Enterprise Architect

About the Position

Solaris is Europe’s leading embedded finance platform, pioneering Banking-as-a-Service to bridge the gap between financial technology and licensed banking. As a fully licensed German bank, Solaris combines the highest standards of IT security and regulatory resilience with a modular, highly scalable infrastructure. Today, Solaris is driving the next evolution of financial services by transitioning into an AI-native banking platform, ensuring European businesses can deploy secure, adaptable financial products at scale.

We are looking for an Enterprise Architect to join our team in Berlin and help shape the future of AI-native banking platforms.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that enterprise product strategy and architecture strategy match, reinforce each other, and drive business value. This includes shaping the enterprise's AI adoption strategy - identifying where AI creates measurable leverage. Strike the right balance between long-term elegance, enterprise scalability, and short-term pragmatism.
• Provide authoritative architectural and technical guidance to senior stakeholders and the broader Tech area. Define and enforce enterprise-wide engineering standards, best practices, and architectural guardrails.
• Lead the design of complex, multi-domain systems. Actively participate in high-stakes architectural discussions, utilizing prototypes and proofs-of-concept to validate enterprise-level solutions before widespread rollout.
• Drive the department's overarching technical roadmap. Evaluate the current tech portfolio, manage technical debt at an organizational level, and guide "build vs. buy" decisions.
• Act as a multiplier for technical talent. Help senior engineers and technical leads grow in their craft, fostering a culture of cross-team collaboration and architectural excellence.

Requirements

• Deep, progressive work experience moving from a senior software developer to a high-impact architectural role (Enterprise, Principal, or Chief Architect) in a dynamic, scaled environment.
• Expert understanding of modern enterprise technology landscapes and highly comfortable governing our overall Tech Stack: AWS, Docker, Microservices, Golang, Java, Python, React.js, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Concourse, GitHub, Prometheus. This extends to AI infrastructure.
• Profound, enterprise-scale experience with AWS services. Understand how to design multi-account organizational structures, global network architectures, and complex application layers. Deeply familiar with cloud governance and security tools.
• Comprehensive experience spanning Backend/APIs, Frontend/JS, System Design, and DevOps. Understand how these domains interact at a macroeconomic scale.
• Communicate flawlessly in written and verbal English.
• Deep understanding of agile and lean processes at an enterprise scale. Embrace end-to-end ownership and prefer to prove your ideas by measuring their impact, accepting that failure and rapid iteration are vital parts of innovation.
• Maintain a clear-eyed, pragmatic view of AI capabilities - able to cut through hype, identify where AI genuinely accelerates outcomes.
• Strong ability to decode complex technical matters for non-technical executive audiences, while also being able to dive deep into the weeds with engineers.
• Collaborative, easy to work with, and actively contribute to a positive, blameless company culture.

We Offer

• Home office budget.
• Learning & development budget of €1000 per year and a transparent growth framework to support your career goals.
• Competitive salary and a variable remuneration program.
• Monthly meal allowance.
• Deutschland ticket subsidy.
• 28 vacation days, increasing by 2 days after 2 years and 3 days after 3 years with Solaris.
• Opportunity to work abroad for up to 12 weeks per year.

About the Company

At Solaris, we are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment, where all Solarians feel valued, respected, and supported. We are dedicated to building a diverse workforce that reflects the diversity of our communities. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of color, ethnicity, religion, sex, origin, disability, marital status, citizenship, or gender identity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Information on data processing:

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EN: https://www.solarisgroup.com/gdpr_notice_en

The annual gross salary range for this position is:

€120.000 - €140.000 EUR