Senior Solution Architect

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Translate business, functional, and non-functional requirements into end-to-end solution architectures.
• Develop high-level designs across applications, integration, data, infrastructure, cloud, security, and deployment.
• Ensure proposed solutions comply with enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and technology strategies.
• Assess options against business value, feasibility, scalability, security, interoperability, and total cost of ownership.
• Define interfaces, APIs, messaging patterns, system dependencies, data needs, and information flows.
• Define hosting, cloud, network, resilience, availability, and disaster recovery requirements; embed cybersecurity, privacy, identity, access control, and compliance.
• Conduct architecture reviews and design assurance; identify risks, constraints, assumptions, dependencies, and mitigation actions.
• Collaborate with architects, business and delivery teams, technical functions, and vendors; support technology selection, RFPs, and demonstrations.
• Guide solutions from concept through implementation and transition and support cloud adoption, modernization, API enablement, integration transformation, and legacy replacement.

Experience and qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience in IT, solution design, software engineering, infrastructure, integration, cloud, or related technical domains; at least 5 years in solution architecture or a comparable senior role.
• Experience designing complex enterprise solutions across applications, systems, platforms, and integrations; experience with large-scale transformation or modernization programs.
• Experience in current-state assessment, target-state architecture, and engagement with senior business and technology stakeholders.
• A relevant bachelor’s degree is preferred.
• TOGAF and cloud architecture certifications are highly desirable; other relevant architecture, security, integration, or technology certifications are advantageous.

Core competencies

• End-to-end solution, application, platform, integration, API, data, cloud, hybrid, infrastructure, and deployment architecture.
• Security-by-design, architecture governance, design assurance, technical risk management, and technology evaluation.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred frameworks and technologies

• TOGAF, ArchiMate, UML, and BPMN where relevant; cloud architecture frameworks and well-architected principles.
• API and integration patterns, microservices, event-driven architecture, SABSA or equivalent security practices, ITIL, and DevOps/DevSecOps concepts.
• Enterprise architecture platforms such as Bizzdesign, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Orbus/iServer, or ARIS; major cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Exposure to API management, middleware, messaging, modern application platforms, containerization, orchestration, and modeling tools.

Personal attributes