Software Architect; m​/f​/d

Position:
Software Architect (m/f/d)

Location:

Available to candidates located in Poland

We are seeking a seasoned Software Architect (m/f/d) to own the technical vision and direction for a strategic cloud engineering group at Aras — the team behind our next‑generation, cloud‑native services that redefine how PLM data is accessed, integrated, and composed across the enterprise.

This is a high‑impact, high‑autonomy role at the intersection of platform architecture, product delivery, and engineering leadership. You will set the architectural north star across three cross‑functional teams and two production SaaS services — a low‑code API management platform and a frontend application toolkit — shaping the foundation that thousands of PLM users and integrations depend on every day. You will also engage directly with customers and partners — gathering real‑world feedback, validating architectural decisions against production use cases, and representing Aras's technical vision externally.

We are looking for someone who doesn't just tolerate AI‑assisted ways of working — but actively leads by example: using AI to accelerate architecture exploration, produce high‑quality design artifacts faster, and raise the bar for what a small team can deliver.

If you thrive on solving hard distributed systems problems, love driving clarity in complex multi‑team environments, and want your architectural decisions to matter at product scale — this role is for you.

• Domain Architecture
• Define and own the group's target architecture: domain boundaries, core components, service responsibilities, and key integrations — and keep it intentionally evolving, not just initiative‑driven.
• Set and enforce technical direction and guardrails across all teams, ensuring design consistency and coherence at scale.
• Act as the final technical decision‑maker within the group's domain; evaluate and approve major design proposals, refactors, and technology changes.
• Author and maintain architecture documentation and governance artifacts — reference architectures, ADRs, design principles.

• Lead architecture elaboration at the feature level: scope, design, and document architectural solutions for new capabilities quickly and to a high standard.
• Produce clear, well‑structured architecture diagrams and design artifacts that teams can act on immediately — using AI tooling to accelerate output without sacrificing quality.
• Validate feasibility of proposed solutions early; surface architectural risks, constraints, and trade‑offs during discovery.
• Propose solution options and help product and engineering teams make confident, well‑informed decisions.

• Own the group's technical roadmap: identify, prioritize, and drive resolution of technical debt, architectural risks, and modernization opportunities.
• Define domain‑level non‑functional requirements — performance, security, reliability, observability — and ensure they are met consistently across services.
• Guide PoCs and architectural spikes to reduce uncertainty and de‑risk delivery, without owning execution.

• Actively champion and model AI‑assisted architecture practices across the group: use AI agents and tools for architecture exploration, design generation, documentation, and diagramming.
• Drive adoption of AI agents within engineering workflows — identifying opportunities where AI can accelerate delivery, reduce toil, or improve output quality.
• Lead the group's efforts to make codebases and repositories more AI‑friendly: improving structure, documentation, and conventions so AI tooling can be applied effectively by all engineers.
• Stay current on the evolving AI tooling landscape and bring relevant practices into the group proactively.

• Represent the group in initiative‑level architecture forums; partner with cross‑group architects on shared platform solutions.
• Translate initiative goals into group‑level architectural scope and sequencing, protecting domain integrity while enabling delivery velocity.
• Collaborate with cloud infrastructure, Dev Sec Ops , and security partners to ensure…