Lead Solution Architect (Public Sector)

Position Summary:

The Lead Solution Architect is responsible for end to end application and system architecture for government and public sector clients. The role leads a team of solution architects to understand complex business requirements and produce cost effective, compliant, and innovative solutions for large scale digital transformation projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead solution architecture for government tenders, owning overall technical strategy, target architecture, and solution integrity from pre‑sales through delivery.
• Analyse RFI/RFQ/RFP documents and government technical standards, map requirements to feasible solutions, and drive the creation of winning technical tender proposals.
• Design secure, scalable microservices architectures (API‑enabled, containerized, DevOps‑enabled) covering applications, integration, data, security, and infrastructure layers.
• Define and maintain reference architectures, reusable patterns and templates for microservices, API gateways and messaging services.
• Provide governance and technical leadership to a team of solution architects and technical leads; review and sign‑off solution designs, estimates, and risk registers.
• Collaborate with project managers, account managers, business analysts, security, operations and vendor partners to ensure solutions are deliverable within cost, schedule, risk and compliance constraints.
• Ensure architectures comply with government IT, Information security, data security, standards, industry regulatory requirements, as well as the implementation of security controls such as identity authentication, access control, encryption, and log auditing.
• Participate in customer workshops, steering committees and architecture review boards; Articulate the value, risks, and roadmap of the solution to senior business and technical leaders.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related discipline.
• 15+ years overall IT experience, including at least 8 years as a Solution Architect and 5+ years in a lead/manager role.
• Solid experience in government or public‑sector tenders, including leading technical responses, solution costing, and presentations for medium‑to‑large projects.
• Hands‑on architecture and implementation experience with microservices (e.g. Spring Cloud, .NET microservices, service mesh, API gateway, containers/Kubernetes, CI/CD).​

Key Skills and Competencies:

• Architecture leadership: Ability to define target state architectures and roadmaps across applications, data, integration and infrastructure.
• Government tender expertise: Skilled in interpreting tender specifications, marking scores criteria, building a technical compliance matrix, optimizing architectural costs, and endorsing the solution during clarification meetings/demonstrations.
• Analytical & problem‑solving: Able to assess the difficulty of legacy system transformation, performance and capacity requirements, and migration risks, and propose a phased, reversible migration and evolution plan.
• Stakeholder communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills in Chinese and English
• Team management: Experience leading and mentoring multi‑disciplinary teams of architects