Solution Architect

Solution Architect Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• 15–20 years of overall IT experience, including substantial experience in solution or enterprise architecture.

• Strong knowledge of:

Enterprise application architecture

Distributed systems and microservices

Event-driven architecture

Cloud-native application design

High availability and disaster recovery

Scalability, performance, resilience, and fault tolerance

Ability to develop:

Solution architecture documents

High-level and low-level architecture diagrams

Integration and data-flow diagrams

Deployment architecture

Roles & Responsibilities

• Work with business and technology stakeholders to understand functional, non-functional, security, compliance, and operational requirements.

• Define end-to-end solution architecture aligned with enterprise standards and business objectives.

• Evaluate solution alternatives and document recommendations, trade-offs, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and constraints.

• Create architecture diagrams, integration designs, data flows, deployment models, and technology roadmaps.

• Define application, integration, infrastructure, data, security, and operational architecture.

• Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, performance, availability, resilience, maintainability, and security.

• Lead architecture and design review sessions with engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, and operations teams.

• Provide technical direction to development teams throughout design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.

• Review technical designs and implementation approaches for alignment with the approved architecture.

• Identify architecture risks and technical debt and recommend mitigation or remediation actions.

• Establish reusable patterns, technology standards, and engineering guidelines.

• Support effort estimation, implementation planning, dependency management, and release-readiness activities.

• Collaborate with cybersecurity and risk teams to incorporate required controls into the solution.

• Support proofs of concept and technology evaluations when required.

• Review vendor or third-party solutions for technical fit, security, integration, scalability, and operational supportability.

• Participate in production-readiness reviews and provide guidance for monitoring, incident management, capacity planning, and disaster recovery.

• Communicate architecture decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Mentor technical leads, developers, and other architects while promoting consistent engineering practices

Salary Range: $130,000 to $150,000 per year

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Job Function: TECHNOLOGY

Role: Solution Architect

Job Id: 433663

Desired Skills: Agile

Desired Candidate Profile Qualifications: BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE