About the Position

ELEKS is looking for a German-speaking Solution Architect with a pre-sales background in Germany.

In this position, you will become part of our dedicated presales team. The role is strategically focused on presales activities, where you will contribute significantly to designing technical solutions and defining the solution vision for the German region.

During the presales process, you will take the lead on the technical components, delivering well-structured and comprehensive architectural designs. You will engage across multiple business domains, benefiting from diverse projects, quick context switching, and swift onboarding. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with both business stakeholders and technical teams, helping to bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions.

Responsibilities

Elicit business and technical requirements from the business stakeholders
Define a solution architecture guided by the architectural drivers such as business and functional requirements, constraints, quality attributes
Provide ballpark estimates based on the estimation methodologies
Reengineer, document, review, and analyze solution architectures using trade-off analysis methodology and other qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis
Support the Engagement team in pre-sales providing the technical expertise, architecture vision, and estimates
Drive the project bootstrap cooperating with the development team and passing the knowledge and architectural vision to them
Support long-term projects from the architectural perspective making and reviewing design decisions, documenting the architecture, communicating with the client’s technical peers, participating in the creation of the PoC and prototypes, and collaborating with the development teams
Choose among the technologies, reference architectures, and patterns and evaluate the candidate solutions based on the objective drivers, constraints, and criteria
Travel onsite to perform the client consulting services

Requirements

8+ years of experience in software development (.Net/Java/JavaScript/Python)
3+ years of experience in technical leadership and software architecture
Strong hands-on experience with cloud technologies (Azure or AWS preferred; Google Cloud is acceptable if open to reskilling)
Familiarity with AI SDLC practices, or willingness to become proficient through ELEKS training
In-depth understanding of non-functional requirements (performance, security, scalability, maintainability) and solution design documentation
Readiness to actively participate in presales engagements
Familiarity with the ISO 25010 and NFRs gathering and validation
Fluent business English
Fluent German language proficiency (required for client communication)

We Offer

Close cooperation with a customer
Business trips
Challenging tasks
Competence development
Ability to influence project technologies
Projects from scratch
Team of professionals
Dynamic environment with a low level of bureaucracy

About the Company

ELEKS is a custom software development company. We deliver value to our clients, thanks to our expertise and experience gained from working as a software innovation partner since 1991.

Our 2000+ professionals located in the Delivery Centers across Eastern Europe and sales offices in Europe and North America, provide our clients with a full range of software engineering services. These include product development, QA, R&D, design, technology consulting, and dedicated teams.

Diana Shnitsar

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