Solutions Architect

Job Type: Full Time – Onsite
Years of Experience: 8+ years

Job Description
Translate enterprise architecture policies into practical CDP architecture standards, reusable artefacts, and secure, scalable solution designs.

Role Overview
We are looking for a hands-on Solutions Architect to translate enterprise architecture policies and organisational standards into practical CDP architecture standards, templates, processes, and reusable artefacts.

You will provide end-to-end architecture guidance and assurance to product teams and vendors, supporting solutions from ideation and planning through design and delivery. The role requires broad expertise across application, integration, data, cloud, security, and non-functional architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise architecture, security, cloud, integration, data, and technology policies into clear CDP technical standards and guidelines.
• Develop and maintain architecture principles, reference architectures, approved patterns, templates, checklists, processes, and quality-gate criteria.
• Create and maintain architecture governance artefacts, including high-level design and low-level design templates, review checklists, architecture decision records, risk registers, compliance assessments, and approval workflows.
• Provide hands-on architecture support throughout ideation, planning, sourcing, design, and delivery.
• Guide product teams and vendors on solution design, technology selection, integration, data, security, cloud, and non-functional requirements.
• Review high-level designs, low-level designs, integration designs, and other technical artefacts prepared by delivery teams.
• Evaluate solutions for security, scalability, integration, compliance, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Identify architecture risks, gaps, dependencies, non-compliance, and required remediation actions.
• Promote the reuse of approved shared services, components, reference architectures, and design patterns.
• Support architecture quality gates and provide architecture recommendations and approval decisions.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant technology experience, including solution architecture responsibilities.
• Strong hands-on experience developing architecture standards, templates, processes, reference architectures, and governance artefacts.
• Experience reviewing and guiding secure, scalable, and integrated enterprise solutions.
• Strong knowledge of application, integration, data, cloud, security, and non-functional architecture.
• Experience reviewing high-level designs, low-level designs, integration designs, and related technical documentation.
• Strong technical documentation, stakeholder-management, and vendor-management skills.
• Ability to identify architecture risks, dependencies, compliance gaps, and appropriate remediation measures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in government or large-enterprise environments.