As a solution architect, you have the ability to grasp the complexity associated with modern platform solutions, and break it down into simpler, understandable bits towards both engineers as well as business stakeholders.You're able to facilitate the architectural processes, identifying desired qualities and constraints, ensuring risks and trade-offs are discussed within the team(s) and guiding business stakeholders to take informed decisions.
Responsibilities:
- It's your responsibility to ensure that the architecture of the products you're assigned to is sound, well-understood and continues to evolve in a direction that best support the business case and follows the existing guardrails.
- To a great extent, that means facilitating the architectural debate, ensuring the architectural decisions are made consciously and its trade-offs (or derived risks) are well understood, both internally (towards the involved teams) as externally (towards our client's stakeholders).
- You're a key partner that works between enterprise / domain architecture and the solution designers / tech leads.
- You ensure that the solution that is approved by the board is correctly implemented by validating the solution design and following up its implementation.
- You also ensure knowledge is shared across your colleagues.
- You evaluate project constrains to find alternatives, alleviate risks, and perform re-engineering if required
- You update stakeholders about any issues connected to the architecture
