Job Description

Solution Architect

• Define the architecture of a solution leveraging existing or suggesting new patterns, aligned with enterprise standards and frameworks
• Apply design patterns and good practices to ensure scalable and maintainable solutions
• Create high-level and detailed design documents
• Use EA modelling tools such as ADOIT, ArchiMate, or similar for architecture handbook documentation
• Create sequential diagrams and other UML artefacts to illustrate solution flows and interactions
• Gather, validate, and translate business requirements into technical specifications
• Design and oversee implementation of MS architectures and MFE solutions, EDA, etc.
• Define integration patterns and ensure interoperability across platforms (e.g.: MFT, API gateway)
• Collaborating with tech teams on best practices
• Proficiency in JavaScript and modern frameworks (React, Angular, Vue)
• Proficiency with JSON, RESTful APIs, and modern web technologies
• Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) for deployment
• Cloud Platforms: Familiarity with Azure and AWS for solution hosting and integration
• Tools: Experience using Confluence for documentation and Jira for project tracking
• Assess existing systems for scalability, security, and performance improvements
• Elaborate and communicate the architecture of the given architectural solutions
• Engage with multiple stakeholders (architecture / infrastructure / vendor partners)
• Skilled in a multiple technology area (cloud, integration, development, security)
• Ensure clarity and alignment amongst technical stakeholders to ensure successful execution based on agreed solution architecture design
• Understand the complexities of multiple solution components
• Develop architectural solutions for a complex product
• Utilize architecture patterns to suggest the most adequate utilization of technical platforms in support of the holistic domain architecture design
• Maintain and evolve Architecture Documentation and Architecture Handbooks using tools and platforms, following the enterprise principles, policies and standards
• Engage with external vendor project teams to explain proposed Solution Architecture
• Ensure technical alignment of the solution implementation
• Deliver and maintain consistent architecture documentation
• Deliver completeness of infrastructure landscape
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues through point-to-point sessions with technical teams
• Diagnose integration and performance problems and propose effective solutions
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving
• Adaptability, proactive attitude, and stakeholder engagement.

Skills Required