Role: Senior Solution Application Architect - SaaS & Integration
Location: Plano Texas 75024
Duration: 6 months
Key Responsibilities
Architect and Design:
Partner with tech leads to design integration patterns for SaaS platforms internal systems and external partners.
Develop end to end solution proposals that cover functional design data flows security and operational requirements.
Create and maintain architecture diagrams interface catalogs and technical specifications.
Conduct Buy versus Build analysis that compares architecture fit cost factors implementation effort and long term maintainability.
SaaS and Platform Capabilities
Assess SaaS platform capabilities against business needs and integration requirements.
Map technical features of existing and proposed SaaS solutions to domain use cases.
Review vendor roadmaps and highlight risks or gaps relevant to compliance sensitive processes.
Provide architectural oversight for configuration customization and data extraction strategies.
Technical Leadership:
Demonstrated ability to work with enterprise architecture team and contributing to developing and realizing the target state.
Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams ensuring all organizational architecture standards patterns frameworks and industry best practices in architecture and design are followed.
Capable of performing occasional code reviews and providing guidance on coding best practices.
Be a thought leader on identifying and developing new standard patterns solution building blocks and best practices to enable efficient solution design and delivery.
Solution Level Architecture Support:
Maintain an end-to-end domain level architecture landscape views - logical security and deployment diagrams - current state and target state landscape views.
Develop and maintain OKR / Project level solution architecture and design - logical security and deployment arch views diagrams low level solution design ensuring compliance with NFR and other solution patterns.
Integration and Data Architecture
Define integration approaches using APIs event streams ETL pipelines and workflow automation.
Validate data models data quality requirements and retention standards for regulated domains.
Work with security partners to align designs with access control models audit needs and data privacy requirements.
Governance and Standards
Constructively challenge enterprise architecture recommendations when alternatives provide better outcomes for the business and the enterprise.
Align design proposals with engineering standards cloud patterns and operational practices.
Support architecture reviews risk assessments and technical approvals.
Collaboration and Delivery Support
Work with Scrum teams to guide architecture during refinement sprint planning and technical decisions.
Provide solution oversight through development testing and release planning.
Communicate architecture choices trade offs and impacts to business and technical stakeholders.
Documentation:
Create and maintain high-quality technical documentation that supports the development process including architecture decision records design specs system architecture diagrams and reusable patterns.
Solution Governance:
Presenting and obtaining approval on solution design from governance bodies.
Top 3 Preferred Skills:
8 years in software engineering 4 years in solution architecture for enterprise systems.
Proven record designing end to end solutions across SaaS custom apps and integrations.
Strong at translating business goals into target state and incremental roadmaps.
Hands on experience integrating SaaS platforms using REST webhooks GraphQL and event streaming (e.g. Kafka).
Familiarity with iPaaS/ESB (e.g. MuleSoft Boomi Informatica Azure Integration Services).
Experience with API management versioning throttling and monetization where applicable.
Depth in at least one major cloud (Azure AWS or GCP) including networking identity storage and managed services.
Identity and access management: SSO SAML OAuth 2.0 OIDC; RBAC/ABAC authorization patterns.
Compliance aware design for regulated data (e.g. SOX GDPR HIPAA depending on use case).
Governance participation: ADRs architecture reviews risk assessments threat modeling (e.g. STRIDE).
Education Requirements: Bachelors in Computer Science or other related field
Years of Experience: 10 -12 years
Role: Senior Solution Application Architect - SaaS & Integration Location: Plano Texas 75024 Duration: 6 months Key ResponsibilitiesArchitect and Design: Partner with tech leads to design integration patterns for SaaS platforms internal systems and external partners. Develop end to end solution pr...
Role: Senior Solution Application Architect - SaaS & Integration
Location: Plano Texas 75024
Duration: 6 months
Key Responsibilities
Architect and Design:
Partner with tech leads to design integration patterns for SaaS platforms internal systems and external partners.
Develop end to end solution proposals that cover functional design data flows security and operational requirements.
Create and maintain architecture diagrams interface catalogs and technical specifications.
Conduct Buy versus Build analysis that compares architecture fit cost factors implementation effort and long term maintainability.
SaaS and Platform Capabilities
Assess SaaS platform capabilities against business needs and integration requirements.
Map technical features of existing and proposed SaaS solutions to domain use cases.
Review vendor roadmaps and highlight risks or gaps relevant to compliance sensitive processes.
Provide architectural oversight for configuration customization and data extraction strategies.
Technical Leadership:
Demonstrated ability to work with enterprise architecture team and contributing to developing and realizing the target state.
Provide technical leadership and guidance to development teams ensuring all organizational architecture standards patterns frameworks and industry best practices in architecture and design are followed.
Capable of performing occasional code reviews and providing guidance on coding best practices.
Be a thought leader on identifying and developing new standard patterns solution building blocks and best practices to enable efficient solution design and delivery.
Solution Level Architecture Support:
Maintain an end-to-end domain level architecture landscape views - logical security and deployment diagrams - current state and target state landscape views.
Develop and maintain OKR / Project level solution architecture and design - logical security and deployment arch views diagrams low level solution design ensuring compliance with NFR and other solution patterns.
Integration and Data Architecture
Define integration approaches using APIs event streams ETL pipelines and workflow automation.
Validate data models data quality requirements and retention standards for regulated domains.
Work with security partners to align designs with access control models audit needs and data privacy requirements.
Governance and Standards
Constructively challenge enterprise architecture recommendations when alternatives provide better outcomes for the business and the enterprise.
Align design proposals with engineering standards cloud patterns and operational practices.
Support architecture reviews risk assessments and technical approvals.
Collaboration and Delivery Support
Work with Scrum teams to guide architecture during refinement sprint planning and technical decisions.
Provide solution oversight through development testing and release planning.
Communicate architecture choices trade offs and impacts to business and technical stakeholders.
Documentation:
Create and maintain high-quality technical documentation that supports the development process including architecture decision records design specs system architecture diagrams and reusable patterns.
Solution Governance:
Presenting and obtaining approval on solution design from governance bodies.
Top 3 Preferred Skills:
8 years in software engineering 4 years in solution architecture for enterprise systems.
Proven record designing end to end solutions across SaaS custom apps and integrations.
Strong at translating business goals into target state and incremental roadmaps.
Hands on experience integrating SaaS platforms using REST webhooks GraphQL and event streaming (e.g. Kafka).
Familiarity with iPaaS/ESB (e.g. MuleSoft Boomi Informatica Azure Integration Services).
Experience with API management versioning throttling and monetization where applicable.
Depth in at least one major cloud (Azure AWS or GCP) including networking identity storage and managed services.
Identity and access management: SSO SAML OAuth 2.0 OIDC; RBAC/ABAC authorization patterns.
Compliance aware design for regulated data (e.g. SOX GDPR HIPAA depending on use case).
Governance participation: ADRs architecture reviews risk assessments threat modeling (e.g. STRIDE).
Education Requirements: Bachelors in Computer Science or other related field
Years of Experience: 10 -12 years
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