Product Architect

Client Description:

We're currently looking for specialists for the position of Product Architect.

If you're interested, please take a look at the job offer below.

What can we offer?

• Long-term cooperation based on Employment contract
• Work mode: Hybrid in Warsaw (2-3 days per week from office)

Candidate Profile:

·      Bachelor’s degree in an IT field or equivalent work experience, with at least 5 years of experience in a business systems analysis role or as a product owner managing a complex product or feature within an enterprise environment

·      A strong understanding of product management and agile software development methods, with familiarity in modern product design and management tools

·      A solid understanding of software architecture and development principles, including patterns, modularity, scalability, and lifecycle management

·      Strong knowledge of Java and its ecosystem, including common frameworks and technologies such as Spring, JPA/Hibernate, RESTful APIs, Maven/Gradle, and unit/integration testing frameworks

·      Familiarity with frontend technologies (e.g., HTML, JavaScript, React/Angular) at a conceptual level to support end-to-end design discussions

·      Familiarity with public cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, or GCP), including deployment models, native services, and architectural considerations for cloud-native systems

·      Awareness of security principles, including data protection, authentication and authorization, secure communication, and secure system design

·      Conceptual understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform, ARM/Bicep, or CloudFormation) and DevOps tools and practices, such as CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes)

·      Knowledge of TOGAF and Archimate frameworks is a plus

·      Ability to travel (up to 15% of time)

·      Ability to work across multiple time zones if required

Responsibilities:

The Architect role has key tasks that they work towards:

·      Product Architecture – when necessary, define or evolve a product architecture based on new requirements or overall system needs.

·      Solution Architecture – when required by System Architecture, help define a particular decision or solution for a customer deployment to guide development and customer technical leads.

·      Architecture Strategy – help guide engineering and product towards technologies and an architecture that meets business needs, being responsible for key design decisions when necessary.

What you bring with you:

·     Product Architecture Ownership – help analyse and consolidate requirements into a technical solution as input to product roadmaps and for engineering to develop towards.

·    Delivery Improvement Mindset – Identify areas of optimization for engineering to work towards to make realisation of the architecture easier and robust. Influencing changes in ways of working and deliverables.

·    Technical Experience – Apply architectural and system design expertise to support critical decision points in both product and solution development. Clearly communicate the trade-offs of different approaches and help stakeholders make well-informed decisions based on cost, complexity, performance, and maintainability.

·    Hands on mindset – where necessary get involved in setting up the foundations or help resolve critical issues together with engineering.

·    Strong communication and facilitation skills – Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving and occasionally chaotic environment with diverse, opinionated stakeholders. Confident in navigating conflicting viewpoints, building alignment, and driving architectural and strategic discussions to actionable conclusions.