Solution Architect with Cloud

We are looking for a skilled Azure Architect who will join the CTO team, which is made up of experts who serve as trusted advisors to both internal and external stakeholders in the field of business development and technological solutions.

This role requires managing how decisions in each area affect the overall solution, developing deep expertise in enterprise systems architecture, systems integration and cloud technologies. Furthermore, it involves capturing and sharing best practices within the solution architect community and understanding the specific business domain you will be working in.

Your skills:

• Experience in designing and building software solutions using modern architectures and technologies.
• Expertise in architecting cloud solutions using Azure Cloud Platform.
• Experience in a leadership role, such as Development Team Lead or similar, and a strong technical background - this role requires deep involvement in the technical aspects of the work.
• Expert knowledge and experience of Continuous Integration & Delivery, Agile principles and practices.
• Expert knowledge with enterprise architecture/infrastructure/integration patterns.
• Familiarity with and ability to design microservice architectures, containerization, Kubernetes, Kafka, infrastructure as code, service mesh, API gateways.
• Understanding of system production readiness concerns and NFRs: HA, DR, logging and monitoring.
• Advanced experience and knowledge across various aspects of IT, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data management, budgeting, and governance.
• Ability to translate business requirements into secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.
• Excellent communication skills that will allow you to represent GFT within a customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel within the company.
• Ability to work independently with senior stakeholders in the client organisation.
• Ability to support sales and contribute to offering materials.
• Previous experience in building systems for financial industry would be a big plus.
• Experience in domain driven development, event driven architecture, data specific architectures is a big plus.
  
  

Why join GFT?

You will work with and learn from top IT experts. You will join a crew of experienced engineers: 60% of our employees are senior level.

Interested in the cloud? You will enjoy our full support in developing your skills: training programs, certifications and our internal community of experts. We have strong partnerships with top cloud providers: Google, Amazon and Microsoft - we are number one in Poland in numbers of GCP certificates. Apart from GCP, you can also develop in AWS or Azure.

We are focused on development and knowledge sharing. Internal expert communities provide a comfortable environment where you can develop your skillset in areas such as blockchain, Big Data, cloud computing or artificial intelligence.  

You will work in a stable company (32 years on the market) in demanding and challenging projects for the biggest financial institutions in the world.

We offer you:

• Hybrid work from – 2 office day per week
• Contract of employment or B2B contract
• Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team
• Benefit package that can be tailored to your personal needs (private medical coverage, sport & recreation package, lunch subsidy, life insurance, etc.)
• On-line training and certifications fit for career path
• Access to e-learning platform
• Mindgram - a holistic mental health and wellbeing platform
• Work From Anywhere (WFA) - the temporary option to work remotely outside of Poland for up to 140 days per year (including Italy, Spain, the UK, Germany, Portugal, and Bulgaria)
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,[Design and develop modern software solutions using the latest architectures and technologies., Design scalable, secure, cloud-native solutions on Azure., Apply CI/CD and Agile best practices, as well as enterprise architecture and integration patterns., Design systems that use microservices, Kubernetes, Kafka, infrastructure as code (IaC), API gateways, and so on., Ensure production readiness (high availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, logging, etc.)., Collaborate with senior client stakeholders and represent GFT in technical discussions., Translate business requirements into secure, scalable and reliable solutions., Support pre-sales activities and contribute to solution offerings., Experience in financial services and data/event-driven architectures would be an advantage.] Requirements: Architect, Microservices, containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, Cloud, English, Azure, Kafka Additionally: Home office, Knowledge sharing, Life insurance, Sport subscription, Training budget, Private healthcare, International projects.

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