SENIOR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT JOB DESCRIPTION

Every enterprise IT engagement eventually reaches a moment where technical complexity outpaces what a delivery team can resolve alone. That moment belongs to the Senior Solutions Architect - the person accountable for translating ambiguous business requirements into architecture decisions that development teams can actually build against. Working within professional services, product companies, or large enterprise IT departments, this role governs solution design from initial discovery through post-launch governance, answering to CIOs, delivery managers, and enterprise architecture boards. TOGAF-aligned frameworks and SOA-to-microservices migration patterns are the daily grammar of this work, not occasional references.

As the Senior Solutions Architect, you define and govern end-to-end technical architecture for enterprise-scale programs, converting business strategy into implementable solution designs that reduce delivery risk and align to long-term platform goals. You operate within a cross-functional organization - partnering with product owners, engineering leads, and senior business stakeholders - while maintaining architectural authority across multiple concurrent initiatives.

Career Impact: Owning enterprise architecture decisions at the SOA and microservices layer positions a Senior Solutions Architect as a recognized technical authority within large IT organizations and the broader professional services market.

Business Impact: The architecture specifications this role produces determine whether enterprise programs ship on schedule, integrate cleanly with legacy systems, and meet the non-functional requirements - scalability, security, and availability - that service-level agreements demand.

Growth Opportunity: Mastery of reference architecture governance and TOGAF-aligned delivery at this level opens a direct path to Enterprise Architect, Chief Architect, or VP of Architecture roles within three to five years.

• Design enterprise solution architectures spanning distributed systems, integration layers, and cloud deployment models to meet defined business requirements.
• Lead requirements discovery sessions with CIOs, business owners, and technical stakeholders to translate functional needs into architectural specifications.
• Develop solution architecture documents, reference architectures, deployment guides, and Statements of Work during the pre-sales and delivery cycle.
• Evaluate and recommend technology options against cost, risk, scalability, and alignment to enterprise architecture standards.
• Govern architecture compliance across delivery teams by reviewing implementations and documenting technical debt against approved designs.
• Define target and transition architectures to guide application modernization and platform migration programs.
• Mentor engineers and junior architects, reviewing design decisions and establishing patterns that improve team delivery productivity.
• Partner with pre-sales, account management, and product teams to scope engagements, estimate effort, and produce client-facing proposals.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 7 or more years of solution architecture experience, with demonstrated ownership of enterprise-scale distributed systems design.
• Proficiency in enterprise architecture frameworks including TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent, applied within an agile or hybrid delivery environment.
• Demonstrated competence in service-oriented and microservices architecture patterns, API design, and integration with legacy systems.
• Experience governing cloud architecture decisions across IaaS, PaaS, and hybrid deployment models, including security and compliance considerations.
• Ability to produce and present architecture artifacts - logical diagrams, deployment topologies, sequence diagrams, and functional decompositions - to both technical and executive audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including facilitation of architecture governance boards and cross-functional alignment sessions.
• Hands-on background in software engineering sufficient to evaluate implementation feasibility and review code-level design decisions.

• Certification in enterprise or cloud architecture, such as AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or TOGAF 9 Certified.
• Experience leading pre-sales technical engagements, including scope estimation, RFP responses, and Statements of Work authorship for professional services organizations.
• Familiarity with ERP, CRM, or BPM platform ecosystems and the integration patterns required to connect them to enterprise data layers.
• Prior experience as technical lead within a government, federal, or regulated-industry program involving formal IT capital planning or investment review processes.

• Architecture review cycle time, measuring how quickly solution designs move from draft to stakeholder-approved baseline.
• Technical debt ratio per program, tracking the percentage of approved deviations from reference architecture logged per delivery.
• Pre-sales win rate contribution, reflecting the proportion of scoped opportunities that progress to contract where this role provided architecture support.
• Stakeholder approval rate on first submission, measuring how often architecture documents are accepted without a major revision cycle.
• On-time delivery rate for architecture artifacts, capturing whether solution design deliverables are produced within agreed sprint or milestone windows.
• Typical tools: architecture modeling (commonly Archimate or draw.io); API design platforms (commonly Swagger or Postman)

• Base Salary Range: $150,000 to $195,000 per year
• Bonus: Annual performance bonus, typically 10 to 20% of base salary
• Equity: RSUs or stock options common at larger tech and consulting firms
• Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer contribution standard
• PTO: 15 to 25 days per year, plus public holidays; some firms offer unlimited PTO
• Common Perks: Remote or hybrid flexibility, conference and certification budget, home office stipend

Figures are estimates based on general US market benchmarks and may be outdated. Adjust based on location, company size, and seniority level.

Successful completion of a background check is required as a condition of employment for this role. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process should notify the hiring organization upon request. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.

