Solution Architect (with Business Analysis Expertise)

Role purpose. We need a Solution Architect who can turn business requirements into solution designs and then defend those designs in front of development, infrastructure and integration teams. The role owns the technical direction of the solution. It is not a documentation role. You will be expected to question vendor and internal proposals, find weaknesses before delivery starts, and say plainly when a design does not meet the requirement, the security standard or the budget. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Own the end-to-end solution design across application, data, integration, security and infrastructure layers . • Produce architecture documents, data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, and integration and API specifications. • Select architecture patterns and justify the choices, including trade-offs, cost and risk. Technical challenge and design assurance • Review designs from developers, vendors and infrastructure teams, and challenge them on feasibility, scalability, performance, security and supportability. • Review integration approaches (REST, event-driven, batch, file-based) and test them against failure scenarios, volumes and dependencies. • Validate sizing, environment and hosting assumptions (Dev/SIT/UAT/Production, cloud and on-premises) with the infrastructure teams. • Identify technical debt, bottlenecks and single points of failure in existing systems and recommend fixes. • Check that delivered work matches the approved design and raise deviations early. Business analysis • Elicit and document business, functional, non-functional and technical requirements (BRD, FRD, TRD, user stories). • Trace every requirement to a design element and to a test case. • Run workshops with business owners and translate their needs into clear technical deliverables . • Support impact assessment on scope, effort and timeline when requirements change. Stakeholder and vendor coordination • Act as the technical point of contact between business owners, delivery teams and third-party vendors. • Review vendor proposals and technical responses against signed scope and requirements. • Advise project and delivery managers on technical risks, dependencies and decisions that need escalation.

Own the end-to-end solution design across application, data, integration, security and infrastructure layers. Produce architecture documents, data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, and integration and API specifications. Select architecture patterns and justify the choices, including trade-offs, cost and risk. Technical challenge and design assurance. Review designs from developers, vendors and infrastructure teams, and challenge them on feasibility, scalability, performance, security and supportability. Review integration approaches (REST, event-driven, batch, file-based) and test them against failure scenarios, volumes and dependencies. Validate sizing, environment and hosting assumptions (Dev/SIT/UAT/Production, cloud and on-premises) with the infrastructure teams. Identify technical debt, bottlenecks and single points of failure in existing systems and recommend fixes. Check that delivered work matches the approved design and raise deviations early. Elicit and document business, functional, non-functional and technical requirements (BRD, FRD, TRD, user stories). Trace every requirement to a design element and to a test case. Run workshops with business owners and translate their needs into clear technical deliverables. Support impact assessment on scope, effort and timeline when requirements change. Act as the technical point of contact between business owners, delivery teams and third-party vendors. Review vendor proposals and technical responses against signed scope and requirements. Advise project and delivery managers on technical risks, dependencies and decisions that need escalation.