Senior Solutions Architect: Enterprise Platform Leader

Horizontal Talent; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Horizontal Talent is seeking an experienced solution architect to shape technology direction across enterprise platforms, integrations, and data. You will lead from discovery through delivery, collaborating across teams to turn complex business needs into scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

Join a team that defines standards, guides architecture roadmaps, and mentors engineers to drive continuous improvement across systems and data domains.

Qualifications

• Must have extensive experience designing and delivering large-scale architecture solutions.
• Ability to mentor engineers and guide cross-team architecture decisions.
• Strong communication to translate business needs into technical roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture efforts from discovery through implementation.
• Design architecture across systems, data flows, security, and scalability.
• Establish architectural standards, reference patterns, and roadmaps.
• Provide governance and oversight throughout delivery lifecycle.
• Create architecture artifacts like system context and data flows.
• Evaluate options via prototypes to validate feasibility and reduce risk.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to resolve dependencies and issues.
• Identify risks and trade-offs; recommend mitigation strategies.
• Define non-functional requirements including security and performance.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to continuous architecture improvement.
• Participate in peer reviews and root-cause analysis for long-term solutions.

Skills

Solution architecture

Cross-functional leadership

Systems integration

Data architecture

Security & resilience

Communication skills

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Job description

Horizontal Talent is seeking an experienced solution architect to shape technology direction across enterprise platforms, integrations, and data. You will lead from discovery through delivery, collaborating across teams to turn complex business needs into scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

Join a team that defines standards, guides architecture roadmaps, and mentors engineers to drive continuous improvement across systems and data domains.