Solution Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the technical owner and point of contact from pre-sales through delivery for enterprise client engagements.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, extensible, and secure solution architectures.
• Design and document high-level and low-level architectures using industry best practices and patterns.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple projects, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and delivery goals.
• Conduct architectural assessments, POCs for clients and internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product owners, delivery managers, engineers, and clients to ensure architectural integrity throughout the SDLC.
• Evaluate and select appropriate tools, frameworks, platforms, and third-party services.
• Review code, configurations, and deployments for technical consistency and risk mitigation.
• Define and enforce non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, security, resilience).
• Continuously explore new technologies, patterns, and tools to improve architecture effectiveness and team productivity.
  

🛠️ Required Skills & Experience

• 12+ years of hands-on software development and architecture experience, with at least 3+ years in a solution or enterprise architect role.
• Strong background in Java and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Data).
• Deep understanding of API design, integration patterns, message brokers (like Kafka, RabbitMQ), and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.).
• Proficiency in designing systems for high availability, scalability, performance, and security.
• Clear understanding of engineering and build processes and DevOps pipelines.
• Experience in enterprise software domains such as fraud detection, risk management, banking, or financial services is a major plus.
  

Soft Skills & Leadership Qualities

• Strong communication and presentation skills; capable of interfacing with C-level executives and developers alike.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across diverse teams.
• Proactive, self-starter mindset with a passion for solving complex problems.
• Experience working in agile and cross-functional teams.
  

🌟 Preferred/Bonus Skills

• Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect).
• Familiarity with ML/AI model integration and data pipelines.
• Exposure to fraud detection or financial compliance workflows.