Sr. Solutions Architect

The solutions architect proactively and holistically lead and supports domain-level activities that guide developing and managing a portfolio of solutions. Solutions include projects, systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information), and shared infrastructure and application services. Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders and IT development teams. Technology-neutral, motivated, and driven by achieving long-term business outcomes. Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams.

Understands business goals, objectives and outcomes, business capabilities, value streams, and business processes and their importance in solution architecture.

The solutions architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis, and design tasks related to supporting the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards.

Job Description

• Certifications in cloud computing, data architecture, and data analytics. You should be a Certified Solutions Architect, AI Data engineer, or Data Scientist from Azure, AWS, or Google. If not, you should get it within 3 months of joining.
• End-to-end data architectures leverage cloud services for storage, processing, analysis, and visualization. Consider integrating with on-premises systems and multi-cloud scenarios for hybrid data architectures and disaster recovery strategies. Understand the organization's data requirements, including volume, variety, velocity, and veracity.
• Design ingesting data from various sources, including databases, streaming platforms, IoT devices, and third-party APIs. Implement data integration pipelines using cloud-native services like AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, or Google Cloud Dataflow.
• Design data storage solutions using cloud-native data stores such as Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, and relational or NoSQL databases like Amazon RDS and Azure SQL Database. Implement data partitioning, indexing, and optimization techniques.
• Architect data processing pipelines for transforming, enriching, and analyzing data at scale. Cloud-native services like Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and serverless frameworks for data processing and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) workflows. Define solutions using cloud-based analytics platforms (e.g., Azure Synapse Analytics, AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery) and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau). Enable self-service analytics capabilities for end users.
• Define data governance policies and security controls to ensure data integrity, privacy, and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA). Implement encryption, access controls, and auditing mechanisms to protect sensitive data.
• Incorporate machine learning and AI capabilities into data solutions for predictive analytics, anomaly detection, recommendation systems, and other advanced use cases. Leverage cloud services like Azure Machine Learning for model training and deployment.
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions to track the performance, reliability, and cost of cloud data solutions. Continuously optimize resource utilization, automate scaling, and identify cost-saving opportunities. Position requirements

Understand & Translate Business Needs (30%)

• Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives.
• Works closely with the product owners and managers to ensure a robust architectural runway supporting future business requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Understands business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determines corresponding enterprise solution designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes.
• Example deliverables: requirements traceability document, business process/capability impact assessment, business process diagrams

Assess Technology (30%)

• Monitors the current-state solution portfolio to identify deficiencies through aging the technologies.
• Supports product managers in end-of-life product decisions to maintain, refresh, or retire services or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
• Understand emerging technology trends and disruptions and their practical application to enable new and evolving businesses and OMS.
• Analyzes the technology industry, competitors, and market trends and determines their potential implications for a given solution.
• Analyzes the business-IT environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt and recommends improvement solutions.
• Consults with application and infrastructure development projects and products to fit systems or infrastructure to architecture.

Apply Technology (25%)

• Leads evaluation, design, and analysis for implementing a solutions architecture across a group of specific business applications or technologies based on enterprise business strategy, business capabilities, value streams, business requirements, and enterprise standards.
• Manages and develops the architecture for a broader scope of projects or products and manages and designs architecture for a single project product or initiative.
• Develop a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise solution portfolio from current to future state, as defined by the solutions architecture.
• Acts as a consultant on various technologies, platforms, and vendor offerings to drive targeted business outcomes.
• Creates contextualized solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.
• Works closely with the program management office (PMO) or project management office to ensure that plans are executed according to promises throughout the project or product lifecycle.
• Example deliverables: Solution documentation, enterprise target state architecture, application/platform strategy

Provide Enterprise Guidance (15%)

• Provides deliverables like standard definitions, reference models, and architecture designs to support architectural governance and assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment on business and IT estate.
• Supports a community of practice (CoP), guiding and helping agile teams' product owners to align with the overall enterprise architecture governance and assurance.
• Designs and directs the governance activities to ensure the assurance and compliance of solutions architecture.
• Defines the principles, guidelines, standards, and solution patterns to ensure that solution decisions align with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
• Example deliverables: solution scorecard, enterprise reference architecture componentsQualifications
• Master's degree in business, information systems, related discipline, or equivalent and extensive related project experience in health care is preferred.
• Overall, 12 or more years relevant experience, a minimum of 8 years of experience in at least 5 IT solutions development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware or database management
• Minimum of 2 to 3 years in cloud implementations focusing on data & enterprise analytics or AI/ML
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments
• Good understanding of strategic and emerging technology trends and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models
• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
• Experience working in a relevant industry is helpful but not required
• Experience developing architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences
• Organizationally savvy, with the ability to navigate organizational politics
• Skilled at influencing, guiding, and facilitating decision-making with stakeholders and peers
• Ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to understand situations' long-term ("big picture") and short-term perspectives
• Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements
• Ability to propose and estimate the financial impact of solution architecture alternatives SKILLS
• Knowledge of various backend development languages like Java, ASP.Net, and Python
• Knowledge of various database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB, Microsoft, and Oracle
• Knowledge of various front-end web development languages like JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and web content sites.
• Knowledge of various aspects of technology architecture like cloud, integration, network, and security
• Knowledge of financial models and budgeting
• Understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps)
• Understanding and knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• Knowledge of different modeling languages (such as UML and ArchiMate)
• Understanding of IT standards and controls
• Excellent understanding of application development methodologies and infrastructure and network architecture
• Excellent analytical, planning, organizational, and technical skills