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Position: System Architect / Solution Architect Work format: remote, Russian Federation Location: Russian Federation Company: Zontik
Salary range: up to 280k gross Employment: Labor Code / Sole Proprietor

Contact: dyshaeva

📌 Description We are looking for a strong architect with an engineering background to design and develop distributed information systems. The role involves active participation in building architecture "from scratch", developing integrations, and forming a cohesive architectural landscape.

📌 Key Tasks • Designing and developing distributed systems (including from scratch); • Forming integration architecture between heterogeneous systems and data sources; • Designing data exchange architecture and service interaction; • Developing and optimizing existing architecture; • Forming architecture in the Architecture as Code format; • Interacting with analysts and development teams; • Participating in the design of network connectivity and infrastructure; • Ensuring data security and integration requirements.

📌 Mandatory Requirements

Architecture and Design: • Experience as a System Architect / Technical Analyst / Solution Architect; • Practical experience in designing systems from scratch; • Ability to describe architecture (diagrams, schemes, documentation); • Understanding of distributed and integration architectures.

Integrations and Data Exchange: • Practical experience with RPC, REST, SOAP; • Experience with ETL, batch and streaming integrations; • Experience integrating with various data sources; • Understanding of integration and fault tolerance patterns.

Databases and Data: • Experience with Oracle / PostgreSQL; • Proficient knowledge of SQL (schema and query design); • General understanding of Big Data / Hadoop; • Designing storage schemas and data flows.

Infrastructure and Networks: • Understanding of network connectivity and distributed systems; • Experience participating in infrastructure solutions; • Understanding of service interaction at the network level.

Security: • Knowledge of encryption protocols and key management principles; • Understanding of protection and masking of sensitive data; • Consideration of information security requirements at the architectural level.

Approaches and Tools: • Experience or understanding of Architecture as Code; • Practical experience with DDD / EAI / Integration Architecture; • Experience with Structurizr will be a big plus.

📌 Will be a plus • Experience in domains: telecom, retail, e-commerce.

📌 Candidate Profile • Architect with a strong engineering background; • Hands-on specialist, not a manager; • Able to work in conditions of uncertainty and complex systems; • Capable of effectively interacting with business and development.

📌 Who we are not considering • Cloud-only architects without on-prem and network experience; • Specialists in narrow domains (mobile development, SAP, 1C, frontend, office solutions, gaming/betting); • PM / RM and other purely management roles; • System administrators without architectural experience.