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.
Key Responsibilities

- 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.

Feature-Level Architecture

- 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.

- Technical Strategy & Roadmap
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.

AI-Augmented Ways of Working

- 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.

Cross-Group & Initiative Collaboration

- Represent the group in initiative-level architecture forums; partner with cross-group architects