[Hiring] Staff Architect (Senior Solution Architect) @SPD Technology

Role Description

We are looking for a Staff Architect (Senior Solution Architect) to join us as part of our team.

About the project:

• PitchBook — a platform for investment professionals.
• Our software provides access to data and the analytical tools to get answers fast and discover promising opportunities.
• Uncovers actionable insights and trends hidden within the financial data of more than three million companies.
• Users all over the world include large corporations, start-ups, venture capital and private equity firms, investment banks, and many others.

Features of PitchBook:

• Advanced search
• Discovery & insights
• Company profiles
• Workflow & efficiency
• Many more

Our Tech Stack & Focus Areas:

• Java
• Spring
• React
• Typescript
• Apache Beam
• Flink
• LangGraph
• GCP/AWS
• K8s

Work Environment:

• Flexible schedule with participation in team ceremonies and cross-functional collaboration.
• Time zone: Europe/Kyiv.

As a qualified expert, you will:

• Translate high-level business initiatives into concrete architectural vision and technical standards.
• Devise technology and architecture solutions that propel engineering excellence across the organization.
• Author AI-ready solution specifications as part of the design lifecycle.
• Drive system evolution toward well-defined target and transition states.
• Describe technical context in intuitive ways for different audiences.
• Drive system innovation by leveraging AI as a core enabler.
• Learn constantly, including in available cloud managed services.
• Propose pragmatic, organized, and balanced technical decisions.
• Provide and oversee high-level estimates for scoping non-trivial features.
• Coach engineering teams and enable them to make high-quality autonomous decisions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on software development experience with strong core engineering principles.
• 3+ years of experience in designing complex software architectures for the multi-stack environment.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• A strong, disciplined approach to architectural decision-making.
• Proven capability to manage stakeholder expectations and build cross-organizational alignment.
• Practical experience designing data solutions across relational databases and enterprise search engines.
• Experience architecting on major cloud platforms using containerization and orchestration technologies.
• Prior experience in pre-sales, technical discovery, or solution consulting is considered a strong plus.
• Hands-on experience driving AI enablement initiatives is considered a strong plus.
• English — Upper Intermediate or higher; Ukrainian — fluent.

Benefits

• Experience an agile and flexible working environment.
• Enjoy the freedom of fully remote work with a flexible working schedule.
• Empower yourself with a stable workload and income, supported by provided laptops and licensed software.
• Benefit from performance and merit reviews, personal development plans, and individual learnings.
• Work with a team of like-minded people who care about what they do.
• Join company-wide tech and cultural events, and contribute to meaningful CSR initiatives.
• Feel supported by your HR, and take advantage of our referral bonus program.

Interview Steps

• Pre-screening with recruiter
• Technical Interview
• Manager Interview
• HR BP Interview
• Final client Interview