Hybrid Enterprise Solutions Architect – Modernization & Cloud

S&B; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid work schedules

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

S&B is seeking a Solutions Architect to define and guide enterprise modernization, connecting business needs with applications, API integrations, data, cloud and cybersecurity. You will help ensure a coherent, secure, and maintainable ecosystem and advise IT leadership, business teams, vendors, and delivery teams throughout implementation.

The ideal candidate leads across multidisciplinary teams, translates complex requirements into pragmatic architectures, and clearly explains decisions to

Qualifications

• Requires a minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise applications, systems integration, software engineering, solutions architecture, or a related information technology role.
• Demonstrated experience leading the design and guiding the implementation of solutions spanning enterprise applications, APIs, middleware, databases, cloud services, and legacy platforms, including COTS and SaaS integration.
• Ability to translate complex business processes and requirements into practical solution architectures, lead across multidisciplinary teams without direct supervisory responsibility, and clearly explain technical decisions and trade-offs to senior leaders.
• Working knowledge of secure integration patterns, identity and access management, DevSecOps practices, solution monitoring and observability, and architecture documentation
• Experience supporting technology solutions in engineering, procurement, construction, manufacturing, energy, or other industries with complex project delivery requirements preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business owners and product teams to clarify business and technical requirements and translate them into end-to-end solution designs, defining system boundaries, interfaces, data ownership, dependencies, and transition states.
• Lead solution architecture for enterprise modernization efforts, COTS and SaaS products, custom solutions, and legacy systems. Evaluate product capabilities, configuration options, and supported extensions cannot meet business requirements before recommending customization.
• Develop reusable integration patterns for APIs, middleware, messaging, event processing, file exchange, authentication, and secure system-to-system communication.
• Design integrations for reliability and supportability, including data validation, error handling, appropriate retry mechanisms, monitoring, reconciliation, logging, and auditability.
• Partner with business owners, application teams, and Analytics to identify authoritative data sources, clarify data ownership, reduce unnecessary replication, and define operational and analytical data flows.
• Develop legacy modernization and coexistence plans that preserve critical business capabilities and institutional knowledge while reducing technical debt.
• Work with infrastructure, platform, and cybersecurity teams to define solution requirements and designs for cloud and on-premises environments, including connectivity, identity and access management, secrets management, availability, performance, disaster recovery, and operating cost.
• Evaluate designs and technology options during discovery, product evaluation, and implementation against business value, security, scalability, maintainability, supportability, delivery risk, and long-term enterprise fit.
• Maintain current-state, transition-state, and future-state diagrams for assigned solutions, interface documentation, architecture decisions, and significant risks. Participate in solution design reviews and governance.
• Provide technical guidance to developers, integration teams, vendors, and project leads throughout implementation, testing, deployment, and stabilization.
• Clearly communicate architecture recommendations, decisions, risks, and trade-offs to technical teams, business stakeholders, project leaders, and senior leadership.
• Ability to interpret business and technical documentation and clearly explain architectural recommendations, decisions, trade-offs, and risks to technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Basic mathematical and algebraic equations required.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

APIs & middleware

Cloud services

Identity & access management

DevSecOps

Observability

Legacy modernization

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

S&B is seeking a Solutions Architect to define and guide enterprise modernization, connecting business needs with applications, API integrations, data, cloud and cybersecurity. You will help ensure a coherent, secure, and maintainable ecosystem and advise IT leadership, business teams, vendors, and delivery teams throughout implementation.

The ideal candidate leads across multidisciplinary teams, translates complex requirements into pragmatic architectures, and clearly explains decisions to