Solution Architect

Solution Architect

Must have technical/functional skills: 15–20 years of overall IT experience, including substantial experience in solution or enterprise architecture. Strong knowledge of enterprise application architecture, distributed systems and microservices, event-driven architecture, cloud-native application design, high availability and disaster recovery, scalability, performance, resilience, and fault tolerance. Ability to develop solution architecture documents, high-level and low-level architecture diagrams, integration and data-flow diagrams, deployment architecture.

Roles & responsibilities: Work with business and technology stakeholders to understand functional, non-functional, security, compliance, and operational requirements. Define end-to-end solution architecture aligned with enterprise standards and business objectives. Evaluate solution alternatives and document recommendations, trade-offs, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and constraints. Create architecture diagrams, integration designs, data flows, deployment models, and technology roadmaps. Define application, integration, infrastructure, data, security, and operational architecture. Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, performance, availability, resilience, maintainability, and security. Lead architecture and design review sessions with engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, and operations teams. Provide technical direction to development teams throughout design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support. Review technical designs and implementation approaches for alignment with the approved architecture. Identify architecture risks and technical debt and recommend mitigation or remediation actions. Establish reusable patterns, technology standards, and engineering guidelines. Support effort estimation, implementation planning, dependency management, and release-readiness activities. Collaborate with cybersecurity and risk teams to incorporate required controls into the solution. Support proofs of concept and technology evaluations when required. Review vendor or third-party solutions for technical fit, security, integration, scalability, and operational supportability. Participate in production-readiness reviews and provide guidance for monitoring, incident management, capacity planning, and disaster recovery. Communicate architecture decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Mentor technical leads, developers, and other architects while promoting consistent engineering practices.

Salary range: $130,000 to $150,000 per year

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Function: TECHNOLOGY

Skills: Agile