Solution Architect

Experience: 8+ years

Location: Makati - Hybrid (2 days onsite per week)

Job type: Permanent with MNC - direct hire

As a Solution Architect, you will:

· Translate business requirements, technical constraints, and enterprise standards into practical architecture options, solution designs, and implementation guidance.

· Lead architecture discussions and establish technical direction for strategic initiatives and complex business challenges.

· Evaluate technology options, identify tradeoffs, and recommend fit-for-purpose solutions.

· Design scalable, secure, resilient, cost-effective, and operationally sustainable solutions.

· Develop target-state architectures, transition strategies, and implementation of roadmaps.

· Identify risks, dependencies, technical debt, and operational impacts early in the delivery lifecycle.

· Facilitate solution discovery, architecture reviews, technical assessments, proof-of-concepts, and design workshops.

· Partner with engineering, operations, security, product, enterprise architecture, and business stakeholders to drive alignment and decision-making.

· Guide delivery teams through planning, design, implementation, and operational readiness to maintain alignment with approved architecture and expected outcomes.

· Communicate architecture decisions, recommendations, risks, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.

· Promote simplification, standardization, automation, reuse, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Required Skills:

· 8+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, automation, database engineering, or related technical disciplines.

· Experience designing, leading, or guiding enterprise technology solutions in complex environments.

· Experience working with or supporting production environments, with an understanding of operational supportability, resiliency, monitoring, incident management, lifecycle management, and operational readiness considerations.

· Experience translating business requirements into practical technical solutions.

· Demonstrated ability to lead technical discussions, influence decisions, document design rationale, and establish architecture direction across multiple teams.

· Experience evaluating alternatives, managing tradeoffs, and making sound architecture recommendations.

· Experience developing solution roadmaps, transition strategies, and implementation plans.

· Experience working across multiple technology, operational, and business domains.

· Experience working within Agile, SAFe, DevOps, or similar delivery environments.

· Solution architecture, systems thinking, technical analysis, and architecture documentation.

· Broad technical experience across cloud platforms, enterprise infrastructure, software engineering, automation, integrations, and operational technologies.

· Experience with engineering and delivery platforms such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins, or similar technologies.

· Experience with programming, scripting, or automation using C, Python, PowerShell, Go, or similar languages.

· Experience with REST APIs, systems integration, workflow automation, JSON, YAML, or equivalent technologies.

· Strong stakeholder communication, facilitation, technical storytelling, and executive-ready presentation skills.