Solutions Architect

Published 20 of October

Possumus is looking for a Solution Architect to join our dynamic team!

Possumus is a leading technology and AI company, specialized in software development and Microsoft Cloud solutions for the Banking, Fintech, and Oil & Gas sectors. We focus on delivering innovative technological solutions that help our clients optimize processes and achieve their business goals.

As a Solution Architect, you will transform complex business and technology challenges into viable, secure, scalable, operable, and economically sustainable solutions. You will act as a trusted advisor to our clients, connecting business needs, technology, pre-sales, and delivery throughout the entire solution lifecycle.


Responsibilities:

  • Lead discovery workshops, technical assessments, ideation sessions, and solution-definition activities with clients and internal stakeholders.
  • Understand clients business objectives, technology environments, processes, constraints, and expected outcomes, identifying both explicit and implicit requirements.
  • Design and communicate end-to-end solution architectures aligned with business and functional objectives, clearly documenting principles, assumptions, decisions, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs.
  • Define and validate functional and non-functional requirements, considering security, identity, integration, data, AI, observability, resilience, availability, scalability, performance, governance, compliance, operations, and cost.
  • Translate complex or ambiguous business challenges into clear, actionable, and technically viable solution alternatives and technology roadmaps.
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor, communicating complex technology concepts clearly to technical, functional, commercial, and executive audiences.
  • Lead the technical solutioning process during pre-sales, contributing to discovery meetings, proposals, RFPs, RFIs, high-level estimations, technical presentations, demonstrations, and proofs of concept.
  • Collaborate with Growth, Delivery, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Data, AI, Security, and Operations to ensure the feasibility, quality, and sustainability of proposed solutions.
  • Support the implementation of approved solutions, preserving architectural consistency and assessing changes that may affect scope, risks, costs, operations, or long-term sustainability.
  • Promote architecture principles, standards, reusable patterns, and best practices, contributing to Architecture Reviews and documenting relevant decisions through Architecture Decision Records when applicable.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and their applicability to specific client needs, promoting simple, sustainable, and reusable solutions over unnecessary complexity.
  • Share architectural knowledge, mentor technical professionals, and contribute to strengthening Possumus discovery, consulting, pre-sales, and solution architecture capabilities.

Minimum requirements

  1. 7+ years of professional experience in technology, including at least 4 years in Solution Architecture, technical consulting, solutioning, or equivalent responsibilities.
  2. Proven experience designing complex enterprise solutions and working directly with clients.
  3. Strong knowledge of cloud and solution architecture, with broad experience across Microsoft Azure, application architecture, integration, APIs, distributed architectures, cloud-native solutions, microservices, event-driven architectures, and application modernization.
  4. Broad knowledge of the Microsoft ecosystem and demonstrated technical depth in one or more relevant domains, such as Cloud, Data, AI, Security, Software Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
  5. Experience facilitating technical, executive, discovery, assessment, or solution-definition workshops.
  6. Experience participating in pre-sales processes, technical proposals, solution presentations, assessments, proofs of concept, or high-level estimations.
  7. Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and effectively to technical, business, and executive stakeholders.
  8. Strong client orientation, consultative thinking, active listening, stakeholder management, negotiation, and problem-framing skills.
  9. Ability to evaluate technical alternatives and clearly communicate their benefits, risks, costs, dependencies, and trade-offs.
  10. Proven ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and influence technical decisions without relying on direct authority.
  11. Ability to manage ambiguity, expectations, complex conversations, and conflicting stakeholder priorities with transparency and professional judgment.
  12. Advanced English proficiency (C1 or equivalent), with the ability to independently lead workshops, discovery sessions, technical meetings, pre-sales conversations, and solution presentations in English.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience working with enterprise clients, international projects, or regulated industries such as Banking, Financial Services, or Energy.
  • Experience in cloud transformation, application and platform modernization, Data, Analytics, or AI initiatives.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Foundry, Generative AI, RAG patterns, AI Governance, and Responsible AI.
  • Knowledge of Identity and Access Management, Zero Trust, Security by Design, Cloud Governance, Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, Azure Well-Architected Framework, or NIST.
  • Experience with DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, observability, resilience, and FinOps.
  • A degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent education or professional experience.
  • Relevant certifications such as AZ-305 Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AI-102 Azure AI Engineer Associate, SC-100 Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect, other Microsoft Data, Development or DevOps certifications, or TOGAF.


Our hiring process:

  1. TA Interview
  2. Technical Interview
  3. Job Offer


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