Senior Solution Architect

Role Overview

• Serve as the primary architecture authority within your delivery group, owning solution design decisions and ensuring architectural coherence across the group's application landscape
• Own the full solution lifecycle for your delivery group's applications: Translate business requirements into efficient and scalable solution designs
• Guide development and integration efforts, contributing hands-on when needed to validate architectural decisions or unblock teams
• Provide architectural expertise for root-cause analysis and resolution of complex production issues
• Lead the evolution of current business applications within your delivery group to optimize the underlying architecture
• Act as the escalation point for critical technical issues, driving resolution in collaboration with engineering and operations teams
• Develop deep domain expertise in the business areas your delivery group supports, and leverage that understanding to design technology solutions that directly address business needs and unlock new opportunities
• Establish and build strong relationships with business stakeholders across your delivery group's domain to drive their understanding of the solution architecture vision and roadmap
• Coordinate with developers, engineers, and cross-functional teams within your group to solve business problems
• Contribute to iterative planning, backlog prioritization, and delivery within Agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban)
• Evaluate emerging technologies, engineering practices, and vendor solutions for applicability within the delivery group's solution landscape, providing well-founded recommendations to leadership
• Guide junior colleagues within your group and validate their architectural designs
• Contribute to building up the architecture design capabilities across the wider Business Applications Platform, sharing knowledge, patterns, and lessons learned from your delivery group
• Contribute to the definition of best-in-class reference architectures and solution design standards that apply across the entire platform
• Promote consistency and reuse across delivery groups by advocating for shared design patterns, common components, and platform-wide best practices
• Collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams across the globe, fostering alignment and knowledge sharing across locations and time zones

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline
• At least 8 years of professional experience in solution architecture, software engineering, or a similar role
• Proven track record of leading architecture efforts end-to-end — from requirements analysis and solution design through to development guidance, deployment, and production support — with a willingness to contribute hands-on where needed to validate designs or unblock teams
• Hands-on experience with the development and integration of software solutions in enterprise environments, with the ability to prototype, validate, and guide engineering teams through implementation
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language; experience with Python and/or Java is ideal
• Understanding of relational databases and SQL; experience with modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) and how they fit into enterprise data architectures is a strong plus
• Experience designing and building APIs, including RESTful services and adherence to OpenAPI specifications, is a strong plus; familiarity with modern integration patterns, event-driven architectures
• Good understanding of how major cloud hyperscalers operate (AWS, Azure, GCP) and practical hands-on experience with at least one of them
• Experience with cloud cost optimization strategies — such as right-sizing, reserved capacity planning, resource tagging, and FinOps practices — to ensure solution designs are cost-efficient and sustainable at scale is a strong plus
• Solid understanding of security-by-design principles, secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices, and compliance-driven architecture; experience embedding operational resilience, data protection, and regulatory considerations into solution design from the outset
• Experience documenting and presenting solution architectures to both technical and non-technical audiences, including the ability to produce clear architectural artifacts such as design documents, diagrams, and decision records
• Proven experience leading small cross-functional teams and coordinating with developers and engineers to deliver business outcomes
• Comfortable working with geographically distributed teams across multiple time zones
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a drive to constantly improve the status quo
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Good to have Awareness of current AI-related trends and technologies, with an openness to evaluating and applying AI-assisted software engineering practices where they can improve solution quality and delivery efficiency
• Knowledge about emerging interface standards such as MCP (Model Context Protocol) and GraphQL
• Experience leveraging generative AI techniques to enhance the capability and intelligence of business applications — such as RAG, agentic AI workflows, advanced prompt engineering, and embedding-based search and knowledge retrieval systems
• Experience with incident management and root-cause analysis, with the ability to provide architectural guidance for the resolution of complex production issues in enterprise applications
• Experience with observability best practices for distributed systems — including structured logging, distributed tracing, and metrics collection using modern tooling (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
• Experience evaluating and recommending vendor solutions, SaaS platforms, and third-party technologies within an enterprise architecture context
• Experience working in or building solutions for financial services is highly desirable.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Google Cloud Platform
• Grafana
• GraphQL
• Java
• Prometheus
• Python
• SDLC
• SQL

Benefits

• A fast-paced entrepreneurial and international working environment in Manila with close collaboration to the different teams around the world
• Long-term career opportunity in a global, dynamic and client-oriented environment
• A young and driven team with an open-minded culture and great development possibilities
• Opportunity to learn the business from some of the world's leading private market specialists
• Competitive salary with performance-oriented compensation models