Cloud Architect (Krakow, Poland)
Who We Are
Founded in 2017, Unit8 is a fast-growing Swiss AI and data analytics consulting and services company dedicated to solving complex problems of traditional industries like automotive, chemical, financial services, manufacturing and pharma. We work with some of the biggest organisations in Europe to solve the challenges that directly affect their business - be it operations, finance, manufacturing or R&D. Since our foundation, we have successfully delivered more than 135 projects and have grown to 100+ talented individuals across 5 office locations.
Unit8’s mission is to drive the adoption of AI and Data Science in the non-digital industries and to help accelerate their digital transformation. Among its activities, Unit8 dedicates a part of its resources and time on projects that deeply matter to us - that includes collaboration on pro-bono and “engineering for good” causes. You can learn more about what we are passionate about at Unit8 Talks and on our website you can find more useful information about our business and recruiting process.
These are some examples of projects that we have been working on
- Building a real-time production line monitoring system for the pharmaceutical industry in order to improve the throughput of the production processes for the Pharmaceutical Industry. Technologies: AWS, EKS, CloudFormation, Docker, Python
- Building system for calculating and delivering global climate scores i.e. estimating the impact of climate change on the risk of natural disasters (i.e. floods, wildfires & droughts) for the Insurance Industry. Technologies: PySpark, Python, Proprietary Data Processing Platform
- Building a modern data science platform including a data lake for Chemical Industry. Technologies: Azure, ML Studio, Data Factory, Databricks, Spark
Are You the team member we are looking for?
Unit8 is looking for a Cloud Architect to join our team in Krakow. You will be part of diverse project teams and will partner with our engineers and data scientists to deliver cloud solutions for our clients.
- You have strong hands-on experience with cloud architecture design and implementation on one of the following platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP.
- You have experience with cloud migration, hybrid environments, and cloud security best practices.
- You have a solid technical background and engineering experience with conceptualising, strategising, and architecting cloud solutions. Prior experience with consulting and building solutions for enterprise customers is a plus.
- You are passionate about your Data and Analytics domain and like to introduce new improvements that make sense and are pragmatic for the end-users, helping them to derive value out of their data.
- You are outcome-focused and you have a customer-service-oriented mindset.
- Your are open to tackle new areas and challenges like designing and building novel AI & Data Science stacks or setting up MLOps infrastructure
- You have strong client-facing skills: comfortable interacting with clients (business & technical audience), delivering presentations, problem-solving mindset.
- You are eligible to register as a sole trader (self-employment) in Poland.
What You'll do
At Unit8 we build a wide range of applications for our clients in various industries, as well as internal tools, each with their own set of challenges. In general, you will:
- Design, propose, build and maintain Data & Cloud architectures in close collaboration with the key stakeholders. Specifically, you will tackle challenges related to modern Data & AI cloud-native stacks.
- Be a trusted advisor to our enterprise business customers and their CIO/CTO/CDO/Head of Platform functions.
- Participate in customer meetings, and visit the clients on-site when needed, to discuss the specific solutions you’re designing and implementing
- Audit cloud architectures in terms of functionality and security gaps as well as suggesting and following through on improvements.
What we offer
- Opportunity to shape the expansion of one of the leading Swiss data & AI consultancies
- Compensation package including base salary, yearly bonus based on the both individual + company performance
- Above the norm flexibility regarding when and from where you work as long as both client and internal commitments are met
- Work on cutting-edge data, AI & analytics topics (e.g., Generative AI) that have real impact across industries
- Dedicated time and budget for training and pro-bono projects
- 30 paid days off
- Private health care and Multisport
- Cross offices/company-wide frequent events (off-site or online) as well as quarterly budget to spend with the team on after-work activities
