Azure System Solution Architect - Only W2

Role Summary

Responsible for designing scalable, secure, and resilient technology solutions that are in alignment with organization's business objectives and enterprise standards. Solution Architecture bridges strategic vision and technical execution, ensuring solutions support business growth, adaptability and foster innovation.

Solution architects collaborate closely with business, delivery, and technology teams to translate requirements into actionable designs overseeing these designs to implementation.

Solution architects also collaborate closely with other Enterprise architects to align on patterns and to ensure we are meeting infrastructure, security, data, and business architecture objectives.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Foster an environment of collaboration and partnership across teams to support and enable architecture design and solution delivery
• Educate and guide portfolio teams during trade-off and prioritization discussions
• Enable product and delivery teams with architectural artifacts to guide collaborations

Strategy Alignment

• Drive and align portfolio and solution technology roadmaps that supports strategic business goals
• Promote and reinforce adherence to architectural standards and governance processes
• Identify and prioritize tech debt and improvements, supporting system health

Solution Design

• Drive comprehensive solution architectures including evaluation of current , transitional and future states, data flows, system dependencies and integration designs while ensuring alignment with firm and Architecture strategies and roadmaps
• Collaborate across architecture teams to ensure key architecture trade-offs and decisions are documented and consensus is achieved
• Collaborate across cross-functional teams to ensure delivered solutions adhere to architecture guidance and principles

Scalable & Secure Solutions

• Architect systems that are scalable, reliable and secure
• Ensure solution Non-Functional Requirements are documented and re-evaluated as needed
• Ensure solution design incorporates IAM security patterns and data protection controls
• Evangelize security patterns and implement security best practices in solution designs
• Establish reusable scalable solution patterns, best practices, and runbooks.

Operational Excellence

• Design for production readiness, continuous improvement and tech currency reduction
• Champion HA, DR & Observability best practices
• Drive standardization and reusability across solutions
• Participate in Incident Response and Postmortems; Help solve complex engineering issues

Architecture Knowledge

• Champion innovation, emerging technology, process improvements and automation opportunities
• Lead and participate in knowledge sharing, upskilling and PoCs
• Create and maintain reference implementations of common solution patterns
• Maintain and evangelize reusable knowledge assets such as solution patterns & best practices