Senior Solution Architect

The Senior Solution Architect is responsible for designing robust, scalable, secure, and business-aligned technology solutions that translate business and functional requirements into end-to-end architecture. The role ensures that proposed solutions are consistent with enterprise architecture principles, standards, security requirements, integration patterns, data requirements, technology direction, and operational needs.

Requirements

· Translate business, functional, and non-functional requirements into end-to-end solution architectures.

· Develop high-level solution designs covering applications, integration, data, infrastructure, cloud, security, and deployment architecture.

· Ensure proposed solutions comply with enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and technology strategies.

· Assess solution options and recommend architecture approaches based on business value, feasibility, scalability, security, interoperability, and total cost of ownership.

· Define integration requirements, interfaces, APIs, messaging patterns, and dependencies between enterprise systems.

· Identify solution-level data requirements, information flows, data ownership dependencies, and integration with enterprise data platforms.

· Define infrastructure, hosting, cloud, network, resilience, availability, and disaster recovery architecture requirements.

· Embed cybersecurity, privacy, identity, access control, and compliance requirements into the solution architecture.

· Conduct architecture reviews, technical design assurance, and solution compliance assessments.

· Identify technical risks, architectural constraints, dependencies, assumptions, and mitigation actions.

· Collaborate with enterprise architects, domain architects, business teams, project managers, developers, infrastructure teams, security teams, and vendors.

· Support technology selection, vendor evaluation, RFP development, proposal assessment, and solution demonstrations.

· Provide architectural guidance throughout the solution lifecycle from concept and design through implementation and transition.

· Support modernization initiatives including cloud adoption, application modernization, API enablement, integration transformation, and legacy replacement.

· Contribute to architecture governance forums and Architecture Review Boards.

Required Experience

· Minimum 10 years of overall experience in information technology, solution design, software engineering, infrastructure, integration, cloud, or related technical domains.

· At least 5 years of hands-on experience in solution architecture or a comparable senior architecture role.

· Demonstrated experience designing complex enterprise solutions involving multiple applications, systems, platforms, and integration points.

· Experience working on large-scale transformation, digital, modernization, or enterprise technology programs.

· Strong exposure to both current-state assessment and target-state solution architecture.

· Experience working with senior business and technology stakeholders in complex organizations.

Core Competencies

· End-to-end solution architecture

· Application and platform architecture

· Integration and API architecture

· Data and information flow design

· Cloud and hybrid architecture

· Infrastructure and deployment architecture

· Security-by-design

· Architecture governance and design assurance

· Technical risk and dependency management

· Technology evaluation and solution option analysis

· Stakeholder management and consulting

· Architecture documentation and modeling

Preferred Frameworks, Standards & Methods

· TOGAF

· ArchiMate

· UML

· BPMN where relevant

· Cloud architecture frameworks and well-architected principles

· API and integration architecture patterns

· Microservices and event-driven architecture principles

· SABSA or equivalent security architecture practices

· ITIL and DevOps / DevSecOps concepts

Preferred Tools & Technology Exposure

· Enterprise architecture tools such as Bizzdesign, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Orbus/iServer, ARIS, or similar platforms.

· Major cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.

· API management, integration, middleware, and messaging technologies.

· Modern application platforms, containerization, and orchestration technologies.

· Architecture documentation, modeling, and collaboration tools.

Preferred Qualifications & Certifications

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.

· TOGAF certification is highly desirable.

· Cloud architecture certifications are highly desirable.

· ArchiMate, security, integration, software architecture, or relevant technology certifications are advantageous.

Personal Attributes

· Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.

· Ability to simplify complex technical topics for business and executive stakeholders.

· Strong communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.

· Ability to work across multiple architecture and technology domains.

· Consulting mindset with a strong focus on quality and practical outcomes.

· Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced and multi-stakeholder environments.