Solutions Architect (CDP Architecture)

About the role

A hands-on Solutions Architect is sought to turn enterprise architecture policies and organisational standards into practical CDP architecture standards, templates, processes and reusable artefacts. You will give end-to-end architecture guidance and assurance to product teams and vendors, covering solutions from ideation and planning through design and delivery. The role requires broad expertise across application, integration, data, cloud, security and non-functional architecture.

Key responsibilities

• Translate enterprise architecture, security, cloud, integration, data and technology policies into clear CDP technical standards and guidelines.
• Develop and maintain architecture principles, reference architectures, approved patterns, templates, checklists, processes and quality-gate criteria.
• Create and maintain governance artefacts such as high-level and low-level design templates, review checklists, architecture decision records, risk registers, compliance assessments and approval workflows.
• Support product teams and vendors on solution design, technology selection, integration, data, security, cloud and non-functional requirements.
• Review high-level designs, low-level designs, integration designs and other technical artefacts, and evaluate them for security, scalability, integration, compliance and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Identify architecture risks, gaps, dependencies and compliance issues, and promote the reuse of shared services, components and design patterns.

Required profile

• 8+ years of relevant technology experience, including solution architecture responsibilities.
• Hands-on experience developing architecture standards, templates, processes, reference architectures and governance artefacts.
• Experience reviewing and guiding secure, scalable and integrated enterprise solutions.
• Strong technical documentation, stakeholder management and vendor management skills.
• Ability to identify architecture risks, dependencies and compliance gaps and propose remediation.
• Preferred: experience in government or large-enterprise environments.