Solutions Architect

ResponsibilitiesTop 5 responsibilitiesSolution Architecture Leadership: Lead the development of architectures for complex solutions, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external and internal customers. Establish policy and strategy for the selection of solution architecture components, and coordinate design activities to ensure consistency. Ensure alignment across business, application, data, and technology architecture layers.Solution Delivery Excellence: Facilitate availability and optimum utilization of resources while ensuring projects are carried out in accordance with agreed architectures, standards, methods, and procedures. Lead systems design activities for strategic, large, and complex systems development programs.Consultancy & Client Engagement: Take responsibility for understanding client requirements, managing client relationships, and developing consultancy services across a wide range of topics. Engage with clients from initial proposal through solution delivery to disengagement. Act as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders, providing architecture assessments, roadmaps, and innovative technical recommendations.Knowledge Management & Sharing: Develop and champion organizational knowledge management approaches, processes, and supporting technologies. Organize knowledge assets and facilitate sharing, collaboration, and communication of knowledge across teams.Emerging Technology Leadership: Monitor the external environment to evaluate emerging technologies and their potential impacts, threats, and opportunities for our clients. Create technology roadmaps and share insights across the organization. Stay current on emerging technologies and lead internal knowledge-sharing and innovation initiatives.Additional ResponsibilitiesArchitecture & Standards Development:Take full responsibility for balancing functional, service quality, security, compliance, and systems management requirements within complex projects.Ensure appropriate standards (corporate, industry, national, and international) are adhered to.Within business change programs, manage target design, policies, and standards, working proactively to maintain a stable, viable architecture.Drive adoption of and adherence to relevant policies, standards, strategies, and architectures.Systems Design & Implementation:Lead the definition, implementation, and review of systems development management frameworks.Develop organizational policies, standards, and guidelines for systems design.Champion systems design principles and appropriate lifecycle models, whether predictive or adaptive.Develop effective implementation and procurement strategies consistent with requirements, architectures, and constraints.Evaluate the quality of others' systems designs to ensure adherence to standards and identify corrective actions when needed.Software Architecture & Design:Select, adopt, and adapt appropriate software design methods, tools, and techniques.Specify and design large or complex software components, conducting impact analysis on major design options.Develop organizational policies, standards, and guidelines for software design and architectures.Ensure that system designs balance functional, quality, security, and systems management requirements.Specify prototypes/simulations to enable informed decision-making.Security & Compliance:Ensure architectures include robust security, privacy, and compliance measures such as role-based access control (RBAC), row-level and column-level security (RLS/CLS), encryption, GDPR, PCI-DSS, and CCPA.Implement best practices for secure software development, including DevSecOps methodologies.Provide governance and oversight for security-related decisions, ensuring adherence to industry standards and best practices.Familiarity with modern authentication and authorization protocols (OAuth 2.0, OIDC) and secure API design principles.Client & Team Leadership:Manage the provision of consultancy services and/or management of a team of consultants.Provide organizational leadership and guidelines to promote specialist knowledge development.Actively mentor junior team members on functional/technical areas, helping them perform efficiently.Support Delivery Managers and Project Managers in forecasting staff, budget, and other resource needs.Take ownership of assigned tasks and deliverables, demonstrating leadership qualities.Business Development & Client Success:Drive or support business development, including sales calls and preparing technical responses with estimated scope, costs, and resources.Strategize with sales prospects and existing clients on innovative technology solutions.Actively search for opportunities to expand business within existing accounts.Ensure client satisfaction by understanding requirements and delivering value.Maintain a network of recognized experts who can deliver expert advice in relevant areas.Continuous Learning & Innovation:Stay on top of technology trends and developments (out of self-driven passion).Enhance skills on technology stack modules with at least 24 hours of training per year.Obtain relevant certifications and specializations.Explore and keep up to date with current trends relevant to the e-commerce domain.Contribute towards improving overall efficiencies of processes.