Solutions Architect

As a Solution Architect at The Workshop, you will be responsible for defining and maintaining the architecture of specific products and systems, aligning with business directions and overall company architectural strategy. You will collaborate with Product Directors and other technical stakeholders, define non-functional requirements, empower development teams, and ensure technical solutions are delivered efficiently. The role also involves hands-on coding for specific projects, technology evaluation, and POC development.

Must Have

• Proven experience designing and documenting system architectures
• Ability to work in a multi-faceted role (Architecture, Development, Project Management, Business Analysis)
• Experience in analysing problems from business and engineering perspectives
• Ability to communicate, negotiate and influence stakeholders
• Extensive hands-on development experience
• Ability to formally document complex systems, solutions and ideas
• Ability to provide reliable estimations of effort and duration
• Good response under pressure and adaptability to changes
• Proven experience with multiple cloud platforms

Perks & Benefits

• Private life and health insurance for you and your family
• Gym reimbursement
• Four weeks per year to work from anywhere for eligible employees
• Learning Pocket for personal development
• A hybrid working model with flexible hours
• 3 volunteering paid days each year
• Generous referral programme
• 25 days of annual leave
• Private Pension Scheme (Opt-in)

Your mission

As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for the architecture of certain products/systems, based on directions from the business.

What you'll do

• Be responsible for the Architecture of the specific functional areas and components, ensuring the architecture is optimal and aligned to the overall architectural strategy
• Engage with the central architecture team to understand overall company architectural strategy and guidelines
• Work closely with Product Directors to understand mid/long-term product strategies and define product architecture roadmaps accordingly
• Understand other technical stakeholders strategies(e.g. devops, application security, database teams) and ensure alignment
• Identify and define appropriate non-functional requirements that need to be satisfied by the technical solution ensuring these are part of the overall requirements
• Empower the development team to participate in the design of technical solutions and ensure they are fully aligned with requirements and architectural principles
• Work with the project stakeholders to ensure that the defined technical solutions and requirements are broken down into a sensible delivery schedule e.g. sizing/scope, phases, deliverables, build order, etc
• Provide continuous support to the team ensuring they have the necessary technical guidance
• Identify, define and prioritise technical/architectural initiatives to continuously improve our products ensuring they meet all architectural principles
• Get your hands dirty and produce top quality code to help the dev team in specific projects, to evaluate new technologies or to develop POCs

What you'll bring

• Proven experience designing and documenting system architectures
• Ability to work in a multi-faceted role often consisting of elements of Architecture, Development, Project Management, Business Analysis...
• Experience in analysing problems from both business and engineering points of view and designing solutions that meet both technical and business requirements
• Ability to communicate, negotiate and influence both business and engineering stakeholders, always adapting communication style to engage with specific audiences
• Extensive hands-on development experience and ability to act as a top developer if the situation requires it
• Ability to formally document complex systems, solutions and ideas in a clear and concise manner
• Ability to provide reliable estimations of effort and duration of whole projects, milestones, iterations and tasks
• Good response under pressure and ability to quickly react to changes and to adapt strategies and priorities accordingly
• Proven experience with multiple cloud platforms

What's in it for you (Spain)

• Private life and health insurance for you and your family.
• Gym reimbursement.
• Four weeks per year to work from anywhere for eligible employees.
• Learning Pocket for personal development.
• A hybrid working model with flexible hours.
• 3 volunteering paid days each year.
• Generous referral programme.
• 25 days of annual leave.
• Private Pension Scheme (Opt-in).