Senior Solution Architect

Senior Solution Architect

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:

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.)