Senior Solutions Architect - Enterprise Strategy

The Blue Venture Fund; Oak Brook (IL); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

The Blue Venture Fund is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to shape architecture strategy across portfolios, guiding technology decisions and aligning business objectives with technology investments.

This senior role provides architectural leadership across product teams, programs, and business capabilities, establishing standards, reusable patterns, and long-term roadmaps for scalable and secure solutions.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve architecture roadmaps, target-state architectures, and strategic technology direction for one or more business domains.
• Translate business strategy into practical technology strategies, architectural capabilities, and implementation roadmaps.
• Provide architectural leadership across multiple concurrent initiatives, ensuring solutions align with enterprise objectives and architectural principles.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, industry trends, and vendor capabilities to identify opportunities and risks.
• Guide architecture decisions that span products, platforms, integrations, data domains, and shared services.
• Resolve architectural conflicts, competing priorities, and cross-team design tradeoffs.
• Ensure solutions support long-term business goals while balancing cost, risk, complexity, and delivery objectives.
• Lead architectural planning for modernization, platform evolution, technical debt reduction, and operational resiliency.
• Establish and maintain architecture standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and decision frameworks.
• Lead architecture reviews and governance activities for strategic initiatives and high-impact technology decisions.
• Promote consistency, reusability, supportability, and security across the technology landscape.
• Drive use of architecture decision records (ADRs), standards, and documentation practices.
• Identify and proactively address architectural risks, dependencies, constraints, and systemic weaknesses.
• Ensure solutions address security, compliance, privacy, resiliency, recoverability, scalability, and operational support requirements.
• Partner with security, infrastructure, operations, and engineering teams to ensure alignment with enterprise controls and operational standards.
• Contribute to disaster recovery, business continuity, and platform resiliency planning.
• Mentor Solution Architects, technical leads, and engineering teams on architecture practices and decision-making.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.
• Lead architecture communities of practice and contribute to architecture capability development across the organization.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders.
• Partner with product, engineering, security, infrastructure, data, and business stakeholders to align technology investments with business priorities.
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Influence strategic decisions through analysis of benefits, risks, constraints, and tradeoffs.
• Support portfolio planning, investment decisions, and long-range technology strategy discussions.

Job description

The Blue Venture Fund is seeking a Lead Solution Architect to shape architecture strategy across portfolios, guiding technology decisions and aligning business objectives with technology investments.

This senior role provides architectural leadership across product teams, programs, and business capabilities, establishing standards, reusable patterns, and long-term roadmaps for scalable and secure solutions.