Solutions Architect

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.