Solution Architect

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senior

$220k–$423k

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Thoughtworksreferral The Solution Architect leads complex modernization pursuits and delivery, owning architecture and quality on client engagements. They assess legacy systems, define target architectures, and guide teams through incremental modernization with minimal business disruption.

Responsibilities

Job responsibilities
Delivery leadership and solution ownership
Lead the technical direction of one or more modernization engagements from mobilization through stabilization.
Guide delivery teams day to day: set technical standards, unblock engineers, review designs and code, and coach developers, tech leads and architects.
Partner with delivery managers, product leads and client stakeholders to plan scope, sequence migration waves and manage technical risk.
Stay hands-on where it matters: pair with engineers, build prototypes, resolve hard design problems and validate that the architecture works in practice.
Own the architecture roadmap during delivery, including technical debt, dependencies and trade-offs, and report progress against business outcomes.
Establish and maintain architectural guardrails, engineering practices and governance so quality holds as teams scale.
Introduce modern engineering practices into client teams: continuous delivery, test automation, infrastructure as code and trunk-based development.
Support client technical teams during cutover and handover, including operational readiness, documentation and capability building.
Modernization architecture and value realization
Assess legacy applications, data and infrastructure to understand dependencies, risks, cost and constraints, and recommend a modernization path for each (retire, rehost, replatform, refactor or rebuild).