Senior Solution Architect, Digital Solutions

Ecolab, Inc.; Naperville (IL); On-site; USD 154,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Ecolab Digital seeks a Lead Solution Architect – Digital Solutions in Naperville, IL to own end-to-end architecture for digital products and operational capabilities. You will translate business intent into engineering-ready designs and guide API, data, and AI-enabled workflows across cloud services and platforms.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data & AI and security teams to ensure scalable, secure and operationally sound solutions across the portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or a related technical field.
• 12+ years of progressive technology experience, including significant experience designing and delivering complex enterprise or digital solutions
• Strong hands-on architecture experience with cloud-native applications, APIs/microservices, event-driven integration, distributed systems and modern application design patterns.
• Experience translating business and Product requirements into end-to-end solution architectures, non-functional requirements and engineering-ready technical direction.
• Experience architecting complex enterprise integrations or operational/service platform transformations, including legacy-system integration, clear data ownership and phased migration/coexistence patterns.
• Strong understanding of performance, scalability, availability, resilience, maintainability, observability and production-support considerations.
• Knowledge of identity, authentication/authorization, data-access controls, secure integration patterns and tenant-aware application design.
• Ability to reason across application, integration, data, platform and infrastructure boundaries rather than optimizing a single technology layer.
• Ability to work effectively with Product, Engineering, Data & AI, cybersecurity, infrastructure and enterprise-platform stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain architecture trade-offs and decisions to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams and guiding engineers through ambiguity without relying on positional authority.
• Demonstrated ability to lead architecture working sessions, review engineering designs, mentor technical contributors and drive pragmatic decisions across multiple concurrent initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for digital products and operational capabilities, translating customer, business and Product outcomes into coherent, engineering-ready technical designs and decisions.
• Architect solutions spanning web/mobile applications, cloud services, APIs, event-driven integration, data platforms, AI-enabled capabilities and operational workflows.
• Design production integration of AI/ML, generative AI and intelligent-agent capabilities, including trusted knowledge retrieval, enterprise data access, tool/API integration, evaluation, human oversight and operational controls.
• Architect modernization of enterprise operational and service capabilities, including CRM/service platforms, legacy systems and phased coexistence, with explicit capability boundaries, system-of-record ownership and transition states.
• Define clean integration boundaries between domain capabilities and shared platforms, including API/service contracts, events, data ownership, identity, authorization and entitlements.
• Work with Product, engineering and technical teams to turn solution intent into component designs, interface contracts, architecture decision records, non-functional requirements and guardrails.
• Address performance and scalability for enterprise and multi-site use cases, including service fan-out, caching, asynchronous processing, data-access patterns, observability and capacity considerations.
• Architect connected-device and IoT integration where relevant, including ingestion, contextualization, edge/cloud boundaries and governed downstream consumption.
• Apply security-by-design principles across identity, authentication/authorization, secrets, network boundaries, data access and tenant isolation.
• Provide architecture leadership through design, build, testing, deployment and operational readiness; surface gaps and resolve trade-offs.
• Contribute reusable architecture patterns and reference designs back into the ecosystem; communicate decisions clearly to leaders and distributed teams.

Skills

Cloud-native apps

APIs / microservices

Event-driven integration

Distributed systems

Modern app design

Requirements translation

Architecture leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS, engineering or related field

Tools

Azure

Databricks

Job description

Ecolab Digital seeks a Lead Solution Architect – Digital Solutions in Naperville, IL to own end-to-end architecture for digital products and operational capabilities. You will translate business intent into engineering-ready designs and guide API, data, and AI-enabled workflows across cloud services and platforms.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data & AI and security teams to ensure scalable, secure and operationally sound solutions across the portfolio.