The Solutions Architect owns the end-to-end delivery of Entando implementations at enterprise scale, creating statements of work, work breakdown structures, and staffing plans that translate complex customer needs into actionable roadmaps. Working alongside Engineering, Sales, and PS Operations, the Solutions Architect shapes pre-sales and consultancy engagements from discovery through migration, enabling customers to expand and adopt Entando solutions with confidence.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and deliver implementation roadmaps or delivery plans aligned to defined business outcomes and Entando/industry best practices.
• Lead execution of Entando's packaged consultancy engagements such as discovery, roadmap, and migration support.
• Review system designs to select appropriate technology and ensure efficient integration of multiple systems.
• Coach, mentor, and guide peers while providing technical leadership and delivering Entando training.
• Provide technical support for global pre-sales, including presentations, demos, workshops, POCs, and other sales-related activities.
• Conduct pre-sales workshops to capture customer requirements, translate into proposed solutions, and communicate delivery strategy.
• Work with account teams to position services and advise on architecture and design to drive expansion and adoption.
• Write Statements of Work, work breakdowns, and staffing plans during the sales cycle.
• Help develop and refine company-wide best practices including architectural blueprints, deployment patterns, testing, security, and configuration management.
• Perform research into technology partners and vendor solutions in context of client integration requirements.
• Maintain Entando knowledge sources including Confluence, Wiki, and FAQs, and collaborate with Engineering, Sales, and PS Operations as needed.

Education & Experience

• 8+ years of experience in a professional services organization or consulting role.
• 3+ years supporting pre-sales activities and building solution content including presentations, demos, and POCs.
• 5+ years of team-lead experience managing multiple enterprise-class projects with minimal supervision.
• 5+ years of Java development experience and 3+ years each with RESTful JSON APIs, Spring/Spring Boot, and Docker/Kubernetes.
• 5+ years with agile software development practices; experience with CI/CD, DevOps, Git, Maven, and JavaScript build tools such as npm.
• Extensive knowledge of enterprise architectures, software engineering principles, and software quality dimensions such as testability, maintainability, and security.
• Experience with frontend technologies including JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, Bootstrap, and an ES6 framework such as React, Angular, or Vue; knowledge of SASS and responsive/mobile-first design.
• Experience with public and private clouds (AWS, Azure, GCE), microservices architectures, and modern application development practices.
• Knowledge of Keycloak, Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Middleware, JHipster, and web components or micro-frontends.
• Strong client service orientation with the ability to develop productive customer relationships and articulate strategic solutions.
• Availability to travel up to 80% and/or open to relocation; highly proficient in spoken and written English.

Reporting to technology leadership, the Senior Solutions Architect collaborates with business users and technology leaders to define and implement the enterprise technology roadmap and build a technology refreshment plan that modernizes IT infrastructure in line with a defined EA roadmap. Partnering with management and executive teams across all divisions, the Senior Solutions Architect delivers high-quality end-to-end business application solutions that align technical initiatives to strategic business outcomes.

Primary Duties

• Create architectural design proposals and prepare architecture reports for management and executive teams.
• Recommend solutions to improve new and existing systems and educate staff through training and individual support.
• Conduct regular and ad-hoc standards reviews on every architecture component for different enterprise systems.
• Prepare technical reports and deliver presentations to all levels of management to define business implications of technical initiatives and secure buy-in.
• Drive and promote architectural standards and policies, and provide architecture advice to all levels of engineers and managers.

Qualifications & Experience

• Postgraduate qualification in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 12+ years of Information Systems Analysis, Design, and Architecture Development experience; consultancy experience in architecture engagements a distinct advantage.
• Understanding of EA concepts and implementation implications relative to organizational maturity along the EA roadmap.
• Ability to define business and systems roadmaps, lead architecture analysis, modelling, and design aligned to business and architecture strategy.
• Excellent experience in Data Science languages (R, Python), visual analytic tools (SAS, Tableau), ETL tools (Informatica/Talend), data warehouse technology (Oracle Exadata, SQL Server, Teradata), data lake technology (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Hive, MapReduce), and messaging technology (Solace/Tibco).
• Experience writing and executing RFI/RFP processes to evaluate and recommend the correct technology or product.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to present technical concepts to all levels of management; Chinese language skills a plus.

Sitting at the intersection of federal enterprise architecture and commercial technology solutions, the Senior Solutions Architect provides technical leadership for IT planning, solution design, and target architecture development in support of federal CIOs and senior IT managers. Operating across the GDIT enterprise architecture team and customer stakeholder groups, the Senior Solutions Architect evaluates investment requests, drives application modernization, and delivers solution packages that reduce cost and improve technology outcomes.

Duties

• Participate in the Enterprise Architecture Working Group (EAWG) and work with the GDIT EA team to develop target architectures and evaluate IT investment requests.
• Work with the customer CIO and GDIT project staff to facilitate IT strategic planning and respond to technical questions and research requests.
• Perform solution scans and design and estimate the cost of technical solutions satisfying IT investment requirements.
• Prepare solution packages documenting recommended technical solutions with estimated costs and benefits.
• Advise and drive an application modernization initiative and facilitate staff in conducting fit-gap evaluations of proposed COTS solutions.
• Provide advice and support for systems development, coordinate reachback with SMEs within GDIT, and prepare deliverable reports and briefings.

