Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

Solution Design & Delivery:

• Understand business strategy, priorities, and processes to design technology solutions that deliver business outcomes.
• Lead end-to-end solution design across multiple applications and services.
• Define conceptual and logical architectures, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and reliability.
• Provide hands-on architectural leadership throughout the SDLC (Discovery, Design, Build, Test, Go-Live).
• Perform design reviews, code reviews, testing guidance, and go-live support.
• Ensure compliance with governance, legislative, and risk requirements.

Architecture & Technology Leadership:

• Participate in selecting appropriate platforms, tech stacks, and frameworks.
• Contribute to enterprise architecture roadmaps, conceptual models, and frameworks.
• Identify opportunities for modernisation, optimisation, and innovation.
• Drive integration architecture across complex systems.

Business & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Build strong relationships with business and technical stakeholders.
• Provide technical thought leadership and influence strategic decision-making.
• Ensure continuous alignment between business needs and technology delivery.

Team Enablement:

• Mentor and coach developers and engineers.
• Share best practices and architectural standards.
• Support capability development within delivery teams.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Information Systems
• Certifications beneficial: TOGAF, AWS/Azure, platform-specific (ServiceNow, Salesforce)

Essential skills:

eCommerce Solution Architect:

• Experience across the full eCommerce value chain including front-end platforms, integrations, OMS, fulfilment, and PIM.
• Industry experience in Retail, Omnichannel, FMCG, or Wholesale.

Financial Services Solution Architect:

• Experience in account origination, account management, collections, telco and insurance processes.
• Understanding of financial systems integration and financial principles.
• Medium to high regulatory and compliance exposure.
• Experience in legacy-to-modern platform migration projects.

Desired skills:

Technology Environment (Preferred):

• eCommerce: Adobe Commerce, Oracle Order Management, Amplience, Oracle PIM, payment platforms.
• Financial Services: Core credit platforms and COTS financial systems.
• Cloud: SaaS / PaaS-first architecture.

Experience:

• 5 or more years’ experience in IT solutions development and 3-5 years’ experience in solutions architecture
• Advantageous skills: time & project management, experience developing models
• Proven experience as a Solution Architect.
• Strong domain expertise in either eCommerce or Financial Services.
• Strong experience in complex systems integration.
• Hands-on architecture and delivery involvement.
• End-to-end SDLC ownership.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to operate in a matrix organisational structure.
• High attention to detail, curiosity, and problem-solving mindset.