Senior Solution Architect (Cloud, DevOps & Enterprise Platforms)
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Summary
We are seeking a highly capable and adaptable Solution Architect to shape, design, and guide enterprise technology solutions across business and technical domains. The role designs scalable, secure, and business-aligned solutions, translating enterprise needs into practical architecture and delivery plans.
This role suits a technologist with broad engineering and architecture experience across cloud platforms, software engineering, automation, integrations, and DevOps. You will partner with product owners, engineers, operations, security, enterprise architects, and business stakeholders to deliver solutions that are scalable, secure, maintainable, cost-effective, and aligned with enterprise standards.
Responsibilities
- Translate business requirements, technical constraints, and enterprise standards into practical architecture options, solution designs, and implementation guidance.
- Lead architecture discussions and establish technical direction for strategic initiatives and complex business challenges.
- Evaluate technology options, identify tradeoffs, and recommend fit-for-purpose solutions.
- Design scalable, secure, resilient, cost-effective, and operationally sustainable solutions.
- Develop target-state architectures, transition strategies, and implementation roadmaps.
- Identify risks, dependencies, technical debt, and operational impacts early in the delivery lifecycle.
- Facilitate solution discovery, architecture reviews, technical assessments, proofs of concept, and design workshops.
- Partner with engineering, operations, security, product, enterprise architecture, and business stakeholders to drive alignment and decisions.
- Guide delivery teams through planning, design, implementation, and operational readiness.
- Communicate architecture decisions, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Promote simplification, standardization, automation, reuse, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
Experience
- 8+ years in software, cloud, platform, infrastructure, DevOps, automation, database engineering, or related technical disciplines.
- Experience designing, leading, or guiding enterprise technology solutions in complex environments.
- Experience supporting production environments, with an understanding of resiliency, monitoring, incident management, lifecycle management, and operational readiness.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions, influence decisions, document design rationale, and set architecture direction across multiple teams.
- Experience evaluating alternatives, managing tradeoffs, and identifying technical, operational, delivery, and organizational risks.
- Experience developing solution roadmaps, transition strategies, and implementation plans.
- Experience working within Agile, SAFe, DevOps, or similar delivery environments.
Technical Skills
- Cloud and platform services, enterprise infrastructure, and software engineering.
- Source control and CI/CD platforms such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitLab, or Jenkins.
- Programming or scripting in Python, PowerShell, Go, C, or similar languages.
- REST APIs, systems integration, workflow automation, and JSON/YAML or equivalent formats.
- Understanding of security, identity, resiliency, observability, and operational supportability.
Core Competencies
- Architecture and Technical Leadership: Designs enterprise solutions, evaluates options, and guides engineering teams toward scalable, secure, supportable, and cost-effective outcomes.
- Technical Breadth and Learning Agility: Builds working knowledge of new technologies, platforms, and business domains quickly, and earns credibility with engineers and leadership.
- Systems Thinking and Problem Solving: Analyzes complex challenges, identifies risks and dependencies, and balances business priorities, security, cost, and sustainability.
- Delivering Results Through Influence: Aligns stakeholders, facilitates decisions, and drives outcomes across cross-functional teams without direct authority.
- Communication: Strong stakeholder communication, facilitation, technical storytelling, and executive-ready presentation skills.