Skills & Qualifications

• BA/BS and 15 years of relevant experience; MA/MS in Computer Science or Engineering preferred.
• Strong knowledge of information technology across all layers of the IT stack and of commercial/COTS software products (CRM, ECM, BPM, etc.).
• Solution architecture experience including successful systems development involving COTS integration, lifecycle cost estimation, and application modernization initiatives.
• Understanding of federal enterprise architecture, IT capital planning, and business analysis.
• Strong communication, presentation, facilitation, and customer service skills.

A key member of a consultancy team, the Senior Solutions Architect describes business processes, documents requirements, and assesses solution design against client needs across vendor selection and implementation projects involving ERP and related platforms. Collaborating with project managers, implementation partners, and key users, the Senior Solutions Architect delivers quality-assured application solutions that transfer cleanly to clients and support measurable business process improvement.

Accountabilities

• Describe business processes and document requirements accounting for standard application functionality and key user requirements, in contexts of vendor selection or implementation projects.
• Advise the client and/or implementation partner on introducing new technology to support business processes and assess solution and technical design against client requirements.
• Challenge application vendors to guarantee that applications meet the client's business and technical requirements and goals.
• Manage and adjust the implementation project from an overall solution view including interfaces and provide input for test management activities.
• Guide and support key users during implementation, take ownership for quality assurance of applications, and organize and maintain project documentation for transfer to client.
• Team up with the project manager and implementation team.

Experience & Qualifications

• Master's degree in engineering, economics, or computer science.
• Minimum 5 years' experience within a consultancy firm.
• Proven experience in ERP and related systems such as MES, APS, and CRM.
• Good insight into E2E business processes including procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, plan-to-inventory, record-to-report, and market-to-order.
• Team player with strong analytical and communication skills; autonomous, dynamic, result-oriented, rigorous, and committed; sets an example of giving and receiving constructive feedback.
• Fluent in Dutch, English, and French (spoken and written).

Embedded within a product-focused technical organization, the Senior Solutions Architect gathers requirements, authors specifications, and designs solutions while serving as the technical lead on customer programs for both government environments and Fortune 500 companies. Working closely with sales teams and end-user communities, the Senior Solutions Architect drives improvements to IDEMIA product quality and delivery efficiency, producing high-quality outcomes with minimal supervision.

Core Functions

• Lead discovery of business and technical requirements for complex distributed enterprise architectures within large government environments and Fortune 500 companies.
• Communicate effectively through accurate documentation and succinct oral presentations using slides, whiteboards, and demonstrations.
• Provide technical cross-functional leadership for customer and internal team interactions through face-to-face, on-site, and remote meetings.
• Design and coordinate delivery of IDEMIA products to meet customer needs, including unique configurations and customization efforts.
• Design technical interfaces between customers' and IDEMIA's products while handling scope creep, setting expectations, and maintaining customer satisfaction.
• Coordinate the work of multiple technical resources and participate in the sales process to evaluate and make technical recommendations on opportunities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent.
• 7+ years leading technical teams through a full Systems Deployment Life Cycle (SDLC); 5+ years as a Solutions Architect and/or related Technical Leadership role.
• 7+ years working directly with end users to synthesize, capture, and communicate requirements; 5+ years working directly with external customers in the same capacity.
• 2+ years leading the design of systems integration work; experience as a liaison between a product company and external customers.
• Solid understanding of networks, data transmission, platform and architecture, XML, web services, security, and databases.

Accelerating delivery across hybrid cloud environments depends on the Senior Solutions Architect, who designs sustainable solutions, defines data migration strategies from on-premise to cloud, and advises stakeholders on architecture and system operations. Based within Homeland Security Solutions and working directly with Engineering, Data, and Software Development teams, the Senior Solutions Architect serves as a technical advisor on priority projects that optimize delivery and build scalable cloud tenancy models.

Areas of Ownership

• Interact closely with key project stakeholders to design, plan, and implement sustainable solutions.
• Design standards for software delivery, data management, and system architecture.
• Lead and support the migration of data and data systems from on-premise environments to new cloud-based environments.
• Work directly with Engineering, Data, and Software Development teams to optimize capability delivery and software and system change delivery processes.
• Define flexible tenancy structure that allows clients to scale across ground, hosted, private, and public cloud models.
• Assist in building and documenting architecture and roadmaps to improve data services and represent operational interests with stakeholders.

Technical Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
• Must successfully complete a stringent Background Investigation and obtain required Government Security clearance.
• A minimum of 12 years of related experience, including experience working with Federal clients.
• Hands-on experience with networking and managing servers; experience with configuration and change control best practices.
• Current working knowledge of software development, cloud engineering, and data management practices.

As the Senior Solutions Architect, this role shapes and defines the technology strategy for All 4, progressing platform architecture and technical infrastructure across a suite of video streaming platforms under the guidance of the Head of Marketing and Viewer Experiences and the Chief Architect. The All 4 technology organization relies on this work to maintain architectural blueprints, govern technical debt, and enable application development teams to deliver the Product Feature Roadmap for websites, native applications, and supporting services.

