Location: Makati - Hybrid (2 days onsite per week)
Job type: Permanent with MNC - direct hire
As a Solution Architect, you will:
- 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 of roadmaps.
- Identify risks, dependencies, technical debt, and operational impacts early in the delivery lifecycle.
- Facilitate solution discovery, architecture reviews, technical assessments, proof-of-concepts, and design workshops.
- Partner with engineering, operations, security, product, enterprise architecture, and business stakeholders to drive alignment and decision-making.
- Guide delivery teams through planning, design, implementation, and operational readiness to maintain alignment with approved architecture and expected outcomes.
- Communicate architecture decisions, recommendations, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
Required Skills:
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps or related technical disciplines.
- Experience with any one of programming languages such as C, Python, Java, Dotnet, Go or any languages.
- Experience with engineering and delivery platforms such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins, or similar technologies.
- Experience designing, leading, or guiding enterprise technology solutions in complex environments.
- Experience translating business requirements into practical technical solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions, influence decisions, document design rationale, and establish architecture direction across multiple teams.
- Experience evaluating alternatives, managing tradeoffs, and making sound architecture recommendations.
- Experience developing solution roadmaps, transition strategies, and implementation plans.