Solution Architect

VerityX Talent; Muscat; On-site; OMR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

VerityX Talent seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to own the end-to-end design of a national-scale registry platform built on a Service-Oriented Architecture. Translate business policy into a governed target architecture, producing C4 views, architecture decision records and a multi-layer reference model.

Define unified data models, canonical services and robust integration patterns. The role requires 10+ years in enterprise/solution architecture, deep SOA mastery, ESB and API-management

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise and/or solution architecture experience.
• Recent delivery experience on large public-sector or data/registry-platform programmes.
• Deep, hands-on command of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Strong service design and service-contract experience.
• Strong ESB/integration-platform experience.
• API architecture and API-management experience.
• Event-driven and message-based architecture experience.
• Master-data and identity-resolution experience.
• Proven ability to design complex system-to-system linkages across broad partner and application landscapes.
• Proven experience rationalising legacy estates into coherent target architectures.
• Strong non-functional architecture credentials covering security, scalability, resilience, data quality and interoperability.
• Strong senior stakeholder communication and architecture-governance capability.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end solution architecture for the platform.
• Translate business and policy requirements into a governed target architecture.
• Produce C4 architecture views at L1-L3.
• Produce and maintain Architecture Decision Records.
• Develop the multi-layer reference architecture.
• Define the unified registry data model and canonical services.
• Design the integration and orchestration backbone.
• Define service contracts and SOA design patterns.
• Design ESB/API layers and API-management approaches.
• Define message-based and event-driven integration flows.
• Design master-data and identity-resolution approaches.
• Design complex system-to-system linkages across government, partner and third-party systems.
• Rationalise legacy estates including core applications, ERP and supporting applications into a coherent future-state architecture.
• Shape cloud, on-premise and hybrid deployment strategies aligned with regional sovereign-cloud requirements and national digital standards.
• Address non-functional requirements including security, scalability, resilience, data quality and interoperability.
• Chair architecture governance forums.
• Present and defend architecture/design decisions with senior client stakeholders.

Skills

SOA mastery

ESB integration

API architecture

Event-driven architecture

Stakeholder communication

Tools

ESB platforms

API-management

Job description

Own the end-to-end technical design of a national-scale registry platform built on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). The defining challenge is designing the linkages-the services, interfaces and data exchanges that connect the platform to a wide ecosystem of government and third-party systems into a single authoritative source of citizen/beneficiary data. The role translates business and policy intent into a governed target architecture, produces C4 (L1-L3) views, Architecture Decision Records and a multi-layer reference architecture, and defines the unified data model and canonical services.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end solution architecture for the platform.


• Translate business and policy requirements into a governed target architecture.


• Produce C4 architecture views at L1-L3.


• Produce and maintain Architecture Decision Records.


• Develop the multi-layer reference architecture.


• Define the unified registry data model and canonical services.


• Design the integration and orchestration backbone.


• Define service contracts and SOA design patterns.


• Design ESB/API layers and API-management approaches.


• Define message-based and event-driven integration flows.


• Design master-data and identity-resolution approaches.


• Design complex system-to-system linkages across government, partner and third-party systems.


• Rationalise legacy estates including core applications, ERP and supporting applications into a coherent future-state architecture.


• Shape cloud, on-premise and hybrid deployment strategies aligned with regional sovereign-cloud requirements and national digital standards.


• Address non-functional requirements including security, scalability, resilience, data quality and interoperability.


• Chair architecture governance forums.


• Present and defend architecture/design decisions with senior client stakeholders.

Required Experience & Capabilities

• 10+ years of enterprise and/or solution architecture experience.


• Recent delivery experience on large public-sector or data/registry-platform programmes.


• Deep, hands-on command of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).


• Strong service design and service-contract experience.


• Strong ESB/integration-platform experience.


• API architecture and API-management experience.


• Event-driven and message-based architecture experience.


• Master-data and identity-resolution experience.


• Proven ability to design complex system-to-system linkages across broad partner and application landscapes.


• Proven experience rationalising legacy estates into coherent target architectures.


• Strong non-functional architecture credentials covering security, scalability, resilience, data quality and interoperability.


• Strong senior stakeholder communication and architecture-governance capability.

Preferred / Advantageous

• Exposure to AI/ML target architectures.


• Exposure to AI governance frameworks such as NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 23894.