Solution Architect EWP

Job Purpose

The Solution Architect – Enterprise Platform is responsible for defining, designing, and governing the end-to-end architecture of enterprise applications and digital platforms.

The role ensures that enterprise platform architecture is scalable, secure, resilient, and future-ready while aligning with enterprise architecture standards, cybersecurity requirements, business objectives, and technology strategy.

Reporting to the Head of Technology & Information Security, the Solution Architect provides technical leadership across delivery teams, vendors, and architecture governance forums, shaping the long-term technology roadmap and ensuring consistent adoption of architectural best practices.

Key Performance Areas (KPAs)

Architecture & Solution Design

• Define end-to-end solution architecture and integration patterns for enterprise applications and supporting platforms.
• Produce High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), architecture diagrams, and technical specifications for new initiatives and major enhancements.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles, security frameworks, and technology standards.
• Evaluate and recommend technology platforms, vendor solutions, cloud services, and architectural approaches.
• Review solution designs to ensure scalability, maintainability, availability, and performance requirements are met.

Integration Architecture & Governance

• Design API, middleware, event-driven, and service-oriented integration patterns between enterprise applications and internal or third-party systems.
• Define and enforce standards for security, scalability, resilience, interoperability, and integration architecture.
• Guide the adoption of cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and microservices-based architecture where appropriate.
• Participate in or chair Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and provide governance throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure architecture decisions support long-term maintainability and technology standardization.

Delivery & Technical Leadership

• Participate in solution design reviews and provide architectural guidance throughout project delivery.
• Support development, infrastructure, and integration teams by promoting architecture best practices and design standards.
• Review non-functional requirements including availability, performance, security, scalability, disaster recovery, and resilience.
• Support deployment planning, production readiness assessments, and transition into operational support.
• Resolve complex technical issues and provide strategic guidance for technology decisions.

Technology Strategy

• Develop and maintain the enterprise application architecture roadmap.
• Promote technology standardization, solution reusability, and reduction of technical debt.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and conduct proof-of-concept initiatives to support innovation.
• Contribute to long-term technology planning and digital transformation initiatives.
• Ensure architecture supports business growth, operational efficiency, and future scalability.

Governance & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture standards, information security policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, risk, compliance, and governance teams to maintain secure solution architectures.
• Support architecture documentation, audits, and technical governance activities.
• Establish architecture principles, reference models, and reusable design patterns across the technology landscape.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Master’s degree is advantageous.

Experience

• 8–12 years of experience in Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Solution Architecture, or Enterprise Architecture.
• Minimum of 5 years designing and delivering enterprise-scale application architectures and complex system integration programmes.
• Proven experience developing cloud-native, distributed, and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience leading architecture governance, solution reviews, and enterprise technology transformation initiatives.
• Experience collaborating with cybersecurity, infrastructure, compliance, and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to guide cross-functional technical teams through complex architectural decisions.

Technical & Functional Skills

• Solution Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture
• Microservices Architecture
• API Architecture and Management
• Cloud Platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• Hybrid Cloud Architecture
• Integration Middleware (ESB, Message Brokers, API Gateways)
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Security Architecture
• Enterprise Integration Patterns
• UML, ArchiMate, and TOGAF Modelling
• Container Technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• DevSecOps Principles
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery Design
• Performance, Scalability, and Capacity Planning
• Enterprise Application Modernization

Preferred Certifications

• TOGAF Certification
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
• ITIL Foundation
• Kubernetes or Cloud-Native Certifications (advantageous)