Sr. Solutions Architect

Join a high-impact solution architecture team where you’ll help shape technology direction across enterprise platforms, systems, integrations, and data. This role is ideal for an experienced architect who enjoys leading from discovery through delivery, collaborating across teams, and turning complex business needs into scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture efforts from early discovery through implementation, helping define technical direction and align teams on the best approach.
• Design architecture across systems, integrations, data flows, security, scalability, reliability, and supportability.
• Establish and communicate architectural standards, reference patterns, guiding principles, and technical roadmaps.
• Provide governance and architectural oversight throughout the delivery lifecycle to keep solutions aligned with approved direction.
• Create and maintain architecture artifacts such as system context diagrams, integration designs, data flow diagrams, and decision records.
• Evaluate options through prototypes or proof-of-concepts when needed to validate feasibility and reduce delivery risk.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to resolve dependencies, address technical issues, and support informed decision-making.
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt, and trade-offs, and help recommend practical mitigation strategies.
• Define non-functional requirements related to security, performance, recoverability, maintainability, and operational support.
• Mentor engineers and architects, support knowledge sharing, and contribute to continuous improvement in architecture practices.
• Participate in peer reviews and root-cause analysis efforts, offering long-term solutions to complex technical challenges.

Skills

• 7+ years of progressive experience in technology, with a focus on software development, systems integration, or solution delivery.
• 5+ years of experience in business analysis and systems design.
• 3+ years of experience leading solution architecture initiatives across cross-functional teams.
• Strong background in solution architecture across systems, integrations, data domains, security, and operational support.
• Experience designing enterprise platforms using sound architecture frameworks, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Knowledge of APIs, integration patterns, data flows, and cross-system interactions.
• Solid software development experience and familiarity with multiple programming languages, frameworks, and engineering practices.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to influence without direct authority, build alignment, and guide teams through ambiguity.
• Strong decision-making skills with the ability to weigh risk, cost, complexity, feasibility, and long-term maintainability.
• Experience defining and evolving architecture standards, governance processes, and best practices.
• Ability to connect technical decisions to business, product, data, security, and user experience needs.

Preferred Skills

• Bachelor’s degree preferred; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Experience developing prototypes or proofs of concept to validate architecture approaches.
• Experience mentoring technical teams and supporting architecture knowledge transfer.
• Comfort working in fast-paced environments with multiple priorities and shifting needs.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple initiatives at once.
• Ongoing interest in learning new technologies, architecture practices, and industry trends.
• Experience supporting technical governance, peer review, and architecture documentation practices.
• Familiarity with business processes and using that context to inform architectural decisions.

Horizontal is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone feels welcomed, respected, and empowered to contribute. We value diverse perspectives, equitable opportunities, and inclusive collaboration as core parts of how we work.

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