Solutions Architect

About Certis Life at Certis Duties & Responsibilities As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible to review and guide end-to-end solution designs for project and business-as-usual initiatives across applications, infrastructure, integrations, data and cloud. The role ensures solutions align with business needs, enterprise architecture standards, approved technology direction, corporate policies, regulatory requirements and governance frameworks.

It supports architecture governance, assesses solution options, challenges vendor proposals and provides implementation assurance through transition to operations. The role is positioned in the EA & Data Platform team within the Group Technology Office (GTO) Operations Pillar, the role works closely with the AI Pillar (AIEO and ADG, including the Applied AI / FDE Team), GTO Infrastructure, Enterprise Platforms & Solutions, Digital Governance, and the CISO team.

Responsibilities

Review and guide end-to-end solution architectures for project and business-as-usual initiatives, covering applications, infrastructure, integrations, data, cloud, resilience, security and operational readiness. Guide integration architecture across enterprise platforms, including ERP, the Enterprise Data and AI Platform, robotics and operational technology.

Ensure solutions align with business needs, the Certis enterprise technology strategy, target architecture, approved cloud and platform direction and platform standardisation objectives. Assess SaaS, PaaS, cloud-hosted and hybrid application designs, including integrations, APIs, extensibility, cloud services, identity dependencies, vendor constraints, data requirements, security, resilience, and operational readiness.

Identify opportunities to improve performance, scalability, reliability, maintainability, compliance, and cost-effectiveness across existing and proposed solutions. Ensure solutions comply with enterprise standards, corporate policies, regulatory requirements and approved architecture direction; coordinate data, AI and cybersecurity reviews, and document risks, exceptions and remediation actions.

Review architecture diagrams, integration models, application views, and transition designs to ensure documentation is complete, accurate, and governance-ready. Develop and promote reusable solution patterns and reference architectures across common areas such as cloud, integration, APIs, data, identity, resilience, and application architecture.

Support requestors preparing for architecture governance 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.

Lead build-versus-buy, platform, product and vendor assessments based on business value, architectural fit, security, resilience, interoperability, maintainability, total cost of ownership and lock-in risk. Provide architecture assurance through detailed design, delivery and transition to operations, reviewing material design changes, technical debt and production-readiness against the approved architecture.

Work with engineering, platform, and operations teams to ensure solutions are production-ready, observable, resilient, supportable, and appropriately documented. Assess relevant emerging technologies and determine their applicability while balancing innovation and speed with enterprise-grade security, resilience, scalability, governance and maintainability.

Skills & Experience Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline. Minimum 6 years of relevant technology experience, including demonstrated responsibility for solution architecture, technical design or architecture assurance. Experience assessing how application, integration, data, hosting, resilience, security and operational support decisions affect solution feasibility, maintainability and cost-effectiveness.

Strong working knowledge of enterprise architecture, cloud and hybrid environments, SaaS and PaaS, integration and API patterns, data governance, cybersecurity, resilience, regulatory compliance and application lifecycle management. Experience reviewing design blueprints, supporting architecture governance forums, and maintaining enterprise architecture repositories; familiarity with SAP LeanIX and TOGAF or equivalent architecture frameworks and tools is advantageous.

Strong analytical, stakeholder management, collaboration, and communication skills across business and technology teams. Experience assessing build-versus-buy options, vendor solutions and total cost of ownership, with the ability to challenge system-integrator proposals and drive sound architecture decisions. Experience with ERP integration, operational technology, IoT, real-time platforms, enterprise data platforms or AI-enabled solutions is advantageous.

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