Solutions Architect

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain a deep understanding of the enterprise architecture and translate it into practical implementation patterns for feature teams
• Evaluate proposed designs and implementation plans for alignment with architectural standards, scalability requirements, and operational best practices
• Define and enforce non-functional requirements including availability, reliability, performance, and security across deployed solutions
• Identify architectural risks in team designs early and prescribe mitigation strategies before they reach production
• Serve as a subject matter expert in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and integration patterns relevant to the organization's technology stack
• Review infrastructure-as-code, deployment configurations, and system integrations to ensure they meet availability and resilience standards
• Drive adoption of architectural patterns such as fault tolerance, graceful degradation, circuit breaking, and observability across teams
• Evaluate emerging technologies and tools to determine alignment with enterprise architecture standards and the organization’s current capabilities and maturity
• Facilitate architecture review sessions and design discussions across teams, building shared understanding and consensus
• Translate enterprise architecture directives into team-level implementation requirements that are specific and actionable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field
• Minimum 8–10 years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure
• Minimum 3+ years spent in a dedicated Architecture or Principal Engineer role
• Prior experience within a Fortune 500 environment or large enterprise is required
• Experience translating complex technical risks into clear, value-driven business language for executive stakeholders
• Deep mastery of API management, event-driven architectures, and integrating legacy enterprise ERP systems
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written and oral form or via DRH applications
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and peripheral vision
• The noise level is generally moderate

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree
• Advanced knowledge of identity management protocols, encryption standards, and enterprise compliance practices