Solution Architect

Key Responsibilities :

• Strategic Architecture Leadership : Lead and oversee the company's architectural strategy, providing vision and direction for the evolution of the technology stack, ensuring that it aligns with the business strategy and industry best practices.
• Enterprise Architecture Governance : Establish and enforce architectural governance processes and frameworks, ensuring that all technology initiatives are aligned with enterprise-wide goals, security standards, and compliance requirements.
• Solution Design & Architecture : Direct the design and development of scalable, secure, and highly available solutions across a broad range of business needs. Ensure that designs are maintainable, robust, and cost-effective, and can scale to meet future demands.
• POC Validation & Technology Evaluation : Drive the creation and validation of Proofs of Concept (POCs) to assess new technologies, frameworks, and tools. Provide technical assessments and ensure that new solutions are viable for large-scale adoption.
• Cloud & Multi-Cloud Expertise : Architect solutions leveraging AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud platforms, ensuring cost optimization, high availability, and scalability. Oversee the management of cloud resources and infrastructure for both operational efficiency and security compliance.
• Security & Compliance Leadership : Lead efforts in defining and implementing enterprise-wide security architecture. Ensure systems are compliant with industry standards and regulations through regular security audits, vulnerability management, and the application of secure coding practices.
• Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) Ownership : Take responsibility for overseeing and managing the architecture to meet non-functional requirements like performance, scalability, availability, disaster recovery, and security at an enterprise scale.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Management : Collaborate with senior management, business leaders, product managers, and engineering teams to define technical strategies that align with business goals. Act as the key liaison between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders, translating complex technical decisions into business terms.
• Architecture Roadmap & Strategic Initiatives : Own and manage the long-term technology and architecture roadmap. Define strategic initiatives, prioritize key projects, and ensure alignment with business objectives. Drive transformation and innovation across the architecture landscape.
• Mentorship & Team Leadership : Foster a culture of innovation and excellence through mentoring and leadership of the architecture team. Promote collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and the adoption of best practices across engineering teams.
• Technical Debt Management : Identify, prioritize, and lead initiatives to reduce technical debt, ensuring the system architecture is sustainable, maintainable, and scalable for long-term growth.
• Performance Optimization & Scalability : Lead efforts to conduct load testing, performance analysis, and capacity planning to ensure that systems are optimized to handle increasing traffic and growth. Collaborate on improving system reliability and response times.
• Continuous Improvement & Innovation : Stay at the forefront of emerging trends in technology, architecture, and cloud platforms. Introduce innovations and improvements in system architecture to keep the company's offerings competitive and cutting-edge

(ref : hirist.tech)