Enterprise Solutions Architect

Title: Enterprise Solutions Architect

Location: Houston TX

Terms: Contract

Job Description

Overview:
Seeking a senior Enterprise Solutions Architect with at least 15 years of experience to drive architecture, leadership, and hands-on development for multiple enterprise-grade applications.

This role combines MEAN stack expertise, active coding, and enterprise-wide solution governance with a strong focus on stakeholder influencing, alignment, and communication.

Role Specifics/Overview of Project

• Extensive experience as a hands-on Senior Software Architect or similar role, with Deep hands-on expertise in building, maintaining, and scaling applications using Node.js and MongoDB

Key Skills

• Enterprise architecture, stakeholder alignment, solution governance, cloud architecture, and exceptional communication and leadership

Responsibilities

• Define and govern architecture strategy and standards across a portfolio of enterprise applications, focusing on maintainable, secure, and scalable solutions using the MEAN stack.
• Actively code and prototype complex modules, directly contributing to key development efforts and system integration projects.
• Engage, influence, and align diverse business and technical stakeholders-including executives, product leaders, and technical teams-to ensure architectural decisions support organizational objectives.
• Translate ambiguous or competing business requirements into actionable technical roadmaps, negotiating trade-offs as needed to build consensus across stakeholder groups.
• Present and communicate complex architectural concepts and technical strategy clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.
• Champion best practices in solution design, security, DevOps, and cloud adoption throughout the application lifecycle.
• Mentor and coach architects and developers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and transparency.
• Facilitate architecture reviews, lead cross-team workshops, and mediate conflicting stakeholder viewpoints.
• Provide regular progress updates, risk assessments, and technology recommendations to business sponsors and leadership.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field.
• At least 15 years of progressive experience in software engineering and architecture roles, with proven leadership across enterprise-scale systems.
• Extensive, recent hands-on coding experience with full stack (MEAN) frameworks.
• Superior ability to influence, negotiate, and manage relationships with business and technical stakeholders to drive alignment and resolve conflict.
• Deep understanding of enterprise integration, API governance, security, performance, and cloud architecture.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills suitable for executive and cross-functional contexts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience facilitating architecture governance boards or steering committees.
• Advanced skills in consensus-building and organizational change leadership for digital transformation.
• Certifications in enterprise or solutions architecture (TOGAF, AWS/Azure Architect, etc.).