Associate Senior Solutions Architect

Role Purpose: The Associate Senior Solutions Architect leads the execution of strategic business requirements by designing integrated, AI-ready technology solutions and guiding their implementation across software, data, and cloud infrastructure. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, this role synthesizes business, information, and technical perspectives to create scalable architectures aligned with enterprise principles. By evaluating functionality, constraints, and compatibility across platforms, it ensures interoperability, stability, usability, and high availability in distributed environments, enabling corporate application teams to deliver with greater velocity, quality, and efficiency. This role is central to the Corporate Application Delivery Optimization team, which optimizes corporate application development and developer productivity by mainstreaming modern development tools, application frameworks (including .NET, React, OutSystems, and Power Platform), cloud-native practices (Azure), DevOps, AI orchestration, and agile approaches to maximize velocity, quality, productivity, and efficiency. Advanced Leadership: Performs advanced-level research and analysis in modern software engineering practices, overseeing complex projects or architectural processes with limited supervision. Proposes robust technical solutions to moderately complex problems in cloud optimization, application modernization, and AI enablement. Negotiation Alignment: Seeks common ground and negotiates architectural design issues with internal and/or external clients to recommend for higher-level approval. Mentorship: Provides knowledge-based guidance, coaching, and training to engineering teams and more junior staff, serving as a key technical resource for other professionals. Practical Application: Requires practical application of professional knowledge at a broad-based level to complete difficult technical assignments. Key Responsibilities: Designs scalable, cloud-native architecture solutions that align with client needs, industry standards, and enterprise development goals. Develops and maintains documentation for architecture designs, integration patterns, and platform standards to facilitate knowledge sharing across the organization. Establishes architectural guardrails for both pro-code development and enterprise low-code/no-code platforms. Evaluates emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks, particularly AI integrations, agentic workflows, and developer productivity tools, to enhance solution performance and reliability. Produces and maintains high-quality architecture documentation, including design decisions, standards, and reusable patterns, to enable knowledge sharing and organizational consistency. Executes architectural reviews, ensuring adherence to DevSecOps best practices and organizational modernization goals. Helps monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for innovation that reduce operational friction. Partners with Agile teams to identify inconsistencies in architectural design and assist them with systemic enhancements. Supports the communication of the organization s solutions architecture vision to stakeholders to ensure alignment with business objectives and Program Increment (PI) planning. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to gather, analyze, and translate business requirements into highly performant product specifications. Actively supports Agile teams with the hands-on implementation of the architecture. Plus, other duties as assigned. Requires a Masters degree with 8 years of experience or a Bachelor s Degree with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Advanced degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field is preferred. Core Competencies: Proven Platform AI Expertise: Extensive, hands-on architectural experience designing and implementing solutions within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem and enterprise low-code/pro-code platforms, specifically OutSystems and Power Platform. Must demonstrate a strong track record of integrating modern AI solutions into corporate environments. Disclaimer: This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.