Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enforce architecture standards, guidelines, patterns, and best practices
• Design and deliver end-to-end solution architectures based on requirements from product owners and business stakeholders
• Analyze business and technical requirements and translate them into scalable, secure, and resilient architecture solutions
• Design architectures for web applications, mobile applications, microservices, APIs, and their associated technology ecosystems
• Ensure application designs follow established engineering best practices, architectural patterns, user journeys, and UX requirements
• Design solutions that balance user experience, business requirements, performance, scalability, reliability, resiliency, availability, and security
• Develop end-to-end design patterns and reusable architecture blueprints/reference architectures
• Design and oversee integration of applications with surrounding enterprise ecosystems, including mobile applications, microservices, APIs, event streams, message brokers, containers, and cloud-native technologies
• Collaborate with Information Security teams to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of enterprise data and technology assets
• Ensure solution designs comply with applicable security standards, architecture principles, internal policies, and regulatory requirements
• Contribute to building reliable, resilient, secure, and scalable platforms
• Deliver complete and self-sufficient architecture solutions and design documents within agreed timelines
• Identify opportunities to improve architecture and solution design workflows through automation and process optimization
• Conduct architecture peer reviews and ensure proposed solutions align with established standards and reference architectures
• Deliver architecture education and knowledge-sharing workshops to architects and technology teams
• Coach and mentor associate and junior architects
• Work autonomously on complex architecture decisions while seeking alignment from relevant stakeholders where required
• Continuously develop technical and professional capabilities, with a particular focus on Security Architecture
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Required Technical & Architecture Skills

Solution & Application Architecture

• Strong overall knowledge of software engineering and solution architecture
• Minimum 5+ years of experience designing applications, including web and mobile applications
• Minimum 5+ years of experience designing microservices and APIs
• Deep understanding of modern architectural patterns including:
  • Microservices
  • API architecture
  • Application architecture
  • Mobile application architecture
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Distributed systems
• Experience designing complete end-to-end solutions across complex enterprise ecosystems
• Strong understanding of application integration patterns and enterprise technology ecosystems

Cloud & Cloud-Native Architecture

• Minimum 5+ years of experience working with cloud-native technologies
• Strong hands-on architectural understanding of:
  • Containers
  • Kubernetes
  • OpenShift
  • Service Mesh
  • Virtualization
• Experience with cloud platforms such as:
  • OpenShift
  • Microsoft Azure
  • AWS
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Ability to design secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available cloud-native solutions

Security Architecture

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in Cyber Security / Information Security
• Strong understanding of Security Architecture principles
• Deep understanding of:
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Encryption
  • Logging & Monitoring
  • Application Security
  • OWASP Top 10
  • Infrastructure Security
  • Cloud Security
  • Security regulations and compliance
• Experience collaborating with Information Security teams to embed security into solution architecture and application design
• Ability to balance security requirements with business functionality, customer experience, performance, and delivery objectives
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