Strategic Responsibilities

• Assist in the development and maintenance of target blueprints for client-facing systems and supporting infrastructures, working across multiple levels of the technology stack from UI downwards.
• Assist multiple internal and external application development teams in delivering the Product Feature Roadmap for websites, native applications, and supporting services.
• Balance adherence to architectural blueprints with timely pragmatic support to projects while engaging and influencing disparate stakeholders.
• Provide technical due diligence support when evaluating new technology-based business opportunities and monitor advances in IT to identify opportunities for leveraging emerging technologies.
• Maintain technical credibility with development teams by taking a hands-on approach and engaging with tech leads, developers, testers, and business analysts at a detailed level.
• Make decisions regarding All 4 technological needs, manage architectural demand across the application estate, and ensure artefacts and design standards are delivered to time and quality.
• Build collaborative team culture; coach, mentor, and progress the team; manage technical debt; and represent Channel 4 in governance and Architecture communities with the Chief Architect.
• Support translation of business requirements into solution architecture, design, and technical product roadmaps.

Background & Experience

• Broad architectural experience based on practical experience in systems development, ideally on high-profile, large-scale applications from feasibility to implementation.
• Significant experience in media with live streaming and VoD, including designing and implementing change in complex multi-supplier ecosystems.
• Expert experience in services, data communications, web-based and service-based technologies, performance, scalability, maintainability, deployment, operations, technology infrastructure, and security.
• Experience with Service-Oriented and Domain-based Architectures, Business Process Orchestration, Workflow, ESB, and object-oriented, functional, and scripting programming languages.
• Development technologies including Java, .NET, and HTML; techniques including Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall.
• Experience implementing COTS and SaaS software packages; knowledge of web application architecture, Business Intelligence, and Data Warehousing.

Senior Solutions Architect oversees the review of business requirements, leads solution architecture modeling, and ensures code compliance with architectural standards across distributed enterprise web applications built on Microsoft and open-source technology stacks. The work directly supports delivery managers, development leads, and technology stakeholders by producing reference architectures, deployment guides, and solution artifacts that align physical implementations to approved designs.

Key Deliverables

• Oversee and contribute to the review and analysis of business requirements and advise delivery managers on translating them into technology solutions.
• Analyze technical options and recommend appropriate solutions; provide thought leadership around best practices and emerging concepts.
• Identify, evaluate, and recommend emerging technologies and service providers; perform resource, technical, and risk assessments.
• Lead and oversee the design and modeling of solution architectures and verify alignment of physical implementations.
• Develop and deliver solution architecture documents, service specifications, deployment guides, prototypes, pilots, reference architectures, and solution artifacts.
• Ensure code compliance with architecture standards, document technical debt, coordinate software system installations, and monitor specifications are met.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience architecting distributed systems and enterprise web applications; 7+ years of hands-on .NET framework and/or Azure development experience.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile/SCRUM, BPM design principles, and rules-, event-, and messaging-based architectures.
• Understanding of SOA, orchestration, web service endpoint creation, UML, and integration to legacy APIs, Brokers, and Service Buses; Microsoft MSMQ or Azure Service Bus preferred.
• Hands-on code development in C#, Transact SQL, and PL/SQL; 3+ years of SOA design, development, and implementation of web services (WCF and/or Web API).
• Architecting experience in both Microsoft and open-source technology stacks; knowledge of MS SQL Server, Oracle, and secure coding practices.
• Experience in designing and developing web services following SOAP/REST/JSON standards, and experience in design and architecture governance within a large corporate environment.
• Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, relationship-building, and project management skills; able to present technical information to non-technical audiences.

The Senior Solutions Architect delivers solutions for Media and Entertainment customers by formulating adoption strategies for Streaming Media, Broadcast, Post-Production, Analytics, and AI/ML tools within the AWS Cloud platform, supporting account teams and service engineering groups across one-to-many engagements. Working alongside AWS field sales, training, and support teams, the Senior Solutions Architect builds deep customer relationships, develops proof-of-concepts, and captures best-practice knowledge that accelerates platform adoption across the M&E vertical.

Job Functions

• Support AWS Account teams in formulating adoption strategies for Streaming Media, Broadcast, Post-Production, Personalization, Analytics, AI/ML, and Supply Chain tools within the Media and Entertainment vertical.
• Work with existing and potential customers to understand business and technical needs and develop solutions leveraging the AWS Cloud platform.
• Collaborate with AWS field sales, training, and support teams to ensure customer success and act as technical liaison between customers and service engineering teams.
• Evangelize AWS services and streaming media solutions through blogs, whitepapers, reference architectures, and public speaking at events such as AWS Summit and re:Invent.
• Provide one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions; capture and share best-practice knowledge pertaining to media technologies within the AWS solutions architecture community.
• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers and develop proof-of-concepts for media applications.

