Lead Solutions Architect

The purpose of this role is to create solution architectures for systems and platforms ensuring all relevant options are explored for time, cost and compliance to the company’s standards, policies and practices whilst meeting the business’ requirements. The role will oversee the work of other architects and delivery of the solution for clients both internal and external, shepherding it through the relevant governance.

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and frameworks for clients in a variety of commerce applications.

• Design end-to-end architecture solutions for complex systems across multiple domains (applications, data, infrastructure).

• Support pre-sales activities and contribute to proposals and technical presentations if in a client-facing environment.

• Provide guidance to development and engineering teams throughout the project lifecycle.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment of architectural strategies with business goals.

• Design and present technical solution including all relevant data flows, transformations, and integrations.

• Develop and maintain architectural documentation including diagrams, roadmaps, and reference models.

• Analyze business requirements and technical environments to define technical solution options.

• Analyze customer use cases, available data to prepare for automated & ongoing data ingestion to meet customer requirements.

• Ensure solutions adhere to enterprise standards, security policies, and compliance requirements.

Solution Design and Architecture:

• Develop and maintain comprehensive architectural blueprints, including system landscapes, data models, integration strategies, and deployment plans.

• Define and document technical standards, guidelines, and best practices for solution development.

• Evaluate and recommend technology platforms, frameworks, and tools based on business requirements, cost-effectiveness, and scalability.

• Design solutions that are aligned with security, performance, reliability, and maintainability requirements.

• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, providing architectural guidance and support to engineering teams.

Stakeholder Collaboration:

• Work closely with our clients to understand the business needs and translate them into technical requirements.

• Communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Facilitate discussions and workshops to gather requirements and explore potential solutions.

• Build strong relationships with client stakeholders and the client side technology team to build trust and confidence in our solutions.

Technical Leadership:

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams throughout the project lifecycle.

• Review and approve technical designs and code to ensure adherence to architectural standards.   

• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, and evaluate their potential impact on our solutions.

• Identify and mitigate technical risks and challenges.

• Drive innovation by exploring new technologies and architectural approaches.

Documentation and Governance:

• Create and maintain clear and concise architectural documentation.

• Participate in architectural governance processes to ensure consistency and compliance.

• Contribute to the development of architectural standards and patterns.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering solutions on commerce platforms

• Experience designing and delivering Micro-Services based solutions using frameworks like on cloud platforms like Azure/GCP/AWS

• Experience integrating with 3rd party systems like ERP, OMS, Payment gateways, Tax systems, Marketplaces, Product Configurators, DAM, CMS, Composable Storefronts, etc.

• Exposure to languages and technologies like NodeJS, React, CSS, HTML, Groovy, TypeScript, javascript, PHP etc…

• Exposure to Relational database concepts, with intermediate proficiency in SQL

• Experience working in an agency or consulting company across multiple industries.

• Experience collaborating on complex deals and leading large teams across multiple time zones (on-shore/near-shore/off-shore)

• Personal technical credibility, through direct experience leading and inspiring teams (directly or indirectly) on technologies a