Senior Enterprise & Solution Architect

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Enterprise & Solution Architect

• Focus: Enterprise architecture governance + hands-on solution engineering

Description

Lead enterprise and solution architecture for cloud-native applications, defining standards, governance, and reference patterns while designing scalable, secure solutions on AWS. Build prototypes, REST APIs, microservices, and modern web UI components using Java, Spring, and JavaScript/TypeScript (React or Angular). Collaborate across business, architecture, engineering, security, and delivery teams to manage risks, exceptions, and compliance with enterprise standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop and continuously improve enterprise architecture standards, design patterns, reference architectures, and governance practices

• Support Architecture Review Boards and delivery teams with solution evaluations, risk identification, and standards compliance

• Manage architecture exceptions and drive remediation for deviations

• Translate requirements into target-state architectures, solution designs, technical roadmaps, and implementation guidelines

• Design resilient, secure, cloud-native solutions using AWS services

• Evaluate emerging technologies and AWS capabilities for enterprise adoption and standardization

• Provide technical guidance to stakeholders across engineering, security, compliance, and program teams

• Develop backend services, REST APIs, microservices, integrations, and data-access components

• Build prototypes and reference implementations to validate architectural decisions

• Develop and enhance modern web UI components using JavaScript/TypeScript and React or Angular

• Apply best practices: automated testing, source control, CI/CD, containerization, and cloud deployment

• Ensure performance, availability, security, scalability, observability, and cost optimization

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science/related field, or equivalent practical experience

• 10+ years of progressive IT experience across solution architecture, application architecture, and software engineering

• Enterprise/solution architecture experience in large organizations

• Experience with enterprise architecture governance, standards, design patterns, reference models, and technical reviews

• Hands-on full-stack development capability for prototypes and production-quality applications

• Backend experience with Java/Spring, REST APIs, microservices, and integration patterns

• Frontend experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML/CSS, React or Angular

• Strong AWS cloud architecture knowledge across compute, containers, networking, storage, databases, serverless, monitoring, and security

• Understanding of CI/CD, containerization, automated testing, and infrastructure automation

• Strong analytical, communication, documentation, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills

• Ability to communicate architectural concepts to engineers and senior leadership

Benefits

• Contract duration: 12 months

• Equal opportunity workplace; reasonable accommodations available

• Employment may be contingent on job-related pre-employment screening (e.g., background/reference checks and drug testing where permitted by law)