Technical Qualifications

• Technical degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Media, or related field required; Master's degree preferred.
• 10+ years of design, implementation, or consulting experience with large-scale enterprise applications emphasizing Media and Entertainment.
• 10+ years of work deployment experience in core infrastructure technologies including compute, storage, networking, databases, security, and media creation and distribution applications.
• 8+ years within specific technology domain areas such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, or data and analytics.
• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting experience in applications or infrastructures; 3+ years working with multi-national customers in support of technology sales or consumer-facing applications.
• Understanding of OTT, Broadcast, Asset Management, Live (Sports/News), Post Production, and Broadcast/Video pipeline ISV technology.
• Experience with cloud solutions, virtual platforms, software development, and operational management practices; understanding of security, risk, compliance frameworks, disaster recovery, and high availability architectures.
• Experience with large-scale systems integration involving on-premises technology and public cloud platforms; demonstrated experience developing enterprise application architectures in complex environments.

Reporting to senior leadership within frog's Solutions Architecture team, the Senior Solutions Architect owns the reference architecture definition for web applications, performs technology feasibility assessments, and writes technical architecture documents that guide digital transformation engagements for Fortune 500 clients. Partnering with creative, client, and development teams across the full product lifecycle, the Senior Solutions Architect advances frog's intellectual property and enables clients to realize their product vision from concept to production.

What You'll Do

• Work closely with creative and client teams to perform technology feasibility assessments and gap analysis on client architectures, identifying challenges and opportunities.
• Participate in project scoping and estimation tasks and work with creative teams to translate interaction design into requirements and new architecture possibilities.
• Own the reference architecture definition for web applications at frog; establish and build web application architecture for new client systems based on the latest industry developments.
• Write technical architecture and detailed software design documents; develop intellectual property for frog and customers.
• Develop points of view on emerging technologies via research or rapid POCs and socialize them within frog and to clients.
• Support client organizations pre- and post-launch; coach junior architects and serve as the technical expert voice for client engagements including pre-sales support.

Professional Experience

• At least 5+ years of web application development experience executing the full SDLC from concept to production.
• Evidenced experience in a consultancy or professional services environment, including technical sales support and generating architecture design deliverables for internal and external consumption.
• Conversant in a wide range of technologies from software stacks to enterprise systems such as CRM, CMS, iPaaS, ESB, and data warehousing.
• Experience in additional technical domains such as mobile, IoT, AI, data science, AR/VR, or graphics/animation.
• Capable of creating high-level estimates based on limited requirements or hero flows.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable working on highly dynamic, collaborative teams across the full product lifecycle.

Sitting at the intersection of business stakeholder needs and enterprise technology delivery, the Senior Solutions Architect creates solution architectures compliant with security guardrails and presents detailed designs to senior management across business and application domains. Operating across Product Owners, Lead Engineers, domain architects, and development and test teams, the Senior Solutions Architect identifies risks, resolves architectural issues, and ensures that delivered solutions meet fit-for-purpose standards grounded in Enterprise guidelines.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to refine and understand requirements while considering existing system capabilities.
• Create Solution Architectures based on journeys and requirements, complying with security architecture guardrails.
• Work with Product Owners, Lead Engineers, and domain architects to agree upon architectural solutions and document and present high-level and detailed solution architecture for stakeholders and senior management.
• Identify risks, issues, and dependencies relating to the solution and ensure senior developers and testers fully understand the solution design.
• Support development and test teams in diagnosing and resolving architectural and technical issues in a consultative capacity throughout the project.

Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years as a solution architect with proven experience delivering fit-for-purpose architectures across Business, Data, Application, and Technology domains based on Enterprise guidelines.
• AWS Solution Architect Associate or Professional Certification, TOGAF certification, and telecommunications domain experience highly desirable.
• Experience in API gateway design and integration with legacy and strategic systems; experience with SaaS-based solutions and Cloud Platforms.
• Experience in online technologies and frameworks including JEE, JSP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, Spring, Angular, React, and Web Sockets.
• Experience in integration technologies including SOAP, REST, JMS, JPA, ESBs, XML/XSLT, RabbitMQ, and NodeJS; experience with identity, CRM (Salesforce), payment gateways, and microservices.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills; able to convey complex ideas to stakeholders at all levels and work both independently and as part of a large team.

The Senior Solutions Architect leads end-to-end systems architecture governance by identifying architectural risk, managing key design decisions through governance processes, and validating solutions through prototypes built in collaboration with software engineering teams. Working continuously with key stakeholders across small to medium-sized teams, the Senior Solutions Architect evolves reference architectures and design patterns that drive standardisation, reuse, and long-term architecture productivity within an agile SDLC.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Collaborate continuously with key stakeholders to ensure needs are met in the architecture.
• Provide direction through the definition of target and transition architectures to satisfy different stakeholder perspectives.
• Identify technical and architectural risk, define solution options for mitigation, and manage key design decisions (KDDs) through architecture governance.
• Validate KDDs through execution of architectural prototypes in collaboration with software engineering.
• Evolve the system architecture based on new demand and architectural prototyping; continually explore and share technology opportunities that improve the physical architecture.
• Define and evolve reference architectures and design patterns that drive standardisation, reuse, and architecture development productivity.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science or an engineering-related subject.
• Strong experience delivering, describing, and governing end-to-end systems architecture in a similar role; experience in a leadership position providing vision and direction across small to medium-sized teams.
• Solid experience in the solution architecture discipline, ideally within a recognised agile SDLC; experience developing architecture using a recognised framework such as TOGAF.
• Solid background in software engineering; experience with data-intensive applications, real-time data, stream processing, and cloud-native and message-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with microservices and IoT architectures; knowledge of relational, NoSQL, time-series databases, data lakes, and analytics.
• Exposure to a range of industry-standard architecture development methods and modelling languages.

