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
