Enterprise Solution Architect

baldwin; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Baldwin Group is seeking an Enterprise Solution Architect to design scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions for the Baldwin Retail unit. You will translate product requirements into technical designs, drive standards, and collaborate across Product, Security, Data, and Enterprise Technology.

This senior role emphasizes agentic AI, automation, and cloud solutions across AWS and Azure, with architecture reviews and risk assessments guiding decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; extensive experience in software design or solution architecture desired.
• Experience delivering scalable, secure, and highly available AWS/Azure solutions.
• Ability to translate product requirements into technical solutions and communicate to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable architectures aligned with enterprise IT strategy.
• Translate business needs into technical designs with product owners.
• Design agentic AI and automation solutions with integration patterns.
• Contribute to standards, guardrails, and reference patterns for engineering teams.
• Assess third-party options and provide build-vs-buy recommendations.
• Collaborate with Security, Compliance, and Risk to embed controls.
• Produce ADRs, integration specs, and design documentation.
• Ensure cloud solutions meet reliability, cost, observability, and performance goals.
• Evaluate emerging technologies for Retail roadmap.

Skills

Solution architecture

Cloud architecture

AI & automation patterns

Secure design principles

Requirements translation

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Observability & performance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Salesforce platform

Applied Epic

Workflow orchestration platforms

Integration design patterns

Job description

The Enterprise Solution Architect designs scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions supporting the Baldwin Retail business unit. Working directly with product owners and technical teams, this role translates product requirements into technical designs, contributes to design standards and reference patterns, and ensures solutions align with enterprise architecture principles. Solutions increasingly include agentic AI and automation components alongside traditional application and integration work. The role operates as a technical individual contributor with meaningful autonomy on solution-level decisions, partnering across Product, Security, Data, and Enterprise Technology.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design solution architectures for Baldwin Retail that are scalable, adaptable, and aligned with enterprise architecture principles and IT strategy.
• Translate product requirements into technical designs, working with product owners to understand business processes and identify challenges.
• Design agentic AI and automation solutions where appropriate, including agent orchestration patterns, LLM integration, human-in-the-loop workflows, and tool/API exposure for agent consumption.
• Contribute to design standards, guardrails, and reference patterns used by engineering teams.
• Evaluate third-party products, platforms, and cloud services; develop build-vs-buy recommendations for architecture leadership.
• Review solution designs with engineering teams to surface risks and architectural gaps.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, and Risk to embed information security, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery requirements into designs.
• Collaborate with Data Platform teams on data processing patterns, integration strategies, and access boundaries.
• Produce architectural decision records (ADRs), integration specifications, and design documentation.
• Design and integrate cloud solutions across AWS and Azure, ensuring reliability and operational readiness.
• Prototype new solutions, validating component compatibility and establishing reusable patterns.
• Participate in architecture reviews and design sessions to drive alignment on solution choices.
• Ensure solutions follow cloud best practices for reliability, cost efficiency, observability, and performance.
• Assess emerging technologies, including generative and agentic AI, for applicability to the Retail technology roadmap.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Strong technical expertise in solution and application architecture, including distributed systems, API design, enterprise integration patterns, and event-driven architectures.
• Solid cloud architecture knowledge across AWS and Azure, including compute, networking, identity, and security controls.
• Working knowledge of AI and automation solution patterns, including LLM integration, retrieval-augmented generation, and agent orchestration frameworks.
• Working understanding of secure design principles and architectural controls for regulated environments (SOX, SOC 2, PCI, PII).
• Ability to translate product requirements into feasible technical solutions and communicate designs to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including root cause identification and evaluation of multiple technical paths under ambiguity.
• Ability to build alignment across product owners and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Familiarity with cloud-native observability, monitoring, scalability design, and performance tuning.
• High degree of ownership and adaptability in a rapidly changing technological and business environment.

QUALIFICATIONS

A bachelor's degree is required. Ideally, 12 to 18 years of overall experience in software development, design, or solution architecture fields, with a strong background in business and technical solution delivery. Demonstrated application development experience, having developed at least one application from scratch across the full development lifecycle. Experience designing scalable, secure, highly available systems on AWS and/or Azure. Strong written and verbal communication skills, including clear technical documentation.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Hands-on experience designing or delivering agentic AI or intelligent automation solutions in a production environment.
• Experience with Salesforce platform architecture, integration, or solution design.
• Familiarity with Applied Epic or comparable insurance agency management systems.
• Background in insurance or financial services, or equivalent experience in a regulated industry.
• Experience with workflow orchestration and automation platforms.

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