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If you are passionate about modern technologies, large-scale data, and an environment where you can grow your skills and make an impact - this is the place for you.\nMore information: www.cloudferro.com\nYour responsibilities will include:\nDesigning and maintaining up-to-date IT system architectures for Clients using CloudFerro’s product portfolio.\nCollaborating with Clients, Project Managers, Product Managers, and technical team leaders to ensure project success.\nPreparing end-to-end architectural solutions that meet Client requirements and internal company standards.\nDecomposing designed systems into smaller components, agreeing on required changes and extensions to existing products.\nCommunicating, clarifying, and explaining architecture and technical aspects of the project scope to Clients and internal technical teams.\nDefining the technical scope and execution approach for work performed by subcontractors.\nAnswering technical questions related to architecture and making architectural decisions.\nCoordinating, supervising, and accepting subcontractor work from a technical perspective.\nExecuting or coordinating technical tasks requiring cross-team collaboration (e.g., environment design, multi-product deployment planning).\nProviding architectural support during design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance phases at the Client side.\nPreparing technical project documentation and coordinating the creation of required documentation elements by technical teams.\nWorking with the Project Manager on project scheduling (technical tasks, workload estimation, dependencies).\nTechnical oversight of project progress.\nIdentifying and managing technical risks.\nParticipating in offer preparation.\nParticipating in effort and cost estimation for project budgeting.\nMaintaining strong knowledge of CloudFerro’s solutions and technology trends to advise and select the best solutions for Clients.\nWe expect from you:\nTechnical education (computer science, electronics, telecommunications, or similar).\nMinimum 5 years of experience in IT as an architect, particularly in infrastructure-related areas.\nExperience working directly with Clients.\nAbility to translate business requirements into technical solutions.\nKnowledge of Cloud Computing concepts.\nUnderstanding of design patterns (or experience designing) distributed processing systems.\nExperience designing high-availability (HA) systems.\nStrong soft skills: communication, teamwork, openness to change, independence, diligence, efficiency, creativity, patience.\nExperience in preparing technical offers.\nKnowledge of IT architecture documentation standards (especially C4).\nAttention to standards and best practices.\nAbility to design and document scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions.\nAbility to specify technical tasks for external teams.\nExperience working with IT specialists across various domains and technologies.\nWillingness to share knowledge and experience.\nUnderstanding of product-oriented thinking.\nExcellent self-organization, planning, and prioritization skills.\nFocus on quality and timely delivery.\nAbility to present complex technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders.\nVery good command of English enabling communication with Clients and partners, as well as reading and creating system and technical documentation (min. 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