Solution Architect

Role Overview
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field. 
• At least 12+ years of IT experience across architecture, requirements & design, development, testing, or application support. 
• 4+ years of MSO/Telecommunications experience with strong functional and technical knowledge in enterprise BSS systems and solutions architecture. 
• Significant experience designing and evolving large scale, distributed systems in complex enterprise environments. 
• Strong expertise in cloud native architecture, microservices, APIs, and event driven systems. 
• Demonstrated ability to reason about architectural tradeoffs and align technical solutions with business needs. 
• Strong understanding of functional capabilities, workflows, and system constraints within Sales and Marketing technology ecosystems. 
• Ability to define and evolve end to end architecture for Sales and Marketing systems, including applications, services, integrations, and platforms. 
• Ability to establish architectural principles, standards, and reference patterns for consistent system design. 
• Experience collaborating with enterprise and solution architects to ensure alignment with overall architectural strategy. 
• Ability to identify efficient solution designs that minimize unnecessary customization, duplication, or complexity. 
• Skilled at helping teams evaluate when to extend existing capabilities vs. introducing new platforms or services. 
• Experience designing for scale, reliability, performance, resiliency, operational excellence, and security. 
• Strong support for API first and event driven architectural approaches. 
• Ability to translate business and product strategies into actionable architecture direction and technology roadmaps. 
• Experience evaluating emerging technologies through POCs and design assessments with pragmatic, value driven recommendations. 
• Ability to balance innovation with simplicity, cost efficiency, and long term maintainability. 
• Serves as a trusted technical partner to product managers, engineering leaders, and business stakeholders. 
• Strong collaboration skills, working effectively with peer architects to drive well reasoned architectural decisions. 
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex system designs to both technical and non technical audiences. 
• Experience supporting Sales, Marketing, CRM, or customer-facing platforms is a strong plus. 
• Plays a key role in ensuring Sales and Marketing platforms evolve in a scalable, deliberate, and business aligned manner.