Embedded within a cross-functional technology organization, the Senior Solutions Architect architects, implements, and optimizes multiple areas of application design while driving multi-system initiatives that span user experience, integration, and cloud deployment. Working closely with business management, IT, vendors, and development leads, the Senior Solutions Architect produces solution designs, documents best practices, and applies architectural principles that guide teams toward scalable, well-structured enterprise systems.

Role Responsibilities

• Assume responsibility to architect, implement, and optimize multiple areas of application design and drive parts of larger multi-system initiatives.
• Produce solution designs including proofs of concept, cost/benefit analyses, training plans, configuration, and service level requirements for implementation by development teams.
• Conduct research on new and emerging technologies, identify new components to procure or develop, and provide short-term solutions as well as long-term architecture strategy and evolution paths.
• Identify, analyze, and communicate architecture and integration options; document best practices and solution blueprints.
• Interact with business management, IT, vendors, and industry experts to collect requirements, understand options, and determine solutions.
• Apply established architectural principles and assist development leads in implementing architectural strategies and enterprise and application design patterns.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 7 years' experience in a Solutions Architect role designing systems spanning user interface, services, data, integration, deployment, and cloud.
• Real-world experience applying enterprise, domain, and software design patterns; expertise in microservice-based web architecture, cloud platforms (AWS preferred), and avoiding common pitfalls.
• Competence in API design across multiple digital platforms and client form factors (web, desktop, mobile, IoT); experience with distributed enterprise systems spanning UX, authentication, integration, and data.
• Knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript required; experience in GraphQL for API testing required.
• Proficient in agile methodologies, distributed version control/git workflow, CI/CD pipelines, and application monitoring.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to create documentation for varied audiences; advanced troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Experience working with geographically distributed development teams a plus.

Senior Solutions Architect translates business, technical, functional, and non-functional requirements into solution design artifacts and defines architecture from initial conceptual vision through to concrete software architecture specification for engineering teams to build against. Success in the position means designing software architectures that address Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, and Scalability while managing business relationships and ensuring technical decisions are communicated clearly to stakeholders at all levels.

Scope of Work

• Translate business, technical, functional, and non-functional requirements into solution design artifacts to enable engineers to create efficient and reliable products.
• Review, interpret, and respond to detailed Business Requirements Specifications to ensure alignment between customer expectations and digital capability and strategic plans.
• Define and design technology solutions to assist the business in meeting objectives, including changes to service, process, and operating models.
• Define solution architecture from initial conceptual vision through to concrete software architecture specification and present it to stakeholders from both technical and business backgrounds.
• Manage business relationships to address concerns, understand requirements for new applications, and communicate the impact of technical decisions on business outcomes.
• Research and test relevant technology and platforms to scale technical solutions leveraging the most appropriate technologies.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Experience in TOGAF, ZACHMAN, or similar architectural frameworks.
• 5-8 years of experience in Architecture.
• Deep experience designing software architectures addressing Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Scalability, Service Availability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization.
• Familiarity with AWS Cloud, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, IPaaS, and hybrid deployment models; deep knowledge of AWS Compute, Analytical, and Networking Services.
• Experience in Business Process Management Tools; AWS Architect Certification or equivalent cloud provider certification desirable.

A key member of the Professional Services team, the Senior Solutions Architect leads the technical implementation phase of the customer lifecycle, guiding customers through data integration and continuous data management within Amplitude to advance their product intelligence strategy. Collaborating across Customer Success, product, and engineering teams, the Senior Solutions Architect serves as a trusted technical advisor whose work enables customers to integrate Amplitude into their data flows and unlock measurable business outcomes.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead the technical implementation phase of the customer lifecycle alongside an Engagement Manager and Customer Success team members.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor within the Professional Services team to support implementation across the customer tech stack and continuous data management within Amplitude.
• Draw upon comprehensive understanding of product analytics, Amplitude's vision, and relevant experience to guide customers in building solutions for their product intelligence strategy.
• Maintain strong knowledge of the Amplitude ecosystem to guide customers as they integrate Amplitude into their data flows and business processes.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to innovate internal processes and consult on the product roadmap.

Position Requirements

• 3+ years of customer-facing technical experience leading complex engagements and owning data integration and technical implementation deployments.
• Consistent track record of managing client relationships and technical projects with excellent work ethic, thought leadership, and project management skills.
• Prior experience with enterprise SaaS, product analytics, digital marketing, A/B testing, business intelligence, customer data platforms, data warehouses/pipelines, or Amplitude integration partners.
• Comfortable understanding of programming languages underpinning modern web and mobile development including SQL, JavaScript, Java, Python, and RESTful APIs.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills; ability to explain complex technical concepts to stakeholders at varying experience levels and propose technical solutions that address business needs.
• Fluency in German optional.

