scale systems within legal and regulatory constraints
  • Design data-heavy and AI/ML systems, including data pipelines, LLM and agentic solutions, RAG, evaluation, and running costs
  • Choose technology stacks and integration patterns and justify choices in writing
  • Break solutions into scope and estimate them bottom-up, owning assumptions and risks
  • Factor AI-assisted delivery into effort and cost, including oversight, review, token, and infrastructure costs
  • Challenge estimates, present options in deal reviews, and flag overly risky deals
  • Build PoCs, spikes, and prototypes to validate technical choices
  • Run technical discovery and inception; hand solutions over to Tech Leads and teams and support the first sprints
  • Perform design and code reviews when projects need a second opinion
  • Join discovery calls and workshops as the technical expert
  • Write and defend technical proposal content before clients’ CTOs and engineers
  • Build reusable reference architectures, recommended stacks, and estimation baselines
  • Share patterns and lessons with Engineering Managers and Tech Leads

Requirements:

  • 10+ years in software engineering, with a hands-on background as a developer in major tech stacks (e.g. TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Java/Kotlin, .NET, React); you still code
  • 3+ years designing systems as an architect, principal or staff engineer, or similar
  • Proven experience designing complex, integrated enterprise systems end to end
  • Hands-on experience with data-heavy and AI/ML systems (including LLM-based solutions) in production
  • Strong cloud architecture skills (AWS, Azure or GCP)
  • A track record of estimates that held up in delivery
  • Ability to explain trade-offs to both CTOs and business stakeholders
  • Fluent Polish and English (B2+)
  • Background in consulting or a software house
  • Experience in regulated domains (finance, healthcare, energy, retail at scale)
  • Commerce architectures (headless commerce, PIM/DAM, headless CMS)
  • Strong Python and/or TypeScript/Node.js
  • Interest in growing into technical leadership in the future

Benefits:

  • AI tools and budget to experiment with new ways of delivery
  • UoP (CoE): Access to the WorkSmile platform offering benefits adapted to your preferences
  • Multisport card
  • Private health insurance package
  • Life insurance
  • Hundreds of other benefit options across 15 categories (shopping, leisure, travel, food, etc.)
  • UoP (CoE): PLN 175 monthly lump sum (ryczałt) for remote employees
  • B2B: Discounts on Apple products
  • Team workshops and integration events
  • Webinars and knowledge sharing sessions
  • Disability-related adaptations during the recruitment process