Senior Solution Architect | Hybrid in Makati

We are seeking a highly capable and adaptable Solution Architect to design, guide, and deliver enterprise technology solutions across business and technical domains.

The ideal candidate will have broad engineering and architecture experience, with the ability to evaluate technology options, guide technical decisions, and establish solution direction while balancing business priorities, delivery objectives, security, cost, operational supportability, and long-term sustainability.

The Solution Architect will collaborate with product owners, engineers, operations, security, enterprise architecture, and business stakeholders to translate business objectives into practical, scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions aligned with enterprise standards.

Key Responsibilities

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

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

- Evaluate technology options, identify trade-offs, and recommend fit-for-purpose solutions.

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

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

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

- Facilitate solution discovery, architecture reviews, technical assessments, proofs-of-concept, and design workshops.

- Collaborate with engineering, operations, security, product, enterprise architecture, and business teams to drive alignment and decision-making.

- Guide delivery teams through planning, design, implementation, and operational readiness.

- Communicate architecture decisions, recommendations, risks, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.

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

Technical Requirements

Candidates should have hands-on technical experience that enables effective engagement with engineering teams and informed architectural decisions.

Relevant technical foundations include:

- Cloud and platform services.

- Software, infrastructure, or automation engineering.

- Source control and CI/CD platforms such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins, or similar tools.

- Programming, scripting, or automation using C, Python, PowerShell, Go, or comparable languages.

- REST APIs and systems integration.

- JSON, YAML, or equivalent data formats.

- DevOps, Agile, SAFe, or similar delivery practices.

- Understanding of enterprise infrastructure, security, identity management, resiliency, observability, and operational supportability.

Equivalent technologies and transferable experience will be considered. The successful candidate should demonstrate the ability to quickly develop working knowledge of new technologies, platforms, business domains, and operating environments.

Qualifications and Experience

- Minimum of 8 years of professional 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, including monitoring, incident management, resiliency, lifecycle management, and operational readiness.

- Proven ability to translate business requirements into practical technical solutions.

- Experience leading technical discussions, influencing decisions, documenting design rationale, and establishing architecture direction across multiple teams.

- Ability to evaluate alternatives, manage trade-offs, and make sound architecture recommendations.

- Experience identifying and managing technical, operational, delivery, and organizational risks.

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

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

- Familiarity with Agile, SAFe, DevOps, or similar delivery environments.

Required Skills and Competencies

Architecture and Technical Leadership

- Ability to design enterprise technology solutions, evaluate architecture options, establish technical direction, and guide engineering teams toward scalable, secure, supportable, and cost-effective outcomes.

Technical Breadth and Learning Agility

- Strong technical foundations and the ability to quickly develop knowledge across new technologies, platforms, and business domains.

- Ability to build credibility with engineers, stakeholders, and leadership teams.

Systems Thinking and Problem-Solving

- Ability to analyze complex business and technical challenges, identify risks and dependencies, evaluate trade-offs, and develop practical solution strategies.

- Ability to balance business priorities, delivery objectives, security, cost, and long-term sustainability.

Stakeholder Management and Influence

- Strong communication, facilitation, and technical storytelling skills.

- Ability to align stakeholders, facilitate decision-making, manage dependencies, and drive outcomes across cross-functional teams without relying on direct authority.

- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.

Architecture Governance and Continuous Improvement

- Strong problem-solving, decision-making, architecture documentation, and governance capabilities.

- Commitment to simplification, standardization, automation, reuse, and continuous improvement.

Candidate Information

- Highest Educational Attainment:

- Years of Professional Experience in Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, Automation, Database Engineering, or Related Technical Disciplines: