Senior Solution Architect

Description:

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end architecture of complex, scalable, secure, and maintainable systems, including solutions that use Redis or Valkey.
• Collaborate with product managers, business analysts, developers, infrastructure teams, security specialists, and stakeholders to translate business needs into effective technical solutions.
• Define target architectures, integration patterns, data flows, technology standards, and deployment models for cloud, containerized, and hybrid environments.
• Produce and maintain high-level and detailed architecture documentation, including diagrams, design decisions, technical specifications, and roadmaps.
• Evaluate technologies, platforms, frameworks, and vendor products through structured analysis, proof-of-concept work, and documented recommendations.
• Design for scalability, availability, resilience, performance, observability, disaster recovery, and operational supportability.
• Embed data protection, identity and access management, encryption, threat mitigation, and cybersecurity requirements into solution designs.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the software development life cycle, from discovery and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and support.
• Review application, integration, database, infrastructure, and security designs to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and architectural principles.
• Guide development teams on design patterns, coding practices, API design, database selection, caching strategies, and performance optimization.
• Identify architectural risks, constraints, dependencies, and technical debt, and develop practical mitigation or modernization plans.
• Partner with global teams to conduct design reviews, resolve technical issues, and ensure consistent, high-quality delivery.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in software architecture, solution architecture, systems design, or senior application development.
• Demonstrated experience designing medium- to large-scale applications in cloud, containerized, distributed, or hybrid environments.
• Strong understanding of architectural principles, design patterns, microservices, APIs, integration methods, event-driven systems, and distributed computing.
• Application development experience with Java, Python, or comparable modern programming languages and frameworks.
• Experience with relational database platforms such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or PostgreSQL, along with sound data-modeling knowledge.
• Experience with AWS services and cloud architecture; knowledge of Azure or Google Cloud is considered an asset.
• Familiarity with containers, orchestration, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and DevSecOps practices.
• Strong knowledge of secure architecture, privacy, identity and access management, encryption, vulnerability management, and cybersecurity best practices.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences and influence decisions across teams.
• Excellent analytical, critical-thinking, documentation, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Relevant architecture or cloud certification, such as TOGAF or an AWS certification, is considered an asset.