Senior Solution Architect

Circle K Business Centre Warsaw is a shared service center supporting Circle K Europe across IT, Finance, Human Resources, Customer Service and other business areas. Circle K is part of Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., one of the world’s largest convenience retail companies, operating globally across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, with over 12,300 locations worldwide. Our continuously growing development organization (300+ IT professionals) delivers large‑scale software solutions used daily by millions of customers across Europe and North America. Senior Solution Architect Department: Global Tech , Merchandising Technology Location: Warsaw, Poland Type of employment: Permanent, Full Time (40 hours) THE ROLE We are seeking a skilled, proactive, and pragmatic Senior Solution Architect to lead the design and integration of merchandising technology solutions, focusing on the design and implementation of vendor-supplied software adapted to our business processes and technology landscape. This role is responsible for designing how systems interact and integrate, ensuring that technology solutions directly support business needs while remaining scalable, cost-effective, and maintainable. It also includes aligning technical solutions with architectural standards while prioritizing business outcomes This role is critical in bridging business needs and technology capabilities, ensuring scalable, cost-effective, and maintainable solutions are delivered. The role involves ensuring that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural standards. You’ll work closely with stakeholders across business and technology teams to ensure that implemented solutions truly enable our merchandising strategy—while also remaining sustainable, interoperable, and aligned with enterprise priorities. What You'll Do Want to start your career with us? Here's an overview of the main responsibilities of this position: • Interpret Business Needs: Translate business and technical requirements into capability maps, reference architecture and system design specifications. Collaborate with business owners, enterprise architects, product managers, technical teams, and enterprise architects to ensure future readiness • Technology Leadership: lead technical vendor assessment, RFPs, and PoC activities. Review vendor architecture, data models, integrations capabilities, and support models. Drive technical discussions with vendors and internal teams. Assess how the solutions fit into existing ecosystem, dependencies and design future state and technical roadmap. • Apply Technology: Lead the design and evolution of solution architecture, including static, dynamic, and deployment views. Ensure data flows, technical processes, and integrations are clearly designed, understood, and documented. Validate alignment with technology standards, including security, compliance, enterprise architecture guidelines, and good practices. Guide technology teams during the implementation phase and support during troubleshooting of complex problems providing architecture support • Foster strong collaboration and alignment between business and technical teams to ensure shared understanding and joint ownership of solutions What You'll Need We want you to join our team! Here's what we're looking for: Education • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Systems Analysis, or a related field—or equivalent experience. Experience • 7+ years of experience in software development or IT infrastructure. • 3+ years in a solution architecture or technical leadership role. Knowledge And Skills • Strong understanding of architecture and integration patterns, system scalability, and high-volume transactional environments. • Proven ability to work with diverse stakeholders in a multinational environment • Experience working in the fuel and convenience industry is desired, but not required. • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP). • Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines is a plus. • Proven track record of delivering large-scale and complex solutions. • Experience developing architecture diagrams, technology approaches, and roadmaps • Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences • Self-starter with the ability to bring clarity and structure to ambiguous situations Language Skills • Fluent English What Do We Offer • Contract of employment • Annual bonus • Private medical care • Cafeteria Platform/Multisport • English lessons subsidized by the company • Group insurance • Attractive discounts for products and services at our stations • Employee stock purchase plan • Employee Assistance Program (Lyra) • Modern and convenient office that you can virtually visit here - https://goo.gl/maps/CLteHfYcdYMbdESq6 • Trainings & possibility to develop skills in a wide international environment When working with us you can depend upon it that you will not be judged on the grounds of race, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Oppositely – we believe that our diverse and inclusive culture helps us create an amazing atmosphere where everybody feels welcome. Check who we are here: https://youtu.be/td-QGnNnvW0 Want to know even more about us? Take a look at our career page: https://workwithus.circlek.com/global/en/businesscentrewarsaw Interested? We encourage you to apply. We know great companies are built from within, by great people like you. Come grow with us! We´re looking forward to your application. We hereby inform that in the company Circle K Business Centre Poland sp. z o.o. with registered office in Warsaw an Internal Notification and Follow-up Actions Procedures applies. The document describes rules for reporting violations of law by whistleblowers. Full content of the above-mentioned Procedure is available here: https://www.circlek.pl/o-nas/procedury-zgloszenSen