Senior Solution Architect - (Digital Products & Security)

About the role

Requirements

• Key Responsibilities
• - Develop, maintain, and enforce architecture standards, guidelines, patterns, and best practices.
• - Design and deliver end-to-end solution architectures based on requirements from product owners and business stakeholders.
• - Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and resilient architecture solutions.
• - Design architectures for web applications, mobile applications, microservices, APIs, and their associated technology ecosystems.
• - Ensure application designs follow established engineering best practices, architectural patterns, user journeys, and UX requirements.
• - Design solutions that balance user experience, business requirements, performance, scalability, reliability, resiliency, availability, and security.
• - Develop end-to-end design patterns and reusable architecture blueprints/reference architectures.
• - Design and oversee integration of applications with surrounding enterprise ecosystems, including mobile applications, microservices, APIs, event streams, message brokers, containers, and cloud-native technologies.
• - Collaborate with Information Security teams to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of enterprise data and technology assets.
• - Ensure solution designs comply with applicable security standards, architecture principles, internal policies, and regulatory requirements.
• - Contribute to building reliable, resilient, secure, and scalable platforms.
• - Deliver complete and self-sufficient architecture solutions and design documents within agreed timelines.
• - Identify opportunities to improve architecture and solution design workflows through automation and process optimization.
• - Conduct architecture peer reviews and ensure proposed solutions align with established standards and reference architectures.
• - Deliver architecture education and knowledge-sharing workshops to architects and technology teams.
• - Coach and mentor associate and junior architects.
• - Work autonomously on complex architecture decisions while seeking alignment from relevant stakeholders where required.
• - Continuously develop technical and professional capabilities, with a particular focus on Security Architecture.
• Required Technical & Architecture Skills
• Solution & Application Architecture
• - Strong overall knowledge of software engineering and solution architecture.
• - Minimum 5+ years of experience designing applications, including web and mobile applications.
• - Minimum 5+ years of experience designing microservices and APIs.
• - Deep understanding of modern architectural patterns including:
• - Microservices
• - API architecture
• - Application architecture
• - Mobile application architecture
• - Event-driven architecture
• - Distributed systems
• - Experience designing complete end-to-end solutions across complex enterprise ecosystems.
• - Strong understanding of application integration patterns and enterprise technology ecosystems.
• Cloud & Cloud-Native Architecture
• - Minimum 5+ years of experience working with cloud-native technologies.
• - Strong hands-on architectural understanding of:
• - Containers
• - Kubernetes
• - OpenShift
• - Service Mesh
• - Virtualization
• - Experience with cloud platforms such as:
• - OpenShift
• - Microsoft Azure
• - AWS
• - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• - Ability to design secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available cloud-native solutions.
• Security Architecture
• - Minimum 3+ years of experience in Cyber Security / Information Security.
• - Strong understanding of Security Architecture principles.
• - Deep understanding of:
• - Authentication
• - Authorization
• - Encryption
• - Logging & Monitoring
• - Application Security
• - OWASP Top 10
• - Infrastructure Security
• - Cloud Security
• - Security regulations and compliance
• - Experience collaborating with Information Security teams to embed security into solution architecture and application design.
• - Ability to balance security requirements with business functionality, customer experience, performance, and delivery objectives.
• Integration & Enterprise Ecosystem
• Strong experience integrating applications with enterprise technologies including:
• - Mobile applications
• - Microservices
• - REST/API ecosystems
• - Event streams
• - Message brokers
• - Containers
• - Cloud-native platforms
• - Distributed services
• Architecture Tools & Platforms
• - Experience with enterprise architecture tools such as Enterprise Architect.
• - Experience with data modeling tools.
• - Practical experience working with enterprise architecture standards, blueprints, reusable patterns, and reference architectures.
• Behavioral & Leadership Competencies
• The successful candidate should demonstrate:
• - Strong delivery focus while maintaining the right balance between customer experience, business requirements, performance, reliability, resiliency, and security.
• - Excellent analytical and critical-thinking skills.
• - Strong stakeholder management and expectation-management capabilities.
• - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• - Strong time-management

Responsibilities

Skills

• Solution Architecture
• Application Architecture
• Microservices
• APIs
• Cloud-Native Architecture
• Security Architecture
• Event-driven Architecture
• Distributed Systems
• Web Applications
• Mobile Applications
• Enterprise Ecosystems
• Integration Patterns
• Containerization
• Architecture Standards
• Architecture Patterns