Senior Data & Analytics Solution Architect – Banking Sector

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Krakow-based opportunity with hybrid work model (up to 3 remote days per week).

As a Senior Data & Analytics Solution Architect, you will work for our client, a leader in the banking sector dedicated to transforming data into strategic business assets. Your role will be pivotal in designing cutting-edge solutions that drive data-driven decision-making workflows, ensuring compliance, operational excellence, and technological innovation for a dynamic financial environment.

Your main responsibilities:

• Rapidly understand business needs by engaging with the Chief Data Office, business users, and subject matter experts.
• Translate complex business requirements into robust solution and functional designs.
• Develop technical and logical architecture templates supporting scalable data solutions.
• Communicate technical solutions effectively to development teams and support ongoing implementation.
• Collaborate with production support to ensure maintainability and supportability of delivered solutions.
• Promote best practices, standards, and tools within the architecture community.
• Provide strategic recommendations and develop roadmaps for technology solutions.
• Document best practices and share knowledge across teams.
• Lead process improvements and develop innovative solutions to meet evolving demands.
• Provide technical leadership throughout project lifecycles, including proof-of-concept projects.
• Review and validate design solutions created by team members.
• Manage detailed end-to-end solution design, addressing architectural risks, issues, and technical debt.
• Ensure cost-effective architecture, supporting agile development and backlog management.
• Facilitate governance reviews and ensure solutions adhere to reference architectures and standards.
• Collaborate with enterprise and platform architects to refine the architectural strategy and roadmap.

You're ideal for this role if you have:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Solution Architect in large, complex, and distributed organizations.
• Proven ability to abstract architectural patterns from technical solutions.
• Strong leadership, presentation skills, and experience communicating with diverse stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with streaming technologies: Kafka, Flink, Pub/Sub.
• Knowledge of application integration patterns: REST API, Microservices.
• Expertise in database technologies: SQL / NoSQL.
• Background in Data Warehousing, ETL, and data integration.
• Familiarity with Linux, Shell Scripting (Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience with cloud platforms: GCP, Azure, AWS.
• Experience with Big Data platforms: Hadoop, Spark, Databricks, BQ.
• Knowledge of containerization: Docker, Kubernetes.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to challenge and refine design decisions.
• Excellent communication skills, fluent in English.
• Strong planning, organization, and time management skills.
• Commercial acumen and ability to independently manage tasks.

It is a strong plus if you have:

• Awareness of master data management principles.
• Knowledge of programming languages: Python, Scala, and libraries such as Spark, Pandas.
• Understanding of Enterprise Architecture methodologies like TOGAF.

Language Required for the role:
Fluent English, both spoken and written.

Eligibility for the role:
Only candidates with an existing legal right to work in the European Union will be considered for this role.

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