ELEKS is looking for a Solution Architect to join the Government Presales team in Ukraine.
ABOUT PROJECT
As a Solution Architect, you will design practical, competitive, and compliant solutions for government sector opportunities. Your responsibilities will include gathering and synthesizing business needs, constraints, and stakeholder requirements to define architecture drivers and quality attributes.
You will operate at the intersection of customer needs, business objectives, technology excellence, and delivery capabilities—translating complex requirements into clear solution concepts and compelling proposal responses.
This position is ideal for a Senior Architect who enjoys influencing technology decisions, aligning business needs with technical direction, and contributing to strong, competitive proposals.
REQUIREMENTS
- 8+ years of experience in software development using technologies such as .NET, JavaScript, or Java
- 3+ years of experience in technical leadership and software architecture
- Experience with pricing, effort estimation, and contribution to commercial proposals.
- Experience working in the government sector, or compliance-heavy environments
- Strong understanding of AI-related solutions, including the ability to design and position AI-enabled systems and integrations in pre-sales engagements
- Hands-on experience supporting proposal work, especially RFP and RFI responses and technical bid activities
- Good understanding of enterprise architecture, cloud (AWS and Azure), cybersecurity, integration, data, and modern delivery practices
- Ability to define architecture drivers, quality attributes, constraints, and trade-offs for complex solutions
- Strong understanding of non-functional requirements, including performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and reliability. Familiarity with ISO 25010 and practical experience in NFR gathering and validation is a plus
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex topics in a simple way
- Confidence in senior stakeholder discussions and the ability to build trusted advisor relationships with clients
- Business-focused thinking, flexibility, including the ability to connect technical recommendations with client goals and business impact
- At least Upper-Intermediate English is preferred, especially for proposal work and client communication
- Advanced or Native Ukrainian language
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Analyze customer needs reflected in tenders, RFPs, RFIs, and procurement requirements
- Gather and synthesize business needs, constraints, and limitations across multiple stakeholders to define architecture drivers and quality attributes
- Perform and own ballpark estimations and high-level risk evaluation
- Design end-to-end solution concepts, architectural vision, technical stack, work breakdown structure, delivery approaches, and technical responses
- Review and compare solution options using trade-off analysis and other structured evaluation methods
- Work closely with sales organization, business analysts, UX designers, engagement managers, and domain experts to shape competitive proposals
- Prepare technical proposal content, including architecture vision and diagrams, assumptions, risks, work breakdown structure, estimates, pricing input, and compliance-related input
- Support workshops, discovery sessions, presentations, and proposal presentations
- Ensure proposed solutions are feasible, secure, competitive, and aligned with delivery capabilities
- Develop proofs of concept or quick prototypes to support the technical vision and reduce solution risk
- Contribute to statements of work, team qualifications, compliance matrices, technical narratives, and delivery team composition concepts
- Communicate complex technical ideas in a clear way to both technical and business stakeholders.
- Support transition from presales to delivery phase through knowledge transfer and architectural supervision at project start
- Continuously contribute to improvements in team collaboration, processes, templates, and outcomes
Skills Required
- 8+ years of software development experience with .NET, JavaScript, or Java
- 3+ years of technical leadership and software architecture experience
- Experience with pricing, effort estimation, and contribution to commercial proposals
- Experience working in the government sector or compliance-heavy environments
- Strong understanding of AI-related solutions and ability to design/position AI-enabled systems in presales
- Hands-on experience supporting proposal work, especially RFP and RFI responses and technical bid activities
- Good understanding of enterprise architecture, cloud (AWS and Azure), integration, data, and modern delivery practices
- Good understanding of cybersecurity considerations for enterprise solutions
- Ability to define architecture drivers, quality attributes, constraints, and trade-offs for complex solutions
- Strong understanding of non-functional requirements (performance, security, scalability, maintainability, reliability)
- Familiarity with ISO 25010 and practical experience in NFR gathering and validation
- Strong communication and presentation skills; ability to explain complex topics simply
- Confidence in senior stakeholder discussions and ability to build trusted advisor relationships
- Business-focused thinking and ability to connect technical recommendations with client goals and business impact
- At least Upper-Intermediate English
- Advanced or Native Ukrainian language
ELEKS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ELEKS and has not been reviewed or approved by ELEKS.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Well-being support is positioned as a meaningful part of the package, including mental-health/psychological support and wellness offerings in some locations. Flexible work options (remote-friendly/hybrid and flexible hours) also add day-to-day lifestyle value beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off coverage is described as broad, with paid vacation and sick leave plus additional paid days for life events and the option for unpaid days. Sabbatical-like options are also referenced, suggesting additional flexibility for extended leave in some circumstances.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Long-term rewards include opportunities to buy company shares or convert a yearly bonus into shares. This provides an additional wealth-building path beyond salary for eligible employees.
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What We Do
ELEKS is the partner of choice for many of the world's leading enterprises, SMEs and technology challengers. We help businesses elevate their value through custom software development, product design, QA and consultancy services. We deliver high tech innovations to Fortune 500 companies, big enterprises and technology challengers, improving the ways they work and boosting the value they create for the modern world. Our 2000+ professionals located in the Delivery Centers across Eastern Europe and sales offices in Europe, the US and UK, provide our clients with a full range of software services. These include dedicated teams, product development, R&D and technology consulting. For more information, please visit: eleks.com
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