Senior Solution Architect

What You Will Do

• Lead and design end to end solution architectures for Project Equinox / Program Polaris and related Exchange initiatives, from early concept to productive use.
• Work hands on on technical challenges, including building Proofs of Concept (PoCs), validating architectural options, and supporting complex integrations.
• Actively challenge the status quo, critically assess existing architectures, and drive constructive architectural debate to continuously improve the Exchange landscape.
• Innovate pragmatically by experimenting with new technologies and patterns while balancing innovation with Exchange grade stability and reliability.
• Design and evolve event driven and streaming architectures using Kafka, enabling decoupling, scalability, and resilient integration across systems.
• Shape workflow orchestration and automation approaches using Apache Airflow, promoting standardization where it adds value.
• Define and govern cloud native and container based architectures (e.g. Kubernetes / OpenShift), ensuring secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions.
• Drive performance, resiliency, and capacity architecture, addressing non functional requirements such as latency, throughput, availability, and observability.
• Identify meaningful use cases to apply AI enabled solutions (e.g. automation, insight generation, operational efficiency), ensuring explainability and regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate in Agile / Kanban setups, working closely with product owners, engineers, and stakeholders across multiple teams and domains.
• Act as a trusted sparring partner for senior stakeholders, ensuring alignment between business goals, technology strategy, and enterprise architecture.