Solutions Architect

Solution Architect Position Summary

Key Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and solution design activities for products, applications, and value-stream initiatives.
• Define end-to-end solution designs encompassing application, integration, data, infrastructure, and security components.
• Make architecture decisions that support delivery objectives while maintaining technical quality and scalability.
• Translate business requirements into actionable technical designs and implementation plans.
• Ensure solutions are built to meet both immediate delivery goals and future growth needs.
• Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, Technical Leads, and engineering teams to align architecture decisions with business priorities.
• Evaluate technical dependencies, risks, and implementation considerations to support roadmap planning.
• Provide guidance on feature scope, architectural trade-offs, and technology choices.
• Collaborate with development teams throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure successful execution.
• Facilitate technical discussions that balance customer value, technical feasibility, and operational excellence.
• Apply enterprise architecture standards, approved technology patterns, and security requirements within solution designs.
• Work closely with architecture leadership to align product-level decisions with broader organizational direction.
• Leverage shared platforms, services, and reusable capabilities whenever appropriate.
• Participate in architecture reviews and design discussions to ensure consistency and quality.
• Escalate significant architecture risks, non-standard approaches, or cross-domain challenges when necessary.
• Provide hands-on architecture support to engineering teams during design, development, and implementation efforts.
• Assist in resolving complex technical challenges that impact delivery timelines or solution quality.
• Review proposed designs and implementations to ensure alignment with architectural expectations.
• Promote effective engineering practices, maintainable system design, and high-quality technical solutions.
• Contribute to architecture knowledge sharing and best-practice development across teams.
• Provide architecture guidance during production incidents and major operational events.
• Aid in root-cause analysis and remediation planning for significant system issues.
• Ensure architectural considerations support business continuity, resilience, and service reliability requirements.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong understanding of modern application architecture, cloud technologies, APIs, integration approaches, and data-driven systems.
• Experience working within Agile, Scrum, or product-oriented delivery models.
• Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs involving cost, speed, quality, risk, and long-term maintainability.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience producing architecture artifacts, technical designs, and solution documentation.

Preferred

• Experience working in large, complex organizations with distributed technology teams.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture practices and governance frameworks.
• Experience supporting cloud modernization and digital transformation initiatives.
• Knowledge of security, compliance, and risk-management considerations within solution design.
• Exposure to platform engineering, microservices, event-driven architectures, and DevOps practices.

Key Competencies

• Solution architecture and systems design expertise.
• Strong analytical and technical problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate business objectives into practical technology solutions.
• Experience balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term architectural sustainability.
• Effective stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.
• Architecture documentation and communication skills.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, integration services, data architectures, and modern software development practices.
• Commitment to delivering secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.
• Ability to influence technical decisions through collaboration and expertise rather than authority.

Compensation

Compensation is based on a range of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications.