Senior Solution Architect

This is a technical leadership role rather than a hands-on development role: the architect owns the technical integrity of the solution and leads, reviews and challenges multidisciplinary engineering teams, without personally developing applications, ETL pipelines or platform components.

• Own and maintain the end-to-end solution architecture across application, data, integration, cloud, security and analytics domains.
• Translate business, functional and non-functional requirements into coherent and implementable technical solutions.
• Define architecture principles, patterns, interfaces and major technical decisions, and record them.
• Lead and provide technical direction to multidisciplinary engineering and delivery teams.
• Coordinate specialist architects and technical leads where available, and work directly with engineers where required.
• Review solution designs and implementation approaches and ensure alignment with the approved architecture.
• Lead the implementation of an overarching Quality Management approach covering the end-to-end solution lifecycle — architecture, data, applications, integrations, infrastructure, security, testing, deployment and operations.
• Establish quality standards, controls, acceptance criteria, quality gates, review mechanisms and automated testing practices to ensure solution reliability, consistency and maintainability.
• Govern and continuously assess solution quality throughout delivery — monitoring quality performance, identifying defects and systemic quality risks, driving root-cause analysis and corrective action, and promoting continuous improvement.
• Lead resolution of complex technical issues and cross-domain dependencies.
• Ensure security, privacy, data governance, quality, performance, scalability, availability and maintainability requirements are addressed.
• Ensure appropriate DevOps, automation, testing, monitoring and engineering-quality practices are incorporated into delivery.
• Assess technical risks, technical debt and solution/release readiness.
• Work closely with Project Managers on technical estimation, planning, sequencing, dependencies, risks, progress and delivery readiness.
• Provide clear technical reporting, and communicate complex architecture matters to management and non-technical stakeholders.

Required: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or a related technical discipline.
Required: 12 + years in technology roles, of which at least 5 in Solution Architecture, Technical Architecture or comparable technical leadership, with the most recent role held in an architecture or technical leadership capacity.
Required: Proven delivery of complex enterprise solutions combining data platforms and applications, and experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams across the full solution delivery lifecycle.