Solution Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders and users to understand and refine business and technical requirements.
• Work with Product Owners to prioritize needs and ensure alignment of the solution with business goals.
• Design and develop end-to-end solutions, including data, application, and infrastructure components, focusing on scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Ensure adherence to security, compliance, and data governance standards in all solution designs.
• Lead the technical direction, managing the delivery, quality, and timelines of solutions from design to production.
• Coordinate with other teams to ensure alignment of dependencies and effective integration with other systems or platforms.
• Oversee the release of solutions to production, ensuring operational excellence and addressing any post-release issues.
• Define and review team capacity, forecast future requirements, and ensure adequate resource allocation to meet project timelines.

Requirements

• Proven experience in solution architecture, designing and delivering scalable end-to-end solutions across multiple domains (e.g., data, application, infrastructure).
• Minimum 5 years of experience in software engineering.
• Hands-on experience with various technologies, platforms, and frameworks, with the ability to adapt solutions to the specific needs of a project.
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, and governance requirements across different industries and systems.
• Experience in managing full project lifecycles from solution design to implementation, release, and support.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to handle complex challenges and adapt to evolving business requirements.
• Experience working with stakeholders, product owners, and technical teams to deliver business-aligned solutions.
• Broad technical expertise with a deep understanding of data platforms, pipelines, and associated technologies.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions that deliver value.
• Proficient in designing data architectures, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance.
• Leadership qualities to guide a team in the successful implementation of technical solutions.
• Strategic thinking to manage dependencies and forecast project capacity.
• Have an understanding of, or experience with, Agile methodologies.
• Excellent spoken and written English.

Desired Competencies

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Deep technical expertise across various domains, with a strong grasp of software design, data architecture, infrastructure, and application integration.
• A strategic mindset is needed to foresee challenges, manage dependencies, and allocate resources efficiently.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, preferably Azure, and experience with cloud-native architecture and technologies.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as C#, Python, TypeScript, SQL.
• Experience with Databricks/Snowflake.

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