Senior Solution Architect - (Digital Products & Security)

Job Description

Requirements

• 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 and prioritization skills
• - High energy, enthusiasm, and passion for technology and architecture
• - Ability to make autonomous technical decisions with minimal guidance
• - Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities
• - High learning agility and willingness to continuously develop technical expertise
• - Ability to coach and mentor associate and junior architects
• - Ability to work effectively across business, product, engineering, security, infrastructure, and architecture teams
• Delivery & Architecture Governance
• The role will be expected to contribute to:
• - Delivery of complete and self-sufficient architecture solutions within agreed timelines
• - Improvement of architecture design workflows and efficiency through automation
• - Development of reliable, resilient, and secure technology platforms
• - Architecture peer review sessions
• - Definition and adoption of reusable architecture blueprints and reference architectures
• - Technical education

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills Required