Principal Solution Architect
About the role
Principal Solution Architect
Aker Systems was founded in 2017 by a team of experienced technology professionals who recognised an opportunity to provide highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organisations. We build and operate ground-breaking, ultra-secure, high performance, cloud-based data infrastructure for the enterprise.
We are looking for a Principal Solutions Architect to help shape and deliver secure cloud, data and digital solutions across our client and product delivery work.
You will play a key role in shaping solution designs across cloud, data, security, service and application areas. You will be involved from early discovery and options analysis through to high-level and low-level design, assurance, governance and delivery oversight.
This is a client-facing architecture role.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Leading the development of high-level and detailed solution designs across cloud, data, security, service and application domains
- Helping clients explore options, understand trade-offs and make informed architecture decisions
- Working within client constraints while still helping them see what’s possible with modern cloud, data and platform engineering
- Keeping the overall solution design on track from discovery through to delivery
- Reviewing technical deliverables against approved designs and spotting where things are starting to drift
- Supporting technical change requests, impact assessments and architecture governance
- Making sure solutions line up with non-functional requirements, design principles, patterns and security standards
- Maintaining current-state and target-state architecture views, including technology stacks, integrations and design decisions
- Identifying reusable design patterns and product improvements that can feed into Aker’s core product set
- Working closely with DevOps, platform engineering, data engineering and application development teams
Core Competencies
- Strong experience in designing and delivering enterprise scale platforms