Senior Solution Architect

Position Overview

Seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect to support enterprise clients in the Salt Lake City, Utah area. This position is ideal for a technology leader who combines strategic thinking with deep technical expertise to design secure, scalable, resilient, and cloud-native enterprise solutions.

This is a hands-on architecture role involving close collaboration with engineering teams to review technical designs, resolve complex architecture challenges, guide implementation, and ensure successful delivery.

The Senior Solution Architect will serve as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, business leaders, enterprise architects, product owners, and technical teams. The selected professional will help define technology roadmaps and modernize enterprise environments through cloud adoption, AI-enabled capabilities, microservices, event-driven architecture, API integration, and modern software engineering practices.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise application development, or technical leadership.
• Proven progression from Senior Software Engineer into Solution Architect, Technical Architect, or Enterprise Architecture responsibilities.
• Strong hands-on experience designing enterprise-scale, cloud-native, distributed applications.
• Expertise in Java, Python, or another modern object-oriented programming language.
• Strong cloud architecture experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience designing microservices, event-driven architectures, API-first solutions, and enterprise integration platforms.
• Strong experience with REST APIs, JSON, XML, enterprise messaging, and Apache Kafka or comparable event-streaming technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Git, GitHub, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or CloudFormation.
• Strong SQL, relational database, data modeling, and query-optimization experience.
• Experience with Linux environments and shell scripting.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, including collaboration with executives, business leaders, enterprise architects, product owners, and engineering teams.
• Ability to provide hands-on architecture guidance and support engineering teams throughout implementation.

Strategic Business Partnership

• Build trusted relationships with executive stakeholders, business leaders, product owners, architects, and engineering teams.
• Translate strategic business objectives into scalable and sustainable technology solutions.
• Participate in enterprise planning, technology strategy, and investment discussions.
• Support business-case development, technology assessments, Total Cost of Ownership analysis, and modernization initiatives.
• Advise leadership on technology selection, architecture decisions, innovation opportunities, and emerging industry trends.
• Support application portfolio modernization, lifecycle planning, and technology rationalization.

Solution Architecture and Technical Leadership

• Design secure, scalable, resilient, and cloud-native enterprise solutions supporting mission-critical business capabilities.
• Translate complex business and technical requirements into comprehensive solution architectures.
• Develop architecture blueprints, reference architectures, solution roadmaps, and integration strategies.
• Design modern distributed systems using:
• Cloud-native architecture
• Microservices
• Event-driven architecture
• API-first integration
• Enterprise messaging
• AI-enabled services
• Lead legacy application modernization and cloud-migration initiatives.
• Ensure solutions support scalability, security, maintainability, observability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
• Establish architecture principles, reusable design patterns, engineering standards, and technical best practices.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure architectural designs are implemented successfully.
• Review technical designs and resolve complex architecture and implementation challenges.

Enterprise Architecture and Governance

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment with long-term technology strategy.
• Participate in Architecture Review Boards and architecture-governance processes.
• Evaluate technical debt, technology risks, and modernization opportunities.
• Develop future-state technology roadmaps aligned with evolving business capabilities.
• Promote standardized, reusable, secure, and automated architecture approaches.
• Maintain architecture documentation, design standards, and governance throughout the Software Development Lifecycle.

Innovation and Engineering Excellence

• Promote the adoption of cloud-native engineering, automation, Generative AI, Agentic AI, and emerging technologies.
• Mentor architects, developers, and engineering teams on architecture principles and engineering excellence.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, innovation, and technical leadership.
• Stay current with cloud platforms, enterprise integration patterns, AI technologies, and software architecture practices.
• Improve engineering productivity through DevSecOps, automation, AI-assisted development, and platform modernization.

Required Technical Skills

Programming

• Java
• Python
• Modern object-oriented programming languages

Cloud Platforms

• Amazon Web Services
• Microsoft Azure
• Google Cloud Platform preferred

Architecture and Design

• Microservices architecture
• Event-driven architecture
• API-first design
• Enterprise integration patterns
• Domain-Driven Design
• Distributed systems
• Cloud-native architecture

Integration Technologies

• RESTful APIs
• JSON
• XML
• API-management platforms
• Enterprise messaging
• Apache Kafka or comparable event-streaming technologies

DevOps and Cloud Engineering

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD pipelines
• Git
• GitHub
• Azure DevOps
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or comparable tools

Data and Operating Systems

• SQL
• Relational databases
• Data modeling
• Query optimization
• Linux
• Shell scripting

AI and Emerging Technologies

• Generative AI
• Agentic AI
• AI-assisted software development
• Intelligent automation

Preferred Qualifications

• TOGAF or another enterprise architecture framework.
• Google Cloud Platform architecture experience.
• Cloud migration and application-modernization experience.
• API-management platforms such as Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft, or Azure API Management.
• Event-streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka or Azure Event Hubs.
• Data integration and analytics platforms.
• Security architecture, Identity and Access Management, and secure design practices.
• DevSecOps experience.
• Observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, or Datadog.
• Experience in financial services, government, healthcare, or another regulated industry.
• Experience working in Agile, Scrum, or SAFe delivery environments.
• Technical leadership experience across geographically distributed engineering teams.

Education

Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline. Equivalent professional experience may also be considered.