Reporting to technology and business leaders across RBC's global architecture areas, the Senior Solutions Architect develops and socializes end-to-end solutions for Payment initiatives aligned to enterprise architecture standards, ISO 20022 payment schemes, and modern microservices platforms. Partnering with Application Development, Technology and Operations, and Global Technology Infrastructure, the Senior Solutions Architect provides technical leadership and mentorship that enables consensus on competing priorities and removes obstacles to initiative delivery.

Executive Functions

• Develop and socialize end-to-end solutions for Payment initiatives through strong collaboration with business and technology leaders, aligned to enterprise architecture, technology standards, and industry best practices.
• Influence decision-making and facilitate teams with multiple stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, contributing to knowledge within the architecture community and proactively driving rationalization of competing interests to achieve consensus.
• Establish and maintain effective partnerships with global architecture areas, Application Development, Technology and Operations, RBC business groups, and Global Technology Infrastructure.
• Manage multiple priorities and aggressive deliverables while taking a leadership role in moving initiatives forward and removing obstacles.

Knowledge Skills & Abilities

• Total IT experience of at least 15 years, with a minimum of 5 years in Application or Solutions Architecture on large complex projects.
• Payment domain knowledge across different payment types and schemes including ISO 20022; experience developing payment use cases for B2C, C2B, B2B, and C2C.
• Advanced knowledge of architecture and design techniques including SOA/Microservices, REST/SOAP, Cloud Native applications, Event-Driven Architecture, Orchestration/Choreography, and Data Pipelines.
• Advanced knowledge of modern technology platforms including PCF, OCP, Azure, Kafka, WebSphere MQ/IIB, RabbitMQ, RDBMS, NoSQL, and legacy mainframe; broad technical knowledge of integration, messaging, security, and data integration.
• Experience developing and implementing domain APIs; hands-on development experience in microservices, Cloud, and DevOps.

The Senior Solutions Architect creates scalable and secure architecture solutions aligned to industry best practices, taking responsibility for architectural design across value streams and building complex system architectures that support defined business outcomes. Working across organizational entities with third-party suppliers, development teams, and conference communities, the Senior Solutions Architect produces tutorials, delivers training, and experiments with emerging technologies to elevate the broader discipline.

Operational Focus

• Design scalable and secure solutions applying industry best practices; responsible for architectural design, issues, and solutions for value streams.
• Recommend and enforce architectural standards for complex infrastructure and build and maintain complex system architectures.
• Troubleshoot mis-specified architectures and rapidly correct them; evaluate and build a network of third-party suppliers.
• Contribute as a top performer, enabling others to contribute; write tutorials, deliver training, and attend conferences to develop and share knowledge.
• Experiment with emerging technologies to understand their future impact.

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 7 years of related work experience.
• Deep understanding of business strategy and ability to craft software, platform, and infrastructure architecture plans to support business outcomes.
• High level of discipline knowledge combined with understanding of market context and customer requirements.
• Good organizational and problem-solving abilities to manage through creative abrasion; able to effectively articulate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes.
• Collaborative attitude with willingness to coach team members, participate in code reviews, and share skills and methods; constantly learns from both success and failure; experiments with emerging technologies.

Sitting at the intersection of technology advisory and customer-facing pre-sales, the Senior Solutions Architect defines, analyzes, and designs complex IT solutions through white-boarding sessions, architectural reviews, demos, and POCs that ensure client needs are met and business value is added. Operating across account management, professional services, delivery teams, and vendor relationships, the Senior Solutions Architect keeps pace with new technology developments and pursues certifications to maintain trusted advisor status for internal and external customers.

Performance Expectations

• Define, analyze, and design complex IT solutions ensuring they meet client needs and add business value.
• Perform white-boarding sessions, architectural reviews, demos, and POCs with customers; produce quality documentation for solution designs and reply to RFPs.
• Analyze current technologies used within the company and determine ways to improve; keep abreast of new technology developments and innovations.
• Act as trusted advisor for internal and external customers on best use of technologies and collaborate with account management, professional services, delivery teams, and vendors.
• Pursue certifications in field of expertise.

Requirements

• University or college degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• At least 3-5 years of relevant working experience, ideally in a customer-facing role.
• Background in Architecture, Systems Design, Software Development, or DevOps; knowledge of a modern programming language and/or scripting.
• Able to set and meet strict deadlines and deliver innovative results under pressure; flexibility to travel abroad.
• Very good communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal English.

The Senior Solutions Architect coordinates the delivery of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform solutions by gathering and analyzing business requirements, serving as Technical Design Authority, and producing high-standard documentation that ensures all projects align with TSG project methodology. Working alongside delivery teams, product management, and internal and external customers, the Senior Solutions Architect monitors solution quality, provides technical mentoring, and keeps implementations current with new Microsoft products, technologies, and practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather and analyze business requirements and produce and recommend appropriate Solution Architecture and designs.
• Write high-standard documentation and lead delivery, define plans, and manage the detailed design.
• Monitor and improve quality in Dynamics solutions and provide technical mentoring to delivery teams.
• Promote the highest level of customer experience for internal and external customers and ensure all projects align with TSG project methodology.
• Serve as Technical Design Authority for Microsoft Solutions, maintain Design Guidelines, and keep solutions innovative with new products, technologies, and practices.

