Solution Architect

**Welcome to Monstarlab Engineering**
We are Monstarlab - a digital consultancy with engineering at the core ‍ We care a lot about delivering value to our clients and we strive to hit the sweet spot between moving fast and being a strategic partner ❤️

What does this mean for you? On a daily basis, you will be taking a lot of ownership and will be deeply involved in shaping and delivering meaningful projects together with our teams and clients. You will be working with colleagues from all over the world, iterating and collaborating with designers, engineers, QA, delivery, and strategy across the four pillars of our organization: Tech, Data, Experience & Strategy. Monstarlab is a borderless company with offices in 30 cities around the world

**Solution Architecture at Monstarlab**

Within Monstarlab’s Solution Architecture practice we’re interested in finding problem solvers who can think critically about a customer problem and organise a technical solution involving our team of experts that solves that problem.

**Your responsibilities as a Solution Architect**:

- Participating in steering workshops & project planning phases
- Communication of technical designs through detailed architecture diagrams, data models, mockups and journey maps to technical and non-technical audiences
- Translation and management of user requirements into solution definitions that can be built by delivery teams around you
- Reviewing technical solutions and proposals, evaluating alternative approaches and supporting the development of prototypes as well as technical/functional specifications
- Collaboration on shared initiatives and practices for other architects
- Ensuring overall transformation of clients' current solutions from legacy setups to state-of-the-art functionality
- Delivery of solutions which reflect NFR and compliance requirements

**We are looking for someone who**
- Has extensive experience in a Lead Developer, Technical Architect or Solution Architect role across diverse development projects
- Is a technical thinker who works at a project level to define requirements, but more than that you are proactive, enthusiastic and committed to delivering solutions that clients love
- Beyond your hands-on experience, you will need solid experience in leading a team and you will also need to have been part of pitching and selling projects, by doing tech validation, estimations, and communicating technical solutions
- Has experience in software development, including leading cloud-based and/or scalable digital solution builds for mobile, web and backend
- Speaks fluent English and has intermediate (B1+) German language skills

**Your skills**
- A good knowledge of how to determine key aspects of how a solution is connected, such as API Contracts, PubSub, Infrastructure services etc
- Ability to model solutions around the business domain as a central guideline, assuring long-term development agility and scalability of the system. Being familiar with Domain-Driven Design is a big plus.
- Working knowledge of Well Architected Principles on any of the big cloud vendors
- Recent experience of development in backend / frontend / mobile / infrastructure / data engineering
- Loving documentation as much as we do would be useful - We work in C4 model as standard to ensure easy collaboration, with PlantUML also used
- Thinking full service. Have you previously provided release planning or go-live management?
- Thinking about how we test quality in each solution. Facilitating how we’ll test might be a core attribute of the solution
- Thinking about infrastructure and solution sustainability. Will business change be easy?
- Able to communicate effectively and pragmatically with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders and influence in the direction of the best solution where necessary
- Knowledge or experience of Enterprise / Solution Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman would be useful

**What can we offer?**
- Innovative digital projects for top tier clients
- Skilled and supportive teammates
- Borderless collaboration
- MacBook Pro (M1 Pro) and Bose headphones
- Hybrid work model (roughly 2 days office + 3 days home-office, but flexible)
- Monstarlab office in the middle of Berlin (at Mindspace in Friedrichstr.)
- Access to wellbeing support
- Internal training and development support
- Meal Vouchers
- Monstarlab Hackathons & Engineering Conferences

**Working at Monstarlab**

What does working at Monstarlab look like? Put in one sentence: Working at Monstarlab means delivering awesome projects, in trust-based relations with talented people who enjoy what they are doing. Trust is key in ensuring that we can deliver great work with our clients and that we can develop as an organization and individuals. You will be met with a high level of trust across the organization as we are confident that everyone is here to make a difference and to amplify their impact. We provide and request feedback often as