Enterprise Architect

Ciklum is looking for an Enterprise Architect to join our team full-time in Ukraine.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As an Enterprise Architect, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. Client for this project is the largest professional services network in the world by revenue and number of professionals. Client provides audit, tax, consulting, enterprise risk, and financial advisory services worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Identify business goals and objectives
• Gather primary functionality, quality characteristics of software behavior and given constraints
• Elaborate business, information and technology architectures mapping
• Elaborate architecture vision which satisfies architecturally significant requirements; through trade-off analysis, proof of concepts implementation, benchmarking
• Set up and manage architecture design and documentation processes
• Document and communicate architecture decision and trade-offs to major stakeholders
• Review and validate design decisions made by downstreams and ensure they do satisfy solution architecture vision

Requirements:

• Fluent English
• Commercial experience in software development (more than 7 years)
• Commercial experience in solution architecture design (more than 3 years)
• Experience with data management, data integration and data transformation approaches
• Understanding of containerization and orchestration
• Understanding SDLC processes and their reasoning
• Experience with guiding software development, testing, deployment and project management
• Excellent knowledge in Computer Science, Computing Theory:
• Architectural & Design Patterns
• Algorithms
• Paradigm & Principles
• Database theory
• Code testing practices
• Practical experience with:
• Microservices architecture
• Cloud technologies (Microsoft Azure):
• Azure DevOps
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Databricks
• Azure Service Bus
• DBMS:
• Microsoft SQL
• MongoDB
• .NET Core 3
• Business skills:
• Excellent client facing, business consulting and communication skills
• Ability to efficiently communicate verbally and visually
• Ability to explain and proof differences, pros and cons of suggested design decisions
• Ability to influence senior client decision makers
• Develop long lasting relationships with business and technical stakeholders
• Leading and supporting medium to large size solution delivery projects
• Analysis of business, product and technology requirements

Desirable:

• Certifications on:
• Architecture framework (SEI, TOGAF, etc.)
• Cloud providers (Microsoft Azure)
• Delivery processes (SAFe, Agile, etc)
• Experience with:
• Release Management tools & Configuration Management tools
• Infrastructure as a code tools
• Experience in Pre-sales, Proposal/Bid preparation
• Databricks experience is a plus

Personal skills:

• Ability to relate positively to and engage with a wide range of people
• Strong self-motivation, reliable and flexible team-player. High attention to details
• Always seeking to improve processes and suggest alternative better solutions
• Be ready to embrace change, be flexible

What’s in it for you?

• Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
• Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
• Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
• Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
• Flexibility: Enjoy radical flexibility - work remotely or from an office, your choice
• Care: We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations

About us:

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.

As one of Ukraine’s largest IT companies and a top employer recognized by Forbes, we’ve spent over 20 years delivering meaningful tech solutions. We proudly support diverse talent and military veterans, recognizing their unique skills and perspectives they bring to shaping the future.

Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!

Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.