Experience & Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent industry-specific experience; full driving licence.
• Dynamics 365 or Power Platform certifications required.
• Minimum 5 years' experience working with Microsoft Solutions; deep functional knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.
• Experience developing customised solutions; exceptional communication, interpersonal, and documentation skills.
• Good decision-making and organisational skills; able to adapt to and embrace change.
• Highly motivated; sets and achieves challenging goals; measures self against standards of excellence.

Embedded within a field-facing data solutions team, the Senior Solutions Architect builds client relationships, leads prospects through evaluating and adopting Databricks, and authors reference architectures that connect big data technologies to tangible business outcomes across assigned territories. Working closely with account executives and the data community through workshops, seminars, and meet-ups, the Senior Solutions Architect integrates Databricks with third-party applications and translates complex technical concepts for stakeholders at all organizational levels.

Work Activities

• Together with your account executive, build successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory and help establish their data strategy and steps to success.
• Lead prospects through understanding the value, evaluation, and adoption of Databricks as an expert in data analytics, architecture, design, and implementation.
• Support customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications; integrate Databricks with third-party applications to support customer architectures.
• Engage with the data community by leading workshops, seminars, and meet-ups.
• Connect and translate technical concepts to tangible business outcomes for customers and partners at all levels.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent work experience.
• Proficiency in customer-facing pre-sales or consulting roles at all levels, from leadership to technical teams.
• Experience designing and implementing architectures within a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with big data technologies such as Apache Spark, Hadoop, or Cassandra; fluent coding experience in Python, Java, or Scala.
• Core strength in data analytics, data engineering, or data science advantageous.
• Able to navigate customer and partner hierarchies and translate technical concepts to tangible business outcomes.

Senior Solutions Architect guides enterprise application architectural design for client applications built on Unqork's drag-and-drop platform, working alongside designers, configurators, and engineering teams to deliver sound architectural solutions and technical integrations at enterprise scale. The work directly supports clients seeking to build new products and the Unqork engineering team seeking platform improvement, ensuring that all applications across the organization are constructed on well-reasoned architectural design principles.

Core Functions

• Work with designers, configurators, and the engineering team to deliver best-in-class experiences and provide architectural guidance to customers and the configuration team as they build new products.
• Guide enterprise application architectural design for client applications built on Unqork's drag-and-drop platform and serve as the technical architect for new client projects.
• Provide guidance and assist the configuration team in technical integrations.
• Work with the engineering team to provide insight into how the platform can be improved to better serve customers.
• Partner with teams across the organization to ensure Unqork applications are built with sound architectural design principles.

Professional Experience

• 8+ years of experience building applications in JavaScript.
• Experience consulting clients including designing specifications, prototyping, and managing POCs; experience architecting web applications at enterprise scale.
• Proficient working knowledge of REST APIs and other web services; relational or non-relational database query experience.
• Modern front-end framework experience such as React or Angular.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across multiple teams and organizational functions.

Reporting to Digital Partnerships Technology leadership, the Senior Solutions Architect, Digital Partnerships refines technical solutions and architecture for BigTech, Strategic Enablers, and FinTech partners through logical architectures, sequence diagrams, and API swagger specs that unlock new use cases and enable existing Visa capabilities. Working across Visa's core product and technology teams, the Senior Solutions Architect, Digital Partnerships co-innovates with partners to build new product propositions and ensures partner implementations are on track and delivering against plan.

Strategic Initiatives

• Define technical solutions and architecture to unlock new use cases or enable existing capabilities for BigTech, Strategic Enablers, and FinTech partners through logical architectures, deployment topologies, sequence diagrams, functional decompositions, and API swagger specs.
• Build architectures that are inherently secure, robust, scalable, reliable, extensible, interoperable, and composable.
• Ensure project teams follow common principles and patterns and utilize approved technology frameworks, libraries, and API standards.
• Apply architecture best practices to increase execution velocity by leveraging existing Visa shared assets.
• This is a hybrid position; employees are expected to work from the office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with a general guidepost of 50% in-office time based on business needs.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
• Extensive experience working with ecommerce partners, FinTech, BigTech, and payments technology companies; financial services or payments industry experience preferred.
• Demonstrated track record of planning, managing, and delivering complex technology programs with BigTech, Strategic Enablers, and FinTechs.
• Blend of analytical capability, strategic thinking, and emotional intelligence; able to dive deep on technology and business to deliver creative solutions to unstructured problems.
• Process-oriented with high attention to detail; hands-on, entrepreneurial, and agile, while able to navigate a globally matrixed environment.
• Proven ability to partner, communicate, and manage across multiple disciplines and organizational groups; experience working with Executive management.
• Excellent collaboration and presentation skills; ability to work within complex and ambiguous environments and influence senior management.