Solutions Architect

About Certis Life at Certis Duties & Responsibilities Role Summary The Solution Architect reviews and guides application and infrastructure designs for project and business-as-usual initiatives within GTO. Working across business and technology teams, the role ensures solutions are scalable, reliable, cost-effective, and compliant with enterprise architecture standards, corporate policies, regulatory requirements, platform standards, and the Data Governance Framework. The role also supports Combined Governance Group (CGG) reviews and maintains accurate architecture records.

Responsibilities

• Review and guide end-to-end solution architectures for project and business-as-usual initiatives, covering applications, infrastructure, integrations, data flows, hosting, resilience, observability, and operational support.
• Ensure solutions align with business needs, Certis’ AWS-centric technology direction, enterprise standards, platform standardisation objectives, corporate policies, and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Assess SaaS, PaaS, and AWS-hosted application designs, including integrations, extensibility, cloud services, identity dependencies, vendor constraints, and operational readiness.
• Identify opportunities to improve performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, compliance, and cost-effectiveness across existing and proposed solutions.
• Coordinate with the Data and CISO teams on data governance and cybersecurity reviews, and document non-compliance, risks, exceptions, and remediation actions.
• Review architecture diagrams, integration models, application views, and transition designs to ensure documentation is complete, accurate, and governance-ready.
• Support requestors preparing for CGG reviews by identifying design gaps and dependencies and clearly documenting decisions and required actions.
• Maintain approved application, interface, technology, ownership, and lifecycle information in the enterprise architecture repository.
• Communicate architecture options, decisions, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and support knowledge sharing on solution design standards.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5 years of relevant experience reviewing and guiding application and infrastructure designs for project and business-as-usual initiatives.
• Experience assessing solution architecture across applications, integrations, data flows, cloud hosting, resilience, security dependencies, operational support, and cost-effectiveness.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture, AWS, SaaS, PaaS, application lifecycle management, data governance, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience reviewing design blueprints, supporting architecture governance forums, and maintaining enterprise architecture repositories; familiarity with SAP LeanIX and TOGAF is advantageous.
• Strong analytical, stakeholder management, collaboration, and communication skills across business and technology teams.

Recognition & Reward