[Hiring] Solution Architect @SymphonyAI

Role Description

Great architecture gives teams the confidence to modernize complex environments without losing control of security, resilience, or regulatory requirements. As a Principal Solution Architect, you’ll lead architecture across multiple strategic client programs, from shaping the technical vision to setting the patterns and standards that guide delivery. You’ll solve complex architecture problems across cloud, data, integration, AI, and regulatory platforms while advising client CIO and CTO teams and working closely with engagement leaders, Product, Engineering, and delivery teams. You’ll also define how LLM, RAG, vector retrieval, and other AI capabilities are introduced and governed in production. This is a senior leadership role where you’ll set architecture direction across the practice, influence strategic client outcomes, and help other architects grow.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture.
• Own architecture direction across multiple strategic client programs and make clear technical trade-offs within your mandate.
• Set the standard.
• Define reference architectures, reusable integration patterns, and governance standards that teams can apply across client programs.
• Modernize complex systems.
• Design scalable solutions across cloud, data, integration, AI, financial crime, regulatory, and core banking environments.
• Build for production.
• Ensure solutions meet requirements for security, resilience, scalability, performance, observability, and maintainability.
• Put AI to work responsibly.
• Define architecture patterns and production standards for LLMs, RAG, vector retrieval, model integration, monitoring, and governance.
• Advise senior clients.
• Work with client CIO and CTO teams on modernization strategy, architecture decisions, risks, and priorities.
• Shape strategic opportunities.
• Support proposals, RFP responses, discovery sessions, architecture workshops, and technical sales discussions.
• Connect delivery and product.
• Bring client and implementation insight to Product and Engineering to influence platform scalability, roadmap decisions, and technical strategy.
• Help others grow.
• Develop IC3 and IC4 architects and strengthen architecture practices across the team.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of enterprise technology experience with architecture leadership across strategic client programs.
• Strong enterprise architecture skills across cloud, data, integration, AI platforms, and distributed systems.
• Financial services experience across banking, financial crime, risk, regulatory reporting, or other regulated environments.
• A track record of setting direction.
• Modernization experience.
• Strong cloud and deployment knowledge across AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP, along with containers, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
• Integration and data platform experience with REST APIs, messaging, event-driven systems, Kafka, Spark, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, or similar technologies.
• Practical enterprise AI experience.
• Executive stakeholder skills.
• An ownership mindset.

Requirements

• Experience leading enterprise AI architecture programs in financial services.
• Experience with regulatory reporting or core banking systems.
• Experience with data governance, master data management, or enterprise analytics platforms.
• Experience with enterprise middleware and application servers such as JBoss, WebSphere, or WildFly.
• TOGAF or a comparable enterprise architecture certification.
• Experience setting architecture standards adopted across a professional services or architecture practice.

Company Description

SymphonyAI is building the leading enterprise AI SaaS company for digital transformation across the most critical and resilient growth industries, including retail, consumer packaged goods, financial crime prevention, manufacturing, media, and IT service management. Since its founding in 2017, SymphonyAI today serves 1500+ Enterprise customers globally and has grown to 3,000 talented leaders, data scientists, and other professionals across over 30 countries.