Senior Solution Architect (Consultant / B2B Contractor)
Quadro Consulting is founded in2014 in Bonn, Germany. Our company has been successfully delivering IT solutions to long-term clients across various industries including:Dating, Gaming, Payments & Finance, Printing & Marketing, Education and many more.
This is an opportunity for an experienced Solution Architect to support a diverse range of client projects and consulting engagements through a flexible B2B collaboration model. You will be our go-to person for defining high-level technical architectures across a wide variety of client engagements - from RPA and process automation, to custom software development, to AI/ML solutions, to security and infrastructure.
The core of this role is RFP response and pre-sales support: you receive a brief or RFP, quickly understand the domain and constraints, and produce a credible, well-structured architecture proposal. You work fast, with limited context, and deliver clarity where there was ambiguity.
What you'll be doing:
- Analyze RFPs, client briefs, and discovery outputs to produce high-level solution architectures under tight timelines.
- Design end-to-end architectures spanning cloud, AI, integrations, security, and automation.
- Lead or support technical discovery sessions, client workshops, and architecture reviews.
- Translate business requirements into system designs including integrations, data flows, APIs, security, and scalability.
- Create architecture documentation, solution diagrams, and technical sections for proposals.
- Provide architectural guidance during project delivery and support delivery teams in critical design decisions.
- Evaluate and recommend technologies, platforms, and approaches relevant to each engagement.
- Review existing architectures and recommend modernization strategies.
What you bring:
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or technical consulting.
- Broad technical range - able to architect solutions across different domains: enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, AI/ML, RPA, security, data platforms.
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, APIs, integration patterns, and modern application architectures.
- Experience with pre-sales, proposal writing, or RFP response processes.
- Understanding of security, governance, scalability, and reliability best practices.
- Experience in consulting or agency environments with multiple parallel client engagements.
Key Soft Skills for Success:
- Exceptional Communication Skills - able to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Fast Learning Ability - can absorb a new domain or technology area quickly and produce meaningful output with minimal onboarding.
- Pragmatic Mindset - delivers "good enough" architectures on deadline rather than perfect architectures too late.
- Strong Presentation Skills - comfortable leading workshops, presenting to clients, and defending architectural decisions.
- Team-oriented Approach - works well with delivery teams, PMs, and stakeholders across time zones.
Nice To Have:
- Hands-on experience with Generative AI, LLM-based solutions, AI agents, RAG architectures, orAI platform design.
- Experience with RPA platforms (UiPath, Power Automate, or similar).
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
- Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Microsoft, AWS, TOGAF, or other relevant architecture certifications.
- Experience with solution estimation and effort/cost modeling for proposals.
Collaboration Model
- B2B contract engagement.
- Project-based and on-demand consulting opportunities.
- Hourly compensation model.
- Flexible level of involvement, depending on project demands.
- Primarily remote work, with occasional participation in client or internal workshops as needed.
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