Overview
The Solutions Architect executes strategic business requirements by designing integrated technology solutions and guiding their implementation across hardware, software, data, and network systems. This role combines business, information, and technical perspectives to create scalable, high-level architectures aligned with enterprise principles.
Key Responsibilities
- Designs scalable architecture solutions that align with client needs and industry standards
- Develops and maintains documentation for architecture designs, processes, and standards to facilitate knowledge sharing
- Evaluates technologies, tools, and frameworks to enhance solution performance and reliability
- Executes architectural reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices and organizational goals
- Helps monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement
- Partners with Agile teams to identify inconsistencies in architectural design and assists the Agile Release Train with enhancements
- Supports the communication of the organization’s solutions architecture vision to stakeholders to ensure alignment with business objectives and program increment planning
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams to gather, analyze, and translate business requirements into product specifications
- Supports Agile teams with implementing the architecture
Required Experience
- Typically requires a Master's degree with 5 years of experience or a Bachelors Degree with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Proven ability to design and document scalable, end-to-end technology solutions that integrate hardware, software, data, and network systems across distributed environments, with demonstrated experience translating complex business requirements into comprehensive architectural blueprints aligned with enterprise standards and industry best practices.
- Strong technical knowledge evaluating functionality, constraints, and compatibility across diverse technology stacks and platforms, ensuring seamless integration, system stability, high availability, and optimal performance in heterogeneous IT environments.
- Experience conducting architectural reviews and assessments of emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks to recommend solutions that enhance reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness while identifying opportunities for innovation and modernization that drive competitive advantage.
- Demonstrated ability to work embedded with Agile Release Trains and cross-functional teams, participating in Program Increment planning, identifying architectural inconsistencies, and providing just-in-time design guidance that enables teams to deliver business value while maintaining architectural integrity.
- Ability to bridge business and technology perspectives by gathering and analyzing stakeholder requirements, articulating the solutions architecture vision to both technical and non-technical audiences, and negotiating trade-offs between business needs, technical constraints, and organizational goals.
- Track record of establishing and maintaining architecture standards, design patterns, and documentation frameworks that facilitate knowledge sharing across the organization, while providing technical guidance and coaching to development teams and junior architects on architectural principles and implementation best practices.
Qualifications
- Master's degree or Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field is preferred.
- Certified Solutions Architect (AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI); SAFe for Architects (ARCH); SAFe DevOps (SDP)
