[Hiring] Technical Solution Architect @Ciklum

Role Description

Ciklum is looking for a Technical Solution Architect to join our team full-time in Romania. As a Technical Solution Architect, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow. Client is a leading global payments platform that connects businesses and consumers across 260 payment types in over 40 countries. In 2026, Client is undergoing a massive AI transformation.

• Formulate and drive the overarching technical architecture strategy, aligning technology initiatives with core business objectives.
• Define, establish, and enforce enterprise architecture standards, engineering principles, and governance frameworks across engineering teams.
• Spearhead emerging technology research and R&D initiatives to evaluate new tools, frameworks, and trends for business integration.
• Cultivate and scale shared skills, technical competencies, and engineering best practices across cross-functional tech organizations.
• Establish continuous improvement programs to optimize engineering performance, code quality, and system scalability.
• Oversee the development, maintenance, and adoption of centralized internal libraries, common components, and shared services.
• Design, standardize, and champion robust deployment patterns, CI/CD practices, and cloud-native operational architectures.

Qualifications

• Proven executive or senior-level architectural leadership experience within high-scale enterprise environments (preferably Fintech or Payments).
• Deep technical expertise in enterprise software design, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and microservices architecture.
• Strong track record of establishing organizational technology governance frameworks and engineering quality standards.
• Hands-on experience leading R&D efforts, prototyping emerging tech, and successfully transitioning innovations into production.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineering teams, foster continuous learning, and elevate collective technical capabilities.
• Extensive experience building reusable core libraries, SDKs, and developer-facing platform tooling.
• Mastery of modern deployment strategies, infrastructure-as-code, pipeline automation, and high-availability operational architectures.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and strategic visioning skills to bridge business and engineering priorities.

Benefits

• 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.
• Enjoy radical flexibility – work remotely or from an office, your choice.
• Care: Medical subscription to Regina Maria, meal tickets of 40 ron net/day worked.

Company Description

At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. In Romania, we welcome top-tier tech talent — whether from our Bucharest office or fully remotely. Tap into deep industry knowledge, grow your career, and make an impact in an empowering environment.