Senior Solution Architect

Job description

The Senior Solution Architect is responsible for designing robust, scalable, secure, and business-aligned technology solutions that translate business and functional requirements into end-to-end architecture. The role ensures that proposed solutions are consistent with enterprise architecture principles, standards, security requirements, integration patterns, data requirements, technology direction, and operational needs. · Translate business, functional, and non-functional requirements into end-to-end solution architectures. · Develop high-level solution designs covering applications, integration, data, infrastructure, cloud, security, and deployment architecture. · Ensure proposed solutions comply with enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and technology strategies. · Assess solution options and recommend architecture approaches based on business value, feasibility, scalability, security, interoperability, and total cost of ownership. · Define integration requirements, interfaces, APIs, messaging patterns, and dependencies between enterprise systems. · Identify solution-level data requirements, information flows, data ownership dependencies, and integration with enterprise data platforms. · Define infrastructure, hosting, cloud, network, resilience, availability, and disaster recovery architecture requirements. · Embed cybersecurity, privacy, identity, access control, and compliance requirements into the solution architecture. · Conduct architecture reviews, technical design assurance, and solution compliance assessments. · Identify technical risks, architectural constraints, dependencies, assumptions, and mitigation actions. · Collaborate with enterprise architects, domain architects, business teams, project managers, developers, infrastructure teams, security teams, and vendors. · Support technology selection, vendor evaluation, RFP development, proposal assessment, and solution demonstrations. · Provide architectural guidance throughout the solution lifecycle from concept and design through implementation and transition. · Support modernization initiatives including cloud adoption, application modernization, API enablement, integration transformation, and legacy replacement. · Contribute to architecture governance forums and Architecture Review Boards

Requirements

• · Minimum 10 years of overall experience in information technology, solution design, software engineering, infrastructure, integration, cloud, or related technical domains
• · At least 5 years of hands-on experience in solution architecture or a comparable senior architecture role
• · Demonstrated experience designing complex enterprise solutions involving multiple applications, systems, platforms, and integration points
• · Experience working on large-scale transformation, digital, modernization, or enterprise technology programs
• · Strong exposure to both current-state assessment and target-state solution architecture
• · Experience working with senior business and technology stakeholders in complex organizations
• Core Competencies
• · End-to-end solution architecture
• · Application and platform architecture
• · Data and information flow design
• · Cloud and hybrid architecture
• · Infrastructure and deployment architecture
• · Security-by-design
• · Architecture governance and design assurance
• · Technical risk and dependency management
• · Technology evaluation and solution option analysis
• · Stakeholder management and consulting
• Preferred Frameworks, Standards & Methods
• · UML
• · BPMN where relevant
• · Cloud architecture frameworks and well-architected principles
• · API and integration architecture patterns
• · Microservices and event-driven architecture principles
• · SABSA or equivalent security architecture practices
• · ITIL and DevOps / DevSecOps concepts

Skills