Digital Solutions Architect

Role overview

The Digital Solutions Architect is responsible for shaping and overseeing the full architecture lifecycle for smart-city digital solutions delivered on the Platform. This role makes sure that solutions proposed by different vendors follow the Platform’s reference architecture, remain cloud-agnostic, and comply with security and governance expectations. It also converts business objectives into practical solution designs, ensures smooth use of shared platform capabilities such as identity, observability, data, and APIs, and supports delivery through design reviews, implementation checks, and operational readiness activities. A key part of the role is creating scalable and reusable patterns that make onboarding and deployment easier to repeat.

Qualifications and experience

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Cybersecurity is required; a Master’s degree is strongly preferred.

• At least 10 years of experience in solution or enterprise architecture for large-scale digital platforms, ideally in smart city, government, telecom, or critical infrastructure environments.
• Hands-on experience delivering cloud and hybrid solutions involving Kubernetes, APIs, identity, and observability.
• Demonstrated involvement in architecture governance, including Design Authority, architecture boards, standards, and exception handling.
• Experience working with system integrators and vendors under RFP-based or contracted delivery models, including acceptance criteria management.
• Working knowledge of TOGAF/ADM or comparable architecture frameworks, along with agile delivery at scale.

Skills and abilities

• Strong capability in end-to-end solution architecture across applications, data, integration, security, and operations.
• Ability to govern multi-vendor delivery while keeping execution aligned to standards and delivery timelines.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and the ability to translate between business, engineering, security, and operations teams.
• Experience defining non-functional requirements such as availability, performance, resiliency, scalability, and observability.
• Strong documentation and decision-making skills, including architecture decision records, reference architectures, patterns, and roadmaps.

Tools and platforms

• Architecture modelling tools such as ArchiMate, Sparx EA, Visio, and Draw.io.
• API and integration tools and standards including OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and API gateways such as Apigee, Azure APIM, and Kong.
• Delivery and governance tools including Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Terraform, and Bicep.