Senior Solution Architect (Application)

Zohorecruit; United Arab Emirates; Remote; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Techsa is seeking a Senior Solution Architect (Application) to own end-to-end technical design of our services, APIs, and how systems communicate. You will guide engineering teams, ensure scalable architectures, and drive decisions that affect the data platform and overall product

The role requires deep hands-on experience in backend and frontend, strong domain knowledge, and the ability to maintain architecture documentation for new engineers to follow.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Owns end-to-end technical design of applications, including services and APIs.
• Guides engineering teams on design decisions and reviews implemented work.

Skills

Solution architecture

Java

Spring Boot

REST API design

Microservices

System integration

Frontend & Backend

Self-managed infra

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect (Application) to join our team and take ownership of key areas within our technology and data platform. Owns the end-to-end technical design of the application: services, APIs, and how systems talk to each other. Guides engineering teams on design decisions and reviews what gets built.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and deliver solutions within the scope of the role, from requirements and technical/design decisions through implementation and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with engineering, product, data, design, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into practical, scalable solutions.
• Apply strong engineering and/or domain expertise to build reliable, maintainable, and production-ready capabilities.
• Contribute to architecture, standards, documentation, quality, and technical decision-making appropriate to the role.
• Identify performance, scalability, data quality, usability, reliability, or operational risks and address them proactively.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure solutions integrate effectively with existing systems and platform components.

Requirements

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 7+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with: Solution architecture, Java, Spring Boot, REST API design, microservices, system integration, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Real ownership of solution or application architecture, not senior development alone.
• Strong hands on background across backend and frontend.
• Designing APIs and integrations across multiple systems.
• Self managed infrastructure rather than managed cloud services.
• Keeps architecture documented clearly enough for a new engineer to follow.

Preferred Qualifications

• Event driven architecture with Kafka.
• Experience in a product company rather than project delivery only.