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**Job title**
Solution Architect
**Role Summary**
Lead end‑to‑end architecture and design of technology solutions, ensuring business alignment, governance compliance, and scalability across cloud, SaaS, and on‑premises environments. Serve as a technical authority, driving solution vision, risk management, and innovation while collaborating with business, product, and delivery teams.
**Expectations**
- Own solution architecture from concept to deployment.
- Apply enterprise standards, enforce NFRs, and embed security, observability, and DevOps readiness.
- Quantify technical feasibility, risks, and cost estimates to enable informed Go/No‑Go decisions.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Design business, component, deployment, security, service, and migration models.
- Create architecture blueprints, standards, and enforce compliance.
- Define integration patterns (APIs, event‑driven, microservices, SOA) and oversee API lifecycle.
- Partner with data architecture to choose storage patterns (cloud, lake, warehouse, lakehouse).
- Drive NFRs: high‑availability, scalability, resilience, and observability.
- Conduct capability analysis and business case validation with stakeholders.
- Facilitate ideation, solution options, and cost/effort estimation.
- Design IAM, data protection, lifecycle management, and network security per Zero Trust.
- Lead PoC, prototype, and third‑party product evaluations.
- Participate in Design Authority, roadmap planning, and technical governance.
- Maintain architecture documentation and knowledge repositories.
**Required Skills**
- Enterprise architecture and design (TOGAF, Zachman, etc.).
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and PaaS/SaaS integration.
- API design (OpenAPI/Swagger), versioning, security, and lifecycle management.
- Data architecture: cloud storage, data lakes, warehouses, lakehouses, analytics, AI/ML.
- Security frameworks: Zero Trust, IAM (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML), encryption, network segmentation.
- Non‑functional requirements: performance, scalability, resiliency, observability.
- Strong analytical, estimation, and stakeholder communication skills.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Professional certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Enterprise Architect, Certified Information Systems Security Professional) preferred.