Solution Architect (Sales-Domain)
Reston, VA - USA
Job Summary
Scale Solution Sales-Domain Architect
Skills: Solution and Functional Architect (SAFA)
Experience Required: 10 & Above
Skills: Solution and Functional Architect (SAFA)
Experience Required: 10 & Above
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
- Bachelors degree in computer science/engineering/information systems or similar technical area
- At least 12 years of experience in IT covering at least three of the following areas: architecture requirements & design development testing application support.
- 4 years of MSO/Telecommunications experience with a good blend of functional and technical skills in enterprise BSS systems and Solutions architecture.
- Own and Evolve Domain Architecture
- Define and continuously evolve the end-to-end architecture for Sales and Marketing systems spanning applications services integrations and platforms.
- Establish architectural principles standards and reference patterns that enable consistent high-quality system design across teams.
- Collaborate with enterprise and solution architects to align domain decisions with broader architectural strategy.
- Apply Deep Functional & System Understanding
- Develop and maintain a strong understanding of the functional capabilities workflows and constraints of the end-to- technology ecosystem. end Sales and Marketing
- Leverage this knowledge to efficiently identify solution designs that meet business needs while minimizing unnecessary customization duplication or technical complexity.
- Help teams understand when to extend existing capabilities versus introducing new services or platforms.
- Design for Scale Reliability & Security
- Partner with engineering teams to design cloud-native distributed systems that support high-volume business-critical workflows.
- Promote API-first and event-driven architectures that enable loose coupling and faster delivery.
- Ensure solutions are designed with resiliency performance security and operational excellence in mind.
- Technical Strategy & Roadmapping
- Translate product and business strategies into coherent architectural direction and technology roadmaps.
- Evaluate new technologies and platforms through proof-of-concept and design exploration making pragmatic recommendations aligned to business value.
- Balance innovation with simplicity cost awareness and long-term maintainability.
- Influence Collaboration & Mentorship
- Serve as a trusted technical partner to product managers engineering leaders and business stakeholders.
- Collaborate with peer architects to make well-reasoned architectural decisions as a team.
Roles & Responsibilities
- This role plays a critical part in ensuring our Sales and Marketing platforms evolve in a deliberate scalable and business-aligned way. You will help teams move faster by reducing architectural ambiguity maximizing reuse of existing capabilities and ensuring solutions are thoughtfully designed from both a technical and functional perspective
- Significant experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems in complex enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise in cloud-native architecture microservices APIs and event-driven systems.
- Demonstrated ability to reason about architectural tradeoffs and align technical solutions to real business needs.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex system designs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience supporting Sales Marketing CRM or customer-facing platforms is a strong plus.