[Hiring] Enterprise Architect @GetResponse

Role Description

As our Enterprise Architect, you own the technology vision — and you have the mandate to make it real. You will define and drive standards, guidelines, and the architecture strategy across our products:

• How systems are designed
• How services communicate
• How infrastructure supports scale
• How every major technology decision maps back to business outcomes

This isn't an advisory role — you set the direction, align the stakeholders, and take responsibility for the results. You'll work directly with IT professionals (Engineering Managers, Software Architects) and business leaders (Product Managers) across dedicated product teams — with the authority and organizational backing to make decisions that stick. You'll have a seat at the table with IT Top Management, to whom you report directly, ensuring architectural vision and business strategy move in lockstep.

If you see a risk, you own the mitigation. If you see an opportunity, you drive it forward. We'll give you the tools, and the trust — the outcome is yours.

Key responsibilities:

• Own the architecture:
  • Take full ownership of the overall applications architecture — driving design, discovery, and assessment of solution architectures across the organization
  • Translate architectural vision into tangible business impact, actively shaping both product and technology roadmaps
  • Evaluate technology choices and architectural trade-offs with a clear eye on cost, scalability, maintainability, and long-term capacity
• Drive decisions, manage risk:
  • Navigate architects and technology experts toward solid architectural decisions, standards, frameworks, and tooling — you set the direction, they help get there
  • Identify risks and architectural challenges early, and own the mitigation strategies that keep delivery on track
  • Closely collaborate with Infrastructure, DevOps, and IT Security teams to ensure every architectural decision is grounded in operational, security, and quality realities
• Shape the technical direction:
  • Facilitate alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders to define and prioritize architectural drivers for solutions being built
  • Drive or actively support implementation estimation and roadmap construction — bridging the gap between architectural vision and delivery planning
• Raise the bar across teams:
  • Provide mentorship, technical expertise, and hands-on guidance to architects and development teams — your knowledge is a force multiplier, not a bottleneck
  • Own architecture guidelines and documentation standards, and take responsibility for keeping them current and consistent across multiple product teams — without slowing their autonomy

Qualifications

• Hold a Master's degree in Computer Science or bring equivalent practical experience
• Have a 5+ years experience as an Architect, 10+ years of experience in Software Development
• Have a strong understanding of business processes and objectives
• Have strong communication skills in Polish and English (min. B2) in a professional environment

Requirements

• Have experience in at least one of the development stacks: .NET, PHP, Java, Python
• Have proven experience with different kinds of databases — relational, graph, columnar, NoSQL, and beyond
• Have strong knowledge of integration patterns and cross-system communication approaches
• Understand the full spectrum from monolithic to microservices architectures — including trade-offs, migration paths, and readiness required for each
• Have designed systems for both single-tenant and multi-tenant environments, and understand the implications for data isolation, scalability, and operational complexity
• Have guided teams through architecture transitions — whether extracting services from a monolith or consolidating a fragmented microservices landscape

Benefits

• We work in a hybrid model for those based in the Tri-City area; employees based outside the area work fully remotely
• Home office set up – a one-time bonus for a maximum of 1000 PLN (or equivalent) to help set up your home office space
• Private medical care for employees and their family members
• Employee referral program – up to 10 000 PLN for recommending a friend
• Corporate life insurance
• Employee pension program (PPE)
• Flexible working hours and no meeting days – we want to help you adjust your schedule to your activities
• Wellbeing and mental health culture – mental health helpline, sport card etc.
• Modern equipment – most of our teams work on MacBooks
• English classes
• Internal initiatives like webinars, knowledge-sharing sessions, and more!