Solutions Architect  

General Responsibilities:

As Solutions Architect, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and implementing scalable and robust solutions to address business challenges. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will leverage your expertise to architect innovative solutions that align with project and technological requirements.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Requirements Definition and Management
  • Participates in proposal generation; i.e. review of the requirement, designing application features and architecture, coming up with the development estimates.
  • Translates the user requirements into a high-level application design, and coordinates these specifications with the relevant project stakeholders (e.g. Business Analysts when defining the product features).

• Solution Design and Architecture:
  • Provides technical solutions for the projects such as Application Architecture, Database Architecture, Infrastructure, Integration, and any other system analysis and design needed.
  • Architect end-to-end solutions with detailed designs encompassing system components, interfaces, and integrations to meet business needs, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and deliverability.

• Systems Design, Integration and Build:
  • Design system components and implement integration strategies for connecting disparate systems and applications using appropriate techniques and standards.
  • Defines software modules, and ensure seamless data flow and interoperability across the solution landscape

• Data Modeling and Database Design:
  • Applies standard data modeling and design techniques based on detailed requirements.
  • Develops relevant physical design elements and maintaining mechanisms for storing and accessing data.

• Documentation, Architecture Governance and Collaboration:
  • Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design documents, and implementation guidelines to ensure performance, resiliency, scalability and compliance with security and project requirements.
  • Conduct architecture reviews to mitigate risk and ensure adherence to approved technical solutions.
  • Review code, designs, and technical deliverables for alignment with architectural principles and quality standards.
  • Collaborate with project stakeholders to drive consensus on technical solutions.
  • Participates in training, design, documentation, and delivery efforts with the Project Manager.

• Technology Evaluation:
  • Research and evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and tools to recommend optimal solutions. Stay abreast of industry trends and best practices to drive innovation and continuous improvement.

• Other job-related activities that may be assigned from time to time.

Qualifications and Experience:

Education – Graduate with a Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering or any related course.

Related Work Experience – At least 5 years of working experience in Software Development, providing technical solutions such as system architecture, infrastructure design, and database structure.

• At least 2 years of experience in software engineer roles such as web and mobile application development.

Knowledge – In-depth experience, knowledge, and understanding of the following:

• OOP and software design
• Software development languages such as PHP, Java, Python, .NET
• Infra as a Code such as Terraform and Cloud Formation
• Web service integration
• Any integration protocols
• Public or social media APIs like google API and others
• Version control (e.g. SVN, GIT).
• Debugging and optimization skills
• Collaboration and documentation tools such as Confluence, Jira, Asana, or Trello
• Cloud Experience in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud is a plus.
• Frameworks such as TOGAF and Zachman is a plus

Skills:

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrates presentation skills with a high degree of comfort for diverse audiences.
• Must have sound problem resolution, judgment, analytical and decision-making.
• Possesses solid Stakeholder Relationship Management and the ability to collaborate with various teams to attain goals and pursue excellence.
• Demonstrates excellent Organizational, Time Management, and Attention to Detail Skills.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision and able to guide new team members.
• Must be adept to work in a fast-paced environment with tight SLAs.