We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect to act as the technical bridge between client and market requirements and our Development & Integration delivery teams.
Positioned at the heart of execution, you ensure that proposed solutions are architected, built, and integrated effectively, safeguarding quality, consistency, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
You provide technical credibility throughout the sales cycle and translate customer needs and commercial commitments into realistic, sustainable solutions that our delivery teams can successfully implement.
Key Responsibilities
- Bid & Proposal Support: Lead technical responses to RFPs, RFIs, and tenders, including solution design, technical documentation, architecture diagrams, effort estimation, and risk identification. Ensure a clear and well-documented handover of won opportunities to the Development & Integration teams, preserving the technical intent and commitments made to the client.
- Solution Definition: Take ownership of the solution architecture from bid handover through delivery, ensuring that the solution delivered remains aligned with agreed client requirements.
- Feasibility & Estimation: Assess the technical feasibility of proposed solutions in collaboration with delivery teams, ensuring that scope, cost, timelines, and technical assumptions are realistic.
- Solution Architecture: Design end-to-end solution architectures across applications, integrations, data, and infrastructure that are technically sound, cost-effective, scalable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
- Integration Architecture: Design robust integration solutions using APIs, middleware, event-driven patterns, and data flows to connect client systems, internal platforms, and third-party services.
- Delivery Governance: Define and promote architecture standards, design patterns, and technical guardrails across development and integration projects.
- Technical Leadership: Guide development squads and integration teams on architecture decisions and facilitate design and architecture reviews throughout the project lifecycle.
- Risk & Quality: Identify technical risks early, recommend mitigation strategies, and safeguard non-functional requirements including performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.
- Vendor & Tooling: Contribute to the evaluation and selection of integration platforms, middleware, and development tooling in line with enterprise architecture standards.
- Cross-Project Consistency: Promote architectural consistency, reusable patterns, and knowledge sharing across multiple development and integration projects.
- Client Technical Relationship: Act as a trusted technical point of contact for clients during delivery, supporting discussions around architecture, scope, technical decisions, and change requests.