Solution Architect - Language​/Translation

Role Overview

As a Solution Architect on our global solution consulting team, you'll sit at the intersection of enterprise translation strategy, localisation technology, and complex deal execution. You'll shape how DeepL is positioned with respect to language and/or translation service providers, design future language AI workflows, and help build the playbooks that scale what works across the broader GTM team.

You understand modern AI stacks and language customization and localisation as a whole - governance, glossary management, QA workflows, post‑editing - and can navigate a conversation between a Localization Manager and a Head of Engineering without losing either.

• Get Inside the Customer's World

  Engage confidently with localization program managers, language operations leads, IT architects, and procurement stakeholders. Understand their content volumes, language pairs, translation management system setup, language service provider relationships, and where their current stack is failing them. Translate that into a clear picture of where DeepL creates the most impact.

• Map the Workflow Transformation

  Create the before-and-after. Map a customer's current manual‑heavy processes and fragmented localisation state against a DeepL‑centric future - demonstrating how processes gets streamlined and deliver efficiency and productivity gains to the business overall.

• Lead Technical Validation

  Design and run high‑impact POCs and architecture reviews that prove translation quality, integration feasibility, and operational efficiency. Speak authoritatively on security posture, compliance architecture, and governance to risk‑averse IT and procurement audiences.

• Shape the Practice and the Product

  Establish and refine playbooks - discovery frameworks, architecture templates, ROI models, and automation recipes - that elevate the broader GTM team. Feed structured field insight back to Product and Engineering and turn customer challenges into roadmap influence.

• 7-10+ years in Solution Architecture, Solution Consulting, or Technical Pre‑Sales - ideally within language technology, or localisation or enterprise SaaS or system integrator environment.
  
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• Strong familiarity with the modern AI and localisation stacks - MCP, CLI, Claude code, TMS, Machine translation API integration patterns, Translation Memory and Glossary workflows, CMS integrations, and REST/webhook API architecture. You don't need to have built all of these but you need to know how they fit together and where they break.
• A workflow transformation mindset - you think in before-and-after states, can map a complex enterprise content pipeline, and know how to make the case for changing something an organization has relied on for years.
• Solid understanding of the LSP model - how language service providers operate, buy, and resell MT technology.
• Security and compliance fluency - comfortable discussing data residency, security posture, and governance frameworks with IT and legal audiences in regulated industries.
• Strong enterprise instincts - you've navigated localisation program managers, IT architects, and C‑level buyers in the same deal. You can simplify complexity and make a platform transformation feel achievable.
• Fluency in English mandatory; additional language proficiency (German, French, Spanish, Italian, or Japanese) strongly preferred given our customer base.

• Diverse and internationally distributed team
  : joining our team means becoming part of a large, global community with people of more than 90 nationalities. We're more than just colleagues; we're a group of professionals with a shared mission to connect diverse cultures. Our global presence is growing–we've doubled in size nearly every year, with our employees based in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the US, and Japan, and we continue to expand our network.

• Open communication, regular feedback
  : as a language‑focused company, we value the importance of clear, honest communication. We value smooth collaboration, direct and actionable feedback, and believe that leading with empathy and growth mindset makes us better together.

• Hybrid work,…