Solutions Architect

ROLE: Lead Solution Architect

LOB: Enterprise Transformation, Architecture Governance & Strategic Stakeholder Leadership

Contract: 12 months+ extension, 2+years

Compensation: T4: $68/HR-$71/HR | IC: $78/HR-$85/HR

Role Overview

We are seeking a strategic and hands-on Lead Solution Architect to lead end-to-end architecture across complex enterprise transformation initiatives. The role guides Solution Architects, defines future-state direction, governs solution quality, and ensures business objectives are translated into secure, scalable, resilient, compliant, and operationally sustainable solutions.

The role also provides Solution Architecture program leadership, partnering with Business, Product, Fraud, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Security, Operations, Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Delivery, and vendor stakeholders. It builds understanding of solution options, objectively communicates trade-offs, and secures buy-in for strategic solutions aligned with long-term organizational goals, including when stakeholders initially favor a more tactical solution or vendor.

Key Responsibilities

-Architecture Leadership & Strategy

• Own end-to-end Solution Architecture across assigned programs, domains, capabilities, and cross-workstream initiatives.
• Lead, coordinate, and mentor Solution Architects; establish consistent standards, patterns, practices, and quality expectations.
• Define business capability, current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures and practical modernization roadmaps.
• Translate business objectives into enterprise-grade solutions spanning application, integration, data, cloud, infrastructure, security, AI, and operations.
• Ensure designs address scalability, resiliency, performance, security, privacy, observability, maintainability, and operational stability.

-Strategic Stakeholder Alignment & Influence

-Architecture Governance & Quality

-Solution Evaluation, Modernization & Emerging Technology

-Delivery Enablement & Practice Leadership

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Formal architecture training or certification and 5+ years of applied architecture experience, typically supported by 10+ years of overall technology experience.
• Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, integration, testing, deployment, and operational stability for enterprise applications.
• Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages and deep expertise in one or more disciplines such as cloud, AI/ML, data, integration, mobile, or distributed systems.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale solutions for scalability, resiliency, security, performance, maintainability, auditability, and long-term sustainability.
• Proven architecture leadership across complex transformations involving multiple business units, technology teams, vendors, platforms, and control functions.
• Demonstrated ability to work with Business, Fraud, Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Security stakeholders; resolve competing priorities; and gain agreement on strategic solutions.
• Ability to evaluate tactical and strategic alternatives, communicate objective trade-offs, and influence future-state technology direction across teams, governance forums, and senior stakeholders.
• Experience applying enterprise-authorized AI in architecture or engineering workflows and integrating AI-enabled capabilities with appropriate validation, data protection, resiliency, governance, human oversight, and auditability.
• Strong judgment, independent problem-solving, negotiation, conflict resolution, executive communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience operating in complex, multi-stakeholder, highly regulated environments.