Solution Architect

What you'll learn and achieve

• Partner with stakeholders, business owners, and technical SMEs to understand business drivers and capability needs, translating them into effective solution designs.
• Advocate for business partner needs throughout the solution lifecycle to ensure technologies advance ULRI-ULSE's mission and strategic priorities.
• Lead the evaluation and selection of technology platforms, software solutions, and services, designing standard and custom configurations as required.
• Consult on application development, infrastructure design, and system integrations while promoting architecture patterns and best practices.
• Design and evaluate solution architectures that align with enterprise strategy, business capabilities, and established architecture standards.
• Produce architecture deliverables—including solution diagrams, reference models, standards, and documentation—to support governance.
• Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, data protection, and quality requirements, and guide governance of key architecture decisions.
• Define and maintain architecture principles, standards, and patterns, and oversee the portfolio for aging technologies, technical debt, and misalignment; guide remediation strategies.
• Assess emerging technologies, industry innovations, and market developments to inform roadmaps, technology planning, and ULRI-ULSE's broader technology landscape.
• Support technology needs across standards development, publication workflows, member and partner engagement, knowledge management, and research-enabling platforms, including custom applications, integrations, APIs, LIMS/ELN, collaboration tools, and platforms such as Azure, AWS, Salesforce, and M365.
• Lead and/or contribute to other department specific and cross-functional initiatives.

What makes you a great fit

• Proven experience designing and implementing complex technical solutions across diverse technologies.
• Demonstrated experience integrating systems, APIs, and data sources to support interoperability and reliable workflows.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and modern application architectures.
• Experience with Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, API-driven design, and modern development frameworks.
• Strategic leader and builder of both vision and bridges, and influence decision-makers across both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong project management capability with experience managing multiple priorities and executing high-quality deliverables.
• Strong vendor management skills, with the ability to manage relationships with multiple vendors.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to quickly identify and resolve complex technical issues.
• Ability to bring strong practical experience with Azure, AWS, Salesforce, M365, or research-enabling technology platforms.

Professional education and experience requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience as a Solutions Architect or in a similar technical leadership role.
• Experience with custom software development, SaaS/PaaS platforms (M365, Salesforce, Workday), and IaaS platforms (Azure, AWS).
• Certification as an Azure Solutions Architect Expert or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
• Additional certifications in M365, Salesforce, Workday, custom application development, or research-technology platforms preferred.