Solutions Architect

About the role

The Solutions Architect leads the design of advanced end-to-end architectures for complex, high-impact initiatives. This role serves as a strategic technical leader, partnering with business and IT stakeholders to design advanced, end-to-end solution architectures for complex, high-impact initiatives across Revenue Management, Invoicing & Controls (RMIC).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across organizational boundaries to ensure alignment to enterprise strategies and provide technical leadership across multiple initiatives.
• Contribute to driving architectural excellence across the business unit and guiding teams through strategic transformation.
• Drive transformation across Agile Release Trains (ARTs), large programs, and business-with-technology initiatives.
• Focus on long-term architecture and strategy for enterprise pricing, rating, invoicing, and settlement platforms.
• Partner with business and IT architects to assess impacts, decompose, and analyze strategic initiatives, and define architectural guidance for program-level and cross-functional teams.
• Develop plans for and facilitate the migration from current to selected future state by providing technical leadership to multiple initiatives.
• Mentor those in less senior positions.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide conceptual and technical guidance, defining and applying architectural patterns in collaboration with enterprise and solution architects.
• Develop strategic roadmaps that support the transition to a target future state aligned with business and technology priorities.
• Analyze complex problems or proposals and provide clear, actionable recommendations.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise strategies, business objectives, standards, and methodologies.
• Identify and communicate both strategic and tactical solution options, influencing and negotiating with stakeholders at all levels.
• Present architecture concepts and recommendations to both technical and non-technical executive audiences.

Skills and Knowledge

• Experience defining and implementing information architecture, principles, and standards.
• Prior leadership of application architecture initiatives.
• Background in project management, systems analysis, and solution design.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Proficiency with Enterprise Architect (Sparx) for planning, modeling, and governing architecture.
• Experience working in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Additional Desired Skills

• Knowledge of high-availability, resiliency, and disaster-recovery patterns.
• Understanding of observability and reliability engineering concepts.