Senior Solution Architect

Role: Senior Solution Architect

Location: SLC/Midvale, UT - Onsite

Your future duties and responsibilities


How you'll make an impact


As a Senior Solution Architect, you will provide both strategic and technical leadership across enterprise initiatives, ensuring technology solutions align with business objectives, enterprise architecture standards, and long-term organizational strategy.

Strategic Business Partnership


Build trusted relationships with executive stakeholders, business leaders, product owners, and technical teams


Partner with business and technology leadership to translate strategic objectives into scalable technology solutions


Participate in enterprise planning, technology strategy, and investment discussions


Support business case development, technology assessments, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis, and modernization initiatives


Advise leadership on technology selection, architecture decisions, innovation opportunities, and emerging industry trends


Support application portfolio management, including modernization, lifecycle planning, and technology rationalization

Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership


Design secure, scalable, resilient, and cloud-native enterprise solutions supporting mission-critical business capabilities


Translate complex business and technical requirements into comprehensive solution architectures aligned with enterprise standards


Develop architecture blueprints, reference architectures, solution roadmaps, and integration strategies


Design modern distributed systems leveraging:

* Cloud-native architectures


* Microservices


* Event-driven architectures


* API-first integration


* Enterprise messaging


* AI-enabled services

Lead application modernization initiatives, including legacy transformation and cloud migration


Ensure architectural decisions promote scalability, security, maintainability, observability, and operational excellence


Establish architecture principles, governance standards, reusable design patterns, and engineering best practices


Partner with development teams to ensure successful implementation of architectural designs

Enterprise Architecture & Governance

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to ensure solution alignment with long-term technology strategy
• Participate in Architecture Review Boards (ARBs) and governance processes
• Evaluate technology risks, technical debt, and modernization opportunities
• Develop future-state technology roadmaps that support evolving business capabilities
• Promote standardized, reusable, secure, and automated architectural approaches
• Drive architecture documentation, design standards, and governance throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Innovation & Engineering Excellence

• Champion innovation through the adoption of AI, automation, cloud-native engineering, and emerging technologies
• Mentor architects, developers, and technical teams on architecture principles and engineering excellence
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and technical leadership
• Stay current with industry trends, cloud platforms, AI technologies, enterprise integration patterns, and software architecture best practices
• Improve engineering productivity through automation, DevSecOps, AI-assisted development, and platform modernization

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

What you'll bring

Education


Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent professional experience)

Experience

• 8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise application development
• Demonstrated progression from senior software engineer into architecture, technical leadership, or enterprise solution design roles
• Experience designing enterprise-scale, cloud-native applications supporting complex business environments
• Proven success leading architecture decisions across multiple concurrent initiatives
• Experience collaborating with executive stakeholders and cross-functional technical teams

Technical Expertise


Strong experience designing and implementing enterprise solutions utilizing technologies such as:

Programming


* Java


* Python


* Modern object-oriented programming languages

Cloud Platforms


* Amazon Web Services (AWS)


* Microsoft Azure


* Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Preferred

Architecture & Design


* Microservices


* Event-driven architecture


* Enterprise integration patterns


* API-first design


* Domain-Driven Design (DDD)


* Distributed systems

Integration Technologies


* RESTful APIs


* JSON


* XML


* API Management platforms


* Enterprise messaging


* Apache Kafka or comparable event-streaming technologies

DevOps & Cloud Engineering


* Docker


* Kubernetes


* Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or similar)


* CI/CD pipelines


* Git


* Azure DevOps


* GitHub

Data Technologies


* SQL


* Relational databases


* Data modeling and query optimization

Operating Systems


* Linux


* Shell scripting

AI & Emerging Technologies


* Generative AI


* Agentic AI


* AI-assisted software development


* Intelligent automation

Preferred Qualifications


Experience in one or more of the following is highly desirable:

* Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF or equivalent)


* Cloud migration and modernization initiatives


* API Management platforms (Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft, Azure API Management, etc.)


* Event streaming platforms (Kafka, Event Hubs, or similar)


* Data integration and analytics platforms


* Security architecture, identity, and access management (IAM)


* DevSecOps practices


* Observability and monitoring platforms (Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, etc.)


* Experience within financial services, government, healthcare, or other regulated industries


* Agile, Scrum, and SAFe delivery environments


* Technical leadership across geographically distributed engineering organizations