Lead Solution Architect Job Details

Lead Solution Architect

Job Location: Lodz

Location Flexibility: Multiple Locations in Country

Req Id: 5809

Posting Start Date: 2/16/26

At Fujitsu, our purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. Founded in Japan in 1935, Fujitsu has been a pioneer in technology and innovation for decades. Today, as a world-leading digital transformation partner, we are committed to transforming business and society in the digital age.

With approximately 130,000 employees across over 50 countries, Fujitsu offers a broad range of products, services, and solutions. We collaborate with our customers to co-create solutions that drive enterprise-wide digitalization while actively working to address social issues and contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Job Title: Lead Solution Architect

The Opportunity: We are seeking a highly experienced and visionary Lead Solution Architect to join our Architects' team.

The role holder may manage a large design team.
They work at senior management level to define and deliver major technical projects/strategies/architectures, demonstrating an understanding of the customers’ business and commercial issues and contribute key insights.
Responsible for the design and communication of high-level structures to enable and guide the design and development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs. Changes to service, process, organization, operating model and other aspects may be required in addition to technology components, and solutions must demonstrate how agreed requirements (such as automation of business processes) are met, any requirements which are not fully met or, and any options or considerations which require a business decision.
The provision of comprehensive guidance on the development of, and modifications to, solution components to ensure that they take account of relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices and that existing and planned solution components remain compatible.

Key Responsibilities:

Authority. Defines major technical projects for customers or Fujitsu, influencing their view of acceptable investment level. Determines strategies, architectures and proposals.
Shapes technical proposals to be acceptable to the customer and may make solution/service trade-offs.
Cost and risk. May manage a large design team, defining the approach to larger/more complex solution development and acceptance testing, and identifying strategic level risks and remedies.
Influence. Determines the approach to whole classes of business, leading and influencing others in the development of new offerings.
Business development. Works with customers to understand their business strategy and develop IT strategies and architecture for significant areas of their business.
Requirements and design. Manages a team to agree customer requirements and produce the design, setting high level criteria for the design of major solutions and exercising design control over the implementation.
Thought leadership. Communicates the impact of emerging technologies on customer and Fujitsu business to senior level customers and Fujitsu businesses.
Knowledge re-use. Shares knowledge with colleagues and makes useful additions to the Fujitsu knowledge base.
Regularly has large, complex designs, incorporating trade-offs from the original specification, accepted by the relevant business approval review, without any requirement for design changes.
Authors design and test documents for large, complex infrastructures, whose risk and cost elements are accepted by the overall Architect or Project Manager.
Responsible for acceptance of risk and cost elements for small/medium solutions created by other architects.
Can evidence regular contributions to customer forums, conferences and professional bodies.
Tangible recognition from customers and/or Fujitsu’s sales of being a major influence in the customer choosing Fujitsu.
Using company prescribed methodologies, can demonstrate a contribution to the definition of customer overall IT architecture, including new solutions of significant size and complexity and which contain solution components from contributing specialists.
Regular contribution to, and user of, company knowledge repositories and events.
Recognize where risk exists and communicate that risk to the appropriate channels
Exhibit leadership in terms of proactivity and always thinking customer first
Identifies reasons and weaknesses in process and/or shortcomings in technical capability
Encourages the use of best practice across the team, including documenting and sharing with others
Participation in obligatory training courses to which the employer will refer the employee.

Behavioral Competencies:

Strong Interpersonal and operational skills
People-management skills
Ability to influence others

Professional Competencies:

Solution architect (ARCH) Level 5
Business risk management (BURM) Level 5
Methods & tools (METL) Level 5
Data management (DATM) Level 5
T2T Migration Experience
Migration tools experience: BitTitan, Quest, ShareGate

Relocation Supported:

Visa Sponsorship Approved:

At Fujitsu, we are committed to an inclusive recruitment process that values the diverse backgrounds and experiences of all applicants. We believe that hiring people from a wide variety of backgrounds makes us stronger, not because it's the right thing to do, but because it allows us to draw on a wider range of perspectives and life experiences.