Senior Solution Architect (Application)

We are looking for a Senior Solution Architect (Application) to join our team and take ownership of key areas within our technology and data platform. Owns the end-to-end technical design of the application: services, APIs, and how systems talk to each other. Guides engineering teams on design decisions and reviews what gets built.

Key Responsibilities

Own and deliver solutions within the scope of the role, from requirements and technical/design decisions through implementation and continuous improvement.

Work closely with engineering, product, data, design, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into practical, scalable solutions.

Apply strong engineering and/or domain expertise to build reliable, maintainable, and production-ready capabilities.

Contribute to architecture, standards, documentation, quality, and technical decision-making appropriate to the role.

Identify performance, scalability, data quality, usability, reliability, or operational risks and address them proactively.

Collaborate across teams to ensure solutions integrate effectively with existing systems and platform components.

Requirements

Required Qualifications & Experience

7+ years of relevant professional experience.

Strong hands-on experience with: Solution architecture, Java, Spring Boot, REST API design, microservices, system integration, Docker, Kubernetes.

Real ownership of solution or application architecture, not senior development alone.

Strong hands on background across backend and frontend.

Designing APIs and integrations across multiple systems.

Self managed infrastructure rather than managed cloud services.

Keeps architecture documented clearly enough for a new engineer to follow.

Preferred Qualifications

Event driven architecture with Kafka.

Experience in a product company rather than project delivery only.

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