Senior Solution Application Architect - SaaS & ...

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

Created: 2026-03-10