Solution Architect

Location: Katowice, pl

Company Description

Sopra Steria is one of the largest players in the tech industry in Europe, known for its consulting, digital services and software development. We operate in nearly 30 countries in the world, hiring more than 55,000 employees.
The Polish branch, as the Global Delivery Center, operates in Katowice since 2007 and has been growing ever since. Currently, our team consists of around 1,000 specialists.

Within the Digital Platform Services department, our teams specialize in areas such as cloud, operating systems, virtualization, databases, backup or storage, as well as networking and security. We also have 1st line support consultants who speak French and English, but also Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German.

The Application Services department is responsible for areas such as software development, data engineering, testing services, CRM, ITSM and ERP platform integrations, as well as application management for customers in Scandinavia, Benelux, France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK.

Job Description

We are looking for a Solution Architect to join Sopra Steria Apps Services team on an international Program for a leader in the aerospace sector. You will support the implementation of a new approach for Safety Assessment within the new program and focus on defining and governing the architecture of the selected engineering solutions, supporting tool evaluations, and preparing High-Level Design Documentation. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, engineering teams, and solution providers to establish architecture principles, constraints, and standards that ensure a robust, scalable, maintainable, and compliant solution.

Note that we can only offer cooperation to people who are located in Poland and have EU citizenship.

Responsibilities:​

• Develop, maintain, and govern High-Level Design Documents (HLDD).
• Define and validate the end-to-end technical and solution architecture for engineering and safety assessment platforms.
• Define and document architectural constraints, design principles, standards, and governance applicable to the selected toolchain.
• Establish architecture guidelines and best practices to ensure consistency, scalability, interoperability, maintainability, and long-term sustainability.
• Perform architecture modelling and maintain relevant views using Enterprise Architect (Sparx EA).
• Evaluate candidate tools from architecture, integration, compliance, and operability perspectives.
• Facilitate architecture reviews and support evidence-based technical decision-making.
• Collaborate with business, engineering, IT, and solution-provider stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, constraints, and mitigation actions.
• Support the architecture roadmap and the controlled evolution of the selected digital engineering solution.

Qualifications

Must have requirements:​

• Solution and technical architecture design
• High-Level Design Documentation (HLDD)
• Architecture governance, reviews, standards, and design principles
• Enterprise Architect (Sparx EA)
• Requirements engineering, interface definition, and data-flow modelling
• Scalability, maintainability, interoperability, security, and compliance-by-design
• Technical risk and dependency assessment
• Business and technical requirement analysis
• Tool evaluation and solution selection
• Stakeholder management and workshop facilitation
• Architecture roadmap development
• Technical decision support and documentation
• Experience working in complex or regulated engineering environments
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills
• Clear written, verbal, and presentation skills
• Ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders
• Collaborative, pragmatic, and outcome-oriented working style
• Attention to detail and commitment to documentation quality
• Fluent English B2/C1.
• Being open to occasional business trips abroad and visits in our office in Katowice or Gdańsk.

Nice to have requirements:

• Safety engineering and safety assessment processes
• Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and digital engineering ecosystems
• Model-based engineering concepts

Additional Information

What we offer: 

• BENEFITS (UoP): Luxmed, Medicover Sport, Worksmile, educational platforms, languages learning platform, referral bonus, life insurance, certifications (paid by the company), conferences, Tech Lunches, possibility to join our Communities (Project Management, Architecture, Security, Process Management, Leadership, AI and Cloud), local kindergarten. 

• DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES (B2B): Tech Lunches, Worksmile, possibility to join our Communities (Project Management, Architecture, Security, Process Management, Leadership, AI and Cloud). 

• ADDITION: free parking, fresh fruits, workation. 

In case of questions, please contact the HR team. 

The recruitment process for this position consists of two stages:
• a short phone call with a recruiter (30 min max)
• one-hour long interview on Teams (with both general and technical questions)

Salary range:
UOP: 18 000 -22 000 PLN gross/month.
B2B: 135-180/190 PLN/h net.

All information about salary range and its additional components will be provided during the 1st stage of recruitment process.

At our organization, we are committed to fighting against all forms of discrimination. We foster a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.