Solution Architect

**First insights**:
**That’s what it’s about**:

- Develop detailed architecture diagrams and supporting documentation in order to provide the implementation team with guidance and support
- Understand the business needs of the customer by conducting well-structured interviews and workshops with stakeholders
- Participate in technical sales activities to provide the customer with the information they need to make an informed decision
- Summarize the gathered information into a clear vision and comprehensive target state which aligns with the desired outcomes
- Develop an implementation roadmap together with your team by slicing up the work into self-contained value driven milestones
- Present the outcome to the customer to get project buy-in
- Actively communicate and present architecture decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders on the customer side
- Conduct architecture reviews with the implementation team on a continuous basis ensuring that the solution fits well into the customer environment and platform vision
- Periodically verify and re-estimate the cloud consumption costs in order to provide the customer and our partners with a transparent view
- Help the team prepare project handover documentation and recycle project knowledge into reusable templates for future projects

**This is you**:
You are a passionate team player at heart who respects the opinions of their colleagues. You strengthen the team with your qualifications:

- Demonstrated proficiency in the design and implementation of modern data architectures and concepts in the cloud (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP) with a strong focus on modern data lakes & warehouses (e.g. Databricks, Dremio), data pipeline orchestration (e.g. Airflow, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue), and related areas
- 8+ years of Software Engineering experience with a strong focus on platform engineering
- 2+ years of proven Solution Architecture experience
- Excellent analytical skills, ability to understand complex business issues and translate them to solutions based on both quantitative and qualitative analysis
- Hands on experience and ability to develop and maintain end-to-end solutions, communicating at high level coupled with a detailed understanding
- Excellent technical understanding to address non-functional requirements including query performance, data quality, and security
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to clearly explain complex business and technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
- The ability to work collaboratively across diverse groups of business and technical stakeholders, and explain complex technical solutions to audiences on management level during sales, pre-sales, and customer engagement

**About us**:
At MobiLab you have the possibility to bring your creative mindset to production and pave the way for our customers to become a cloud-native company. You can enjoy a lot of freedom which allows you to codify the company culture and have a lasting ink at MobiLab. Our team is energetic, dynamic and international and we are glued together through the purpose of bringing our customers forward. Our open and respectful company culture will make you feel at home and allows you to grow and expand your knowledge. Our new office in the heart of the harbor district in Cologne offers a creative and inspiring working environment. To make you feel completely supported we offer some perks besides exciting projects. Besides the job ticket for your region and the participation in a yearly conference of your choice, we have further employee benefits like a company pension scheme as well as support of child care expenses. Enjoy regular company events such as beer & wine evenings, as well as company BBQs to connect with your peers.

If you’re passionate about growing and learning from the complexities of Cloud Integration by searching for Engineering Perfection then become part of our MobiLab Team.