Product Architect (Architecture) - Cashless Expertise

Location:

Warsaw, PL, 00-807

Requisition ID: 17669

Brightstar is an innovative, forward-thinking global leader in lottery that builds on our renowned expertise in delivering secure technology and producing reliable, comprehensive solutions for our customers. As a premier pure play global lottery company, our best-in-class lottery operations, retail and digital solutions, and award-winning lottery games enable our customers to achieve their goals, fulfill player needs and distribute meaningful benefits to communities. Brightstar has a well-established local presence and is a trusted partner to governments and regulators around the world, creating value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. Brightstar has approximately 6,000 employees. For more information, please visit www.brightstarlottery.com.

Overview

The Product Architecture team offers architecture support to Product Management and Engineering. Guiding good product composition and integration in readiness for release and customer integration.

Additionally, they offer site specific services like technology stack evaluation and recommendations, customized customer integration mentorship, and in-depth assistance on persistent issues.

The Product Architect (Architect) makes decisions on the build and technical integrations and roadmap choices for Brightstar Products and customer deployed solutions.

What You Will Be Doing

The Architect role has key tasks that they work towards:

• Product Architecture – when necessary, define or evolve a product architecture based on new requirements or overall system needs.
• Solution Architecture – when required by System Architecture, help define a particular decision or solution for a customer deployment to guide Brightstar development and customer technical leads.
• Architecture Strategy – help guide Brightstar engineering and product towards technologies and an architecture that meets business needs, being responsible for key development decisions when necessary.
  
  

What You Bring

• Product Architecture Ownership – Support the analysis and consolidation of requirements into technical solutions that inform product roadmaps and guide engineering development.
• Focus on Delivery Optimization – Find opportunities for improvement that improve the implementation of architectural solutions. Contribute to evolving ways of working and refining deliverables to boost robustness and efficiency.
• Apply architectural and system composition knowledge to support key decision-making in product and solution development. Communicate trade-offs clearly and help collaborators evaluate options based on cost, complexity, performance, and maintainability.
• Practical Engagement – Actively contribute when needed to establish technical foundations or assist in resolving critical engineering challenges.
• Effective Communication and Facilitation – Operate confidently in dynamic environments with diverse collaborators. Navigate differing perspectives, foster alignment, and drive strategic and architectural discussions toward actionable outcomes.
  
  

In addition, you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or relevant work experience, with 5+ years in business systems analysis or product owner role in enterprise
• A solid grasp of product management and agile software development techniques, with knowledge of contemporary product composition and management tools
• A solid understanding of software architecture and development principles, including patterns, modularity, scalability, and lifecycle management
• Strong knowledge of Java and its ecosystem, including common frameworks and technologies such as Spring, JPA/Hibernate, RESTful APIs, Maven/Gradle, and unit/integration testing frameworks
• Familiarity with frontend technologies (e.g., HTML, JavaScript, React/Angular) at a conceptual level to support end-to-end build discussions
• Familiarity with public cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, or GCP), including deployment models, native services, and architectural considerations for cloud-native systems
• Awareness of security principles, including data protection, authentication and authorization, secure communication, and secure system construction
• Conceptual understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform, ARM/Bicep, or CloudFormation) and DevOps tools and practices, such as CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of TOGAF and Archimate frameworks is a plus
• Ability to travel (up to 15% of time)
• Ability to work across multiple time zones if required
  
  

Keys to Success

• Building collaborative relationships
• Decision making
• Drive results
• Foster innovation
• Personal energy
• Self-leadership
  
  

Brightstar is committed to sustaining a workforce that reflects the diversity of the global customers and communities we serve, and to creating a fair and inclusive culture that enables all our employees to feel valued, respected and engaged. Brightstar is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, citizenship, covered veteran status, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, or any other legally protected status in accordance with applicable local, state, federal laws or other laws. We thank all applicants for applying; however, only those selected to interview will be contacted.

All Brightstar employees have a role in information security. Annual training will be assigned and required as appropriate.

For more information, please visit www.brightstarlottery.com.