Solution Architect

FacadeToday; Jersey City, Northern (NJ, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

FacadeToday is seeking a seasoned Enterprise Architect in Jersey City to lead end-to-end solution architecture for complex, scalable systems. You will collaborate with business and technology partners to translate requirements into architecture roadmaps and deployment models.

Responsibilities include guiding design reviews, creating data flows and integration diagrams, and mentoring engineers while ensuring high availability, performance, and security across platforms.

Qualifications

• 15–20 years IT experience including enterprise architecture.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise application architecture.
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Work with business and technology stakeholders to understand functional, non-functional, security, compliance, and operational requirements.
• Define end-to-end solution architecture aligned with enterprise standards and business objectives.
• Evaluate solution alternatives and document recommendations, trade-offs, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and constraints.
• Create architecture diagrams, integration designs, data flows, deployment models, and technology roadmaps.
• Define application, integration, infrastructure, data, security, and operational architecture.
• Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, performance, availability, resilience, maintainability, and security.
• Lead architecture and design review sessions with engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, and operations teams.
• Provide technical direction to development teams throughout design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Review technical designs and implementation approaches for alignment with the approved architecture.
• Identify architecture risks and technical debt and recommend mitigation or remediation actions.
• Establish reusable patterns, technology standards, and engineering guidelines.
• Support effort estimation, implementation planning, dependency management, and release-readiness activities.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and risk teams to incorporate required controls into the solution.
• Support proofs of concept and technology evaluations when required.
• Review vendor or third-party solutions for technical fit, security, integration, scalability, and operational supportability.
• Participate in production-readiness reviews and provide guidance for monitoring, incident management, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
• Communicate architecture decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor technical leads, developers, and other architects while promoting consistent engineering practices

Skills

Solution architecture

Enterprise architecture

Distributed systems

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

Cloud-native design

High availability & DR

Scalability & performance

Architecture diagrams

Deployment architecture

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science

Job description

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• 15–20 years of overall IT experience, including substantial experience in solution or enterprise architecture.
• Strong knowledge of:
• Enterprise application architecture
• Distributed systems and microservices
• Event-driven architecture
• Cloud-native application design
• High availability and disaster recovery
• Scalability, performance, resilience, and fault tolerance
• Ability to develop:
• Solution architecture documents
• High-level and low-level architecture diagrams
• Integration and data-flow diagrams
• Deployment architecture

Roles & Responsibilities

• Work with business and technology stakeholders to understand functional, non-functional, security, compliance, and operational requirements.
• Define end-to-end solution architecture aligned with enterprise standards and business objectives.
• Evaluate solution alternatives and document recommendations, trade-offs, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and constraints.
• Create architecture diagrams, integration designs, data flows, deployment models, and technology roadmaps.
• Define application, integration, infrastructure, data, security, and operational architecture.
• Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, performance, availability, resilience, maintainability, and security.
• Lead architecture and design review sessions with engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, and operations teams.
• Provide technical direction to development teams throughout design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Review technical designs and implementation approaches for alignment with the approved architecture.
• Identify architecture risks and technical debt and recommend mitigation or remediation actions.
• Establish reusable patterns, technology standards, and engineering guidelines.
• Support effort estimation, implementation planning, dependency management, and release-readiness activities.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and risk teams to incorporate required controls into the solution.
• Support proofs of concept and technology evaluations when required.
• Review vendor or third-party solutions for technical fit, security, integration, scalability, and operational supportability.
• Participate in production-readiness reviews and provide guidance for monitoring, incident management, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.
• Communicate architecture decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor technical leads, developers, and other architects while promoting consistent engineering practices

Salary Range: $130,000 to $150,000 per year

Qualifications

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE