Solution Architect

Job Title

Job Description: Requirement/Must Have:

• SaaS.
• iPaaS/ESB.
• One major cloud platform.
• Identity and access management.
• Compliance-aware design for regulated data.

Experience:

• 8+ years in software engineering.
• 4+ years in solution architecture for enterprise systems.
• Proven record of designing end-to-end solutions across SaaS, custom applications, and integrations.
• Experience translating business goals into target state architectures and incremental roadmaps.
• Hands-on experience integrating SaaS platforms using REST, webhooks, GraphQL, and event streaming.
• Familiarity with iPaaS/ESB platforms.
• Experience with API management, versioning, and throttling.
• Depth in at least one major cloud platform, including networking, identity, storage, and managed services.
• Experience with SSO, SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, and RBAC/ABAC authorization patterns.
• Experience with compliance-aware design for regulated data.
• Participation in governance activities such as architecture reviews, risk assessments, and threat modeling.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and design integration patterns for SaaS platforms, internal systems, and external partners.
• Develop end-to-end solution proposals covering functional design, data flows, security, and operational requirements.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, interface catalogs, and technical specifications.
• Conduct buy versus build analysis considering architecture fit, cost factors, implementation effort, and long-term maintainability.
• Assess SaaS platform capabilities against business needs and integration requirements.
• Review vendor roadmaps and highlight risks or gaps relevant to compliance-sensitive processes.
• Provide architectural oversight for configuration, customization, and data extraction strategies.
• Contribute to enterprise target-state architecture and provide technical leadership to development teams.
• Perform occasional code reviews and guide coding best practices.
• Develop and maintain domain-level architecture landscape views, including logical, security, and deployment diagrams for current and target states.
• Define and validate integration and data architecture using APIs, event streams, ETL pipelines, and workflow automation.
• Align designs with access control models, audit needs, and data privacy requirements.
• Support architecture reviews, risk assessments, and technical approvals.
• Collaborate with Scrum teams during refinement, sprint planning, and technical decision-making.
• Provide solution oversight through development, testing, and release planning.
• Communicate architecture decisions, trade-offs, and impacts to business and technical stakeholders.
• Create and maintain high-quality technical documentation, including architecture decision records and reusable patterns.
• Present and obtain approval on solution designs from governance bodies.

Should Have:

• Experience reviewing vendor roadmaps and identifying compliance risks.
• Strong ability to influence platform strategy and recommend improvements.
• Experience in maintaining logical, security, and deployment architecture views.

Skills:

• API design and integration patterns.
• Cloud architecture and cloud-native services.
• Identity and access management.
• Data modeling and data governance.
• Architecture documentation and technical writing.
• Stakeholder communication and collaboration.

Qualification and Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.