Pollard Digital Solutions is looking for a passionate, self-motivated, and experienced Senior Application Architect to join our Architecture team. In this role, you will be responsible for the architecture and technical capabilities of the Pollard Lottery Solution. The Principal Application Architect works with business stakeholders, product managers, and technology teams to drive the development of application architectures for Pollard Banknote’s world-class lottery platform, products and gaming experiences.
You will work collaboratively with the team of architects to ensure alignment with the overall application architecture, and closely with the Principal Product Managers to shape the business and technical capabilities of the Pollard Lottery Solution.
Supervisor
The Principal Application Architect is appointed by and reports directly to the Director of Architecture, Gaming Solutions.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the architecture development process for complex, cross-domain solutions supporting product roadmaps and customer implementations.
- Engage with customers and product teams to implement our products and services with an understanding of each customer’s unique operating environment, strategies and goals.
- Participate in defining and executing technical strategy in cooperation with the architecture team.
- Work collaboratively with an extended team of domain and technology architects to focus on the alignment of all aspects of the architecture, inclusive of business, application, information and technology.
- Research, analyze and translate stakeholder requirements into architectural needs – both functional and non-functional.
- Lead PoCs that to evaluate architecture and technical options.
- Perform research and architecture assessments on third-party solutions, and platform components.
- Facilitate well-reasoned and efficient architecture decision-making and recommendations.
- Ensure system architectures are consistent with the organizational technology strategy.
- Mentor junior architects and lead cross-functional teams in understanding complex problem spaces through new mental models and architecture diagrams.
- Improve the understandability of complex problem spaces with new mental models and architecture diagrams.
- Provide expertise in some architectural domains, based on your unique experience and skillsets.
- Monitor the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging of the technologies used by the application, or misalignment with business requirements.
- Support product development teams with architecture research, capability roadmaps, assessments and recommendations.
- Support business development activities through customer needs analysis, solution architecture, and the development of functional and non-functional architectural specifications.
Who You Are
- You have a forward-thinking, innovative, yet pragmatic approach to architecting solutions.
- You have an equal part focus on driving business value and quality architectures.
- You are a professional and collaborative team player that views solution architecture as an enabler.
- You practice servant leadership, empowering your teams and fostering a supportive and collaborative environment.
- Security-minded person.
Qualifications
- Good Understanding of cloud-based development methodologies, microservice architecture, and state-of-the-art software application design patterns
- Ability to articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders
- Strong visual communication and diagramming skills
- Lightweight project management skills backed by strong personal and team organizational abilities.
- 10+ years of experience in Software Development
- 4+ years of engineering leadership experience – managing multiple teams and/or locations
- A Bachelor’s or Master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a similar field
- Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership, positive attitude, and delivery focus
Our Offer
We emphasize having a great working environment and offer the following to our employees:
- Extensive training when entering the company as well as throughout the employment introducing new technologies and work methods
- Modern office space in Belgrade
- High quality office equipment
- Agile work methodologies
- Private health insurance
- Happy Fridays
- Social activities
- Events that encourage innovation
- Being part of one of the largest Gaming Company in Europe
- Participate in the growth of the office in Belgrade
- Work in an international environment
- Opportunity to learn and grow
- Possibility of traveling
Pollard Digital Solutions is a full-solution supplier of lottery management and iLottery technology for world-wide lottery markets. The company is owned by Pollard Banknote Ltd. – a leading partner to more than 60 lotteries worldwide, providing high quality instant ticket products, licensed games, retail merchandising solutions, and a full suite of digital offerings. Established in 1907 in Winnipeg, Canada, Pollard Banknote is owned approximately 66.7% by the Pollard family and is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (PBL).
Our objective is to deliver the most innovative solutions that will render industry-leading returns to good causes in an ethically responsible way. We emphasize a friendly, lively and respectful workplace atmosphere, where team spirit is highly valued.
Please submit your resume in English language. All applications will be handled with confidentiality. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
