Solution “Application” Architect

Solution Architect

Location – Plano TX

Responsible for providing technical leadership for secure, scalable, and maintainable third-party SaaS data integrations and target-state platform designs for the risk, legal, compliance, privacy, fraud, and learning systems domain. Define integration architectures spanning applications, APIs, event and data pipelines, and cloud-native services. Set direction for reusable components, integration patterns, and non-functional standards, and drive their adoption across teams. Partner with product owners, tech leads, and other architects to convert strategic requirements into end-to-end solution designs that guide engineering delivery. Influence platform strategy, identify gaps, and recommend improvements that strengthen reliability, performance, and compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and Design
• Partner with tech leads to design integration patterns for third-party SaaS platforms, internal systems, and external partners.
• Develop end-to-end solution proposals that cover functional design, data flows, security, and operational requirements.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, interface catalogs, and technical specifications.
• Conduct buy versus build analysis that compares architecture fit, cost factors, implementation effort, and long-term maintainability.
• Third-Party SaaS and Platform Capabilities
• Assess third-party SaaS platform capabilities against business needs and integration requirements.
• Map technical features of existing and proposed third-party SaaS solutions to domain use cases.
• Review vendor roadmaps and highlight risks or gaps relevant to compliance-sensitive processes.
• Provide architectural oversight for configuration, customization, and data extraction strategies.
• Technical Leadership
• Demonstrated ability to work with enterprise architecture team and contributing to developing and realizing the target state.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams, ensuring all organizational architecture standards, patterns frameworks, and industry best practices in architecture and design are followed.
• Capable of performing occasional code reviews and providing guidance on coding best practices.
• Be a thought leader on identifying and developing new standard patterns, solution building blocks, and best practices to enable efficient solution design and delivery.
• Solution Level Architecture Support
• Maintain an end-to-end domain level architecture landscape views - logical, security, and deployment diagrams - current state and target state landscape views.
• Develop and maintain OKR / project level solution architecture and design - logical, security, and deployment arch views diagrams, low level solution design, ensuring compliance with NFR and other solution patterns.
• Integration and Data Architecture
• Define integration approaches using APIs, event streams, ETL pipelines, and workflow automation.
• Validate data models, data quality requirements, and retention standards for regulated domains.
• Work with security partners to align designs with access control models, audit needs, and data privacy requirements.
• Governance and Standards
• Constructively challenge enterprise architecture recommendations when alternatives provide better outcomes for the business and the enterprise.
• Align design proposals with engineering standards, cloud patterns, and operational practices.
• Support architecture reviews, risk assessments, and technical approvals.
• Collaboration and Delivery Support
• Work with Scrum teams to guide architecture during refinement, sprint planning, and technical decisions.
• Provide solution oversight through development, testing, and release planning.
• Communicate architecture choices, trade-offs, and impacts to business and technical stakeholders.
• Documentation
• Create and maintain high-quality technical documentation that supports the development process, including architecture decision records, design specs, system architecture diagrams, and reusable patterns.
• Solution Governance
• Presenting and obtaining approval on solution design from governance bodies.

Required Experience

• 8+ years in software engineering, 4+ years in solution architecture for enterprise systems.
• Proven record designing end-to-end solutions across third-party SaaS apps, custom apps, and integrations.
• Strong at translating business goals into target state and incremental roadmaps.
• Hands-on experience integrating third-party SaaS platforms using REST, webhooks, GraphQL, and event streaming (e.g., Kafka).
• Familiarity with iPaaS/ESB (e.g., MuleSoft, Boomi, Informatica, Azure Integration Services).
• Experience with API management, versioning, throttling, and monetization where applicable.
• Depth in at least one major cloud (Azure, AWS, or GCP), including networking, identity, storage, and managed services.
• Identity and access management: SSO, SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC; RBAC/ABAC authorization patterns.
• Compliance-aware design for regulated data (e.g., SOX, GDPR, HIPAA depending on use case).
• Governance participation: ADRs, architecture reviews, risk assessments, threat modeling (e.g., STRIDE).