We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect to help design and deliver secure, scalable, and cost-effective technology solutions across our EV charging business. You'll focus on detailed solution design and technical architecture within specific domains such as consumer-facing applications, store/site operations, supply chain or payment systems.
This role is ideal for an experienced Architect who brings strong hands-on expertise, thrives in delivery-focused environments and is ready to take ownership of solutions for focused projects or components within larger products/programs. You will work closely with technical leads and delivery teams to turn business needs into robust digital solutions.
In this role you will:
Solution Design & Delivery
- Design detailed, modular solution architectures that align with established patterns, roadmaps, and business needs
- Lead the solution design for small-to-medium initiatives or contribute to larger architecture workstreams
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure high-quality implementation aligned with architecture principles
- Deliver solution architecture artefacts including sequence diagrams, interface contracts, deployment models and integration flows
Technology & Standards
- Apply MACH principles (Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless) and cloud-native design approaches, ideally with AWS services
- Ensure foundational elements like security, observability, and integration are built into every solution
- Work within defined architecture standards, helping to evolve patterns and reusable frameworks
Collaboration & Delivery Enablement
- Partner with business and technology teams to understand requirements and define pragmatic solutions
- Support agile delivery teams by providing ongoing architectural guidance during implementation
- Translate architectural decisions into actionable technical designs and development tasks
- Lead the Architecture review board and ensure robust governance
- Provide functional assurance
Compliance & Risk Management
- Embed security and compliance standards (identity, encryption, data protection) in solution designs
- Identify risks and issues early, proposing mitigation strategies aligned with architecture governance
What you will need to be successful
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering or equivalent experience
- Significant years in hands-on solution architecture or technical leadership roles
- Hands-on experience across multiple programming languages and technologies
- Experience designing and delivering solutions using cloud-native architectures, ideally on AWS
- Proficiency in integration design patterns, API architecture (REST, event-driven), and microservices
- Good understanding of architecture domains (application, data, infrastructure, integration and security)
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and experience with CI/CD pipelines and agile delivery
- Solid grasp of architecture patterns and trade-offs, with the ability to perform solution analysis and present clear recommendations
- Experience in one or more relevant domains: Retail Site/Store systems, Payment processing, EV charging, Supply chain or Customer/Consumer facing applications (web/mobile)
Desirable criteria
- Exposure to technologies like IoT, RFID, Digital Twin, or Telematics
- Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect (preferred but not mandatory)
- Passion for engineering excellence and continuous improvement
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to articulate architecture decisions clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- A problem-solver who enjoys hands-on involvement and learning by doing
- Product and customer-centric attitude, with an eye for balancing innovation and execution
Benefits and environment
- Different bonus opportunities based on performance, wide range of cafeteria elements
- Life & health insurance, medical care package
- Hybrid working arrangement aligned with team arrangements and business needs
- Opportunity to build a long-term career path and develop your skills with a wide range of learning options
- Eligibility to join bp's Global ShareMatch plan, a non-contractual benefit that lets employees buy bp shares and receive matching shares, in line with plan rules
- Family friendly workplace, e.g. extended parental leave, mother-baby room
- Employee wellbeing programs, e.g. Employee Assistance Program, Company Recognition Program
- Possibility to join our social communities and networks
- Chill-out and collaboration spaces in the Budapest Agora and Szeged offices, e.g. play zones, office massage, sport and music equipment
Additional information
- Negligible travel should be expected with this role
- This role is eligible for relocation within country
- This position is a hybrid of office/remote working
Skills: Agility core practices, Business modelling, Creativity and Innovation, Data Analysis, Data design, Digital Analytics, Emerging technology monitoring, Information Assurance, Integration, IT Management, IT strategy and planning, Network Design, Requirements definition and management, Risk Management, Service operations and resiliency, Solution Architecture, Systems Development Management, Technical specialism, User Experience Analysis
