Solution Architect (Engineering Enablement & Delivery)

Direct teams through each phase of the SDLC, ensuring alignment with established engineering processes.

Contribute architectural expertise during sprint planning, backlog refinement, and definition of Done (DoD).

Guarantee that technical requirements, dependencies, and non-functional requirements (NFRs) are properly reflected within user stories.

Establish and enforce coding standards, architectural patterns, and secure coding practices.

Drive continuous improvement in CI/CD processes, branching models, and repository governance—including automated deployments, release stability, and traceability.

Collaborate closely with QA teams to ensure comprehensive functional and non-functional test coverage.

Advocate for Test-Driven Development (TDD), static code analysis, API contract validation, and performance testing methodologies.

Conduct thorough architectural reviews to confirm compliance with enterprise standards, security protocols, regulatory requirements, and approved patterns.

Identify and address architectural risks, recommending effective mitigation strategies.

Prepare Architecture Decision Records (ADR), impact assessments, and technical feasibility studie.

Transform business requirements into robust technical designs and architectural frameworks.

Define critical NFRs including performance, scalability, availability, resilience, and security.

Design microservices, event-driven systems, APIs, and integration workflows.

Architect modern solutions utilizing best practices such as API-led integration, messaging, EDA, DDD, and SOA.

Responsible for producing architectural deliverables, such as high-level and low-level designs (HLD/LLD), interface specifications, data models, sequence diagrams, component architectures, and deployment strategies.

Provide expert technical guidance throughout implementation phases.

Simplify architecture using modular design, refactoring, and pattern-driven decision-making.

Foster alignment between cross-functional teams including DevOps, Infrastructure, and Security.

Assist with story decomposition, creation of the architecture runway, and prioritization of technical debt.

Partner with DevOps to enhance CI/CD pipeline efficiency.

Oversee release cycles to ensure deployment readiness, rollback procedures, and overall reliability.

Evaluate platform implications relating to network, firewalls, compute resources, storage, and security zones.

Confirm that deployment models comply with cloud governance and regulatory requirements.

Ensure architectural designs meet information security policies, data protection requirements, audit standards, and relevant regulations.

Support secure architecture reviews focused on identity management, access controls, encryption, and threat modeling.