Job Openings Senior Solutions Architect

About the job Senior Solutions Architect

Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture & Design

  • Lead end-to-end solution architecture for Telco transformation programs across BSS/OSS, CRM, charging, telco platforms, mediation, API/middleware, and digital platforms
  • Develop high-level and low-level solution designs, integration flows, interface specifications, and technology blueprints
  • Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, modular, API-first, and aligned with ADLs reusable architecture patterns
  • Validate vendor and partner solutions (Huawei, Whale Cloud, Amdocs, Ericsson, Hyperscalers)

Technical Leadership

  • Provide architectural leadership across multiple projects simultaneously
  • Advise Program Managers, PMs, Test Managers, Developers, and QA teams on technical direction, dependencies, and design decisions
  • Review solution changes, CRs, and ensure technical feasibility before commitment
  • Guide teams through complex root-cause analysis, performance issues, and design bottlenecks

Integration Architecture

  • Design and govern integration models across API gateways, ESB/Middleware, microservices, and event-driven architecture
  • Define integration patterns for CRM, billing, charging, provisioning, digital apps, and external partner ecosystems
  • Work with API teams to design OpenAPI/Swagger specifications, security policies, throttling, and versioning

ODA & Modernization Alignment

  • Ensure architecture aligns with TM Forum ODA principles, functional domains, and Open APIs
  • Drive cloud-native modernization (containers, microservices, Kubernetes, DevOps pipelines)
  • Recommend opportunities for simplification, consolidation, and platform reusability

Pre-Sales & Solution Shaping

  • Support Sales and Pre-Sales teams with solution proposals, RFP/RFI responses, customer workshops, and technical sections of bids
  • Perform effort estimation, solution sizing, risk identification, and architecture scoping
  • Present technical solutions confidently to CTO/CIO-level customer stakeholders

Customer Engagement & Advisory

  • Act as a key technical counterpart to customer architects and engineering teams
  • Lead design discussions, technical deep dives, and roadmap conversations
  • Provide architectural assurance throughout the delivery lifecycle

Delivery Governance (Architectural)

  • Conduct architecture reviews, design walkthroughs, and compliance checks
  • Ensure solution quality during UAT/SIT by working with delivery teams on design alignment
  • Manage architectural risks, design deviations, and performance concerns

Documentation & Standards

  • Create architecture documentation including: High-Level Designs (HLD), Low-Level Designs (LLD), Integration Designs, API Specifications, Data Models, Sequence Diagrams, Deployment Architectures
  • Define and enforce coding guidelines, design standards, and reusable architecture blueprints

Person Specifications

  • Ability to learn new technologies rapidly and stay continuously updated with emerging trends, architectural patterns, and AI-driven advancements to drive efficiency and productivity
  • 10 - 15+ years of experience in Telco/Enterprise architecture
  • Strong expertise in BSS/OSS, CRM, charging/billing, mediation, and provisioning
  • Experience designing large-scale integrations using API Gateways, ESB, microservices, and event-driven systems
  • Strong understanding of TMF ODA, TMF Open APIs, domain-driven design (DDD), and cloud-native architecture
  • Hands-on experience with at least one major vendor ecosystem (Huawei, Whale Cloud, Amdocs, Ericsson, MATRIXX, Hyperscalers)
  • Ability to guide technical teams and manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously
  • Strong communication with the ability to explain complex architectures in simple terms
  • Excellent stakeholder management (internal + external)
  • Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving capabilities
  • Leadership presence with the ability to influence decisions
  • Collaborative and able to work across delivery, sales, and product engineering
  • Preferred Certifications (Optional): TOGAF / TMF Open API / ODA certifications, AWS/Azure/GCP Architect, Kubernetes / CNCF, Kafka / Integration-related certifications

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