Solutions Architect

Professional Experience10 plus years of experience in application development, technical architecture, solution architecture, enterprise systems, or technology delivery roles.5 plus years of experience in application architecture, technical solution design, or enterprise wide solution architecture.Proven experience designing and delivering large scale enterprise application solutions across custom applications, SaaS platforms, cloud services, and packaged business systems.Strong experience translating business requirements into end-to-end technical designs covering applications, data flows, integrations, infrastructure, security, cloud, and operations.Experience working with Architecture Review Boards, enterprise architecture teams, and domain architects to review, govern, and align solution designs.Strong background in application modernization, platform consolidation, cloud adoption, technical debt reduction, and legacy system rationalization.Practical experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, including application hosting, deployment patterns, scalability, security, monitoring, and cost awareness.Experience working with integration teams on APIs, middleware, event based flows, data exchange, and system interaction patterns.Experience guiding engineering teams on application design, technical patterns, DevOps practices, CI/CD, automation, testing, deployment, and production readiness.Retail, ecommerce, hospitality, supply chain, or enterprise business systems experience strongly preferred.Technical SkillsApplication Architecture: Enterprise applications, custom platforms, SaaS solutions, packaged systems, modular design, service design, API first architecture, scalability, maintainability, and supportability.Solution Design: End to end technical design, solution options, architecture tradeoffs, risk assessment, cost versus benefit analysis, transition architecture, and implementation guidance.AI Enabled Architecture: Practical understanding of generative AI, machine learning enabled applications, AI APIs, intelligent search, automation, prompt enabled workflows, responsible AI, data privacy, model integration, and AI solution governance.Cloud Platforms: Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, hybrid cloud, application hosting, cloud services, deployment patterns, cloud security, scalability, resilience, and cost optimization.Integration Design: REST APIs, event driven architecture, middleware, messaging, file based integrations, data exchange patterns, and system interaction models in partnership with the integration architect.Infrastructure Design: Hosting, compute, storage, networking, load balancing, application gateways, backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and operational support considerations.Security by Design: IAM, SSO, MFA, role based access, encryption, secure APIs, data protection, vulnerability management, application security, privacy, and compliance alignment.DevOps and Automation: CI/CD, release management, environment strategy, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, automated testing, deployment automation, and infrastructure as code awareness.Observability and Operations: Monitoring, logging, alerting, performance management, incident readiness, production support, operational handover, and service reliability.Architecture Documentation: Solution architecture documents, application diagrams, system context diagrams, data flow diagrams, deployment views, technical design documents, and architecture decision records.Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate business requirements into technical architecture and long-term infrastructure strategyCommunication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiencesProblem Solving: Analytical mindset with the ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure and security challengesCollaboration: Strong team player with experience working across organizational boundaries and with external partnersInnovation: Forward-thinking approach to evaluating and adopting emerging technologies and methodologies