At Nortal we believe in thinking big – creating solutions that have a meaningful, far-reaching impact, whether through digitizing governments, improved healthcare, convenient telecom services or creating a competitive edge and agility for large businesses, industry, and manufacturing companies. Our projects have touched more than half a billion people’s lives worldwide, and we’re just getting started. Combining that with the unique experience of transforming Estonia into a digital leader, our vision is to build a Seamless Society.
Join us and become a Solution Architect! At Nortal, Solution Architects are hands-on throughout the project and will contribute to higher-level and technically challenging tasks. Solution Architects are also responsible for the delivery of the overall solution and therefore must work closely with the client stakeholders and tangential client projects or teams to their assigned solution to ensure success.
Key Responsibilities:
Competent in presenting, explaining, and defending solutions and architecture to the client’s technical team.Able to consult client’s organization with regards to integrations of the system on a technical levelThe solution architect is responsible for providing documentation of the solution, including guidelines, conventions and descriptions of core concepts. Detailed low-level documentation may be delegated to the development team.To reviews SRS documents with POs before submitting to the client.Specify code quality rules, in particular regarding automating code quality checks.The solution architect specifies software design patterns to be used, with documented examples and preferably proof-of-concept implementation.Provide periodical high-level code reviews to check if guidelines are honored and communicate found issues to the development teamTo track technical debt incurred by implementation and escalates concerns to the delivery manager and PM to address the issue.Aligns with POs regarding prioritization of technical and feature tasks.To make calculated decisions that are established as non-functional requirements. Some non-functional requirements are pre-established by contracts or agreements made with the customer, other ones are internal, including tech stack choices and specific agreements between different teams on how something is implemented.Able to makes decisions based on project goals and objectives.If NFRs that are pre-established (e.g. by contract) for solution architect needs to be disputed (e.g. they don’t make sense or are not in the best interest of the project goals and objectives) then the concern is escalated to the owner of the contract (project manager by default).You are responsible for aligning business objectives with non-functional requirements by facilitating that POs talk directly to respective tech leads (solution architect directs POs towards a specific tech lead).Conflict-resolution between non-functional requirements (solution architect or tech lead) and functional requirements (product owner or system analyst) are escalated to the project manager.Manages the budget for technical activities.Required Skills:
Java, Oracle, front-end (Angular), Spring MVC, SQL Good in communication with the teams, Decision making Vendor side experience is a mustSelling ideas (various stakeholders, not fully compliant, meeting requirements, keeping scope, security consulting), defending our positions and negotiation experience Nice to have Skills:
Public sector experienceIndustry-standard certifications like TOGAFCloud Experience Why Nortal?
We hire people not only for their skills but also for cultural fit. We value teamwork, openness & honesty, constant improvement, and meaningful impact. Besides our professionalism, we like to spice things up with good humor!We care about your growth & development. Our team prioritizes constant improvement and organizes workshops for knowledge sharing. We have 1 day per month for self-learning, external and internal trainings, a mentorship program, and strong 1:1 culture.We prioritize your health & well-being by providing a flexible package for health insurance and sports initiatives.We support your work-life balance and provide flexible working hours, work from home & remote work options.
