Enterprise Architect

Solaris is Europe’s leading embedded finance platform, pioneering Banking-as-a-Service to bridge the gap between financial technology and licensed banking. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Berlin, Solaris enables fintechs, digital ecosystems, and multinationals to embed accounts, cards, lending, and payments directly into their own products, creating seamless financial experiences for their users. As a fully licensed German bank, Solaris combines the highest standards of IT security and regulatory resilience with a modular, highly scalable infrastructure.

Today, Solaris is driving the next evolution of financial services by transitioning into an AI-native banking platform, ensuring European businesses can deploy secure, adaptable financial products at scale.

Why join Solaris?

• 🚀 We are fundamentally redesigning banking processes around AI orchestration, standardized modular building blocks, and embedded regulatory compliance.
• 🎯 We combine tech and banking in dedicated hubs - driving the technology infrastructure out of Berlin and banking operations out of Frankfurt.
• 💡 Through our internal mobility, growth opportunities, and the Solaris Academy, we offer continuous learning tracks, AI ambassador mentorship, and upskilling to keep your skills ahead of the curve.
• ⚖️ We foster a workplace rooted in integrity, proactive risk management, and equality actively driving initiatives like DEI initiatives.

Your Role

• Ensure that enterprise product strategy and architecture strategy match, reinforce each other, and drive business value. This includes shaping the enterprise's AI adoption strategy - identifying where AI creates measurable leverage. Strike the right balance between long-term elegance, enterprise scalability, and short-term pragmatism.
• Provide authoritative architectural and technical guidance to senior stakeholders and the broader Tech area. Define and enforce enterprise-wide engineering standards, best practices, and architectural guardrails.
• Lead the design of complex, multi-domain systems. Actively participate in high-stakes architectural discussions, utilizing prototypes and proofs-of-concept to validate enterprise-level solutions before widespread rollout.
• Drive the department's overarching technical roadmap. Evaluate the current tech portfolio, manage technical debt at an organizational level, and guide "build vs. buy" decisions.
• Act as a multiplier for technical talent. Help senior engineers and technical leads grow in their craft, fostering a culture of cross-team collaboration and architectural excellence. 

We'd love to see 

Depending on your level of experience, your responsibilities and scope of role will range. We don’t care much about fancy titles, but rather about real personal and professional development, as laid out in our learning framework. Let’s figure together out how you can contribute to our team.