Senior Solutions Architect: Strategy & Architecture

PreSales Collective; Oak Brook (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Inspira Financial IT in Oak Brook, IL, invites applications for a Lead Solution Architect who will shape architecture strategy across multiple product teams and capabilities. This senior role guides cross-portfolio technology decisions and establishes reusable patterns to enable scalable, secure systems.

You will mentor architects, drive architecture governance, and collaborate with security, data, and engineering to ensure durable, enterprise-aligned 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.
• As part of the evaluation process, candidates who progress beyond the initial screening will be required to complete a formal technical assessment to validate coding proficiency and technical competency.

Job description

Inspira Financial IT in Oak Brook, IL, invites applications for a Lead Solution Architect who will shape architecture strategy across multiple product teams and capabilities. This senior role guides cross-portfolio technology decisions and establishes reusable patterns to enable scalable, secure systems.

You will mentor architects, drive architecture governance, and collaborate with security, data, and engineering to ensure durable, enterprise-aligned solutions.