Senior Solutions Architect

N-iX is a global software development service company that helps businesses across the globe create next-generation software products. Founded in 2002, we unite 2,400+ tech-savvy professionals across 40+ countries, working on impactful projects for industry leaders and Fortune 500 companies. Our expertise spans cloud, data, AI/ML, embedded software, IoT, and more, driving digital transformation across finance, manufacturing, telecom, healthcare, and other industries. Join N-iX and become part of a team where your ideas make a real impact.

At N-iX CTO Group, we harness the power of technology to drive innovation and deliver exceptional business value. We specialize in designing and executing industry-relevant solutions that redefine standards in enterprise technology. Join a vibrant team committed to driving large-scale transformation across global enterprises.

As a Senior Solutions Architect, you will play a key leadership role in shaping technology direction, guiding cross-functional initiatives, and enabling high-impact delivery. You’ll be responsible for leading complex solution engagements, from discovery and advisory to implementation, while mentoring architecture talent, strengthening practices, and contributing to company-wide strategic growth.

This role is ideal for a seasoned architect with strong consulting capabilities, a track record of hands-on project delivery, and the ability to scale architectural impact across multiple teams and accounts.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic & Leadership Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture visioning and cross-cutting strategic initiatives across a portfolio of enterprise clients.
• Drive practice growth by establishing frameworks, methodologies, and reusable assets for solution delivery and consulting engagements.
• Build and mentor architecture and engineering teams, ensuring capability uplift and technical excellence across accounts.
• Act as a trusted advisor to client C-level executives and technology leaders, helping shape digital strategy and technology roadmaps.
• Govern architecture implementation across the portfolio to ensure alignment with best practices, maintainability, and long-term value.

Delivery & Consulting Responsibilities:

• Lead or guide discovery phases, assessments, technical workshops, and architecture audits.
• Translate complex business and technical requirements into scalable, sustainable architectural solutions.
• Own solution proposals during pre-sales and upsales, including technical vision, high-level design, risk management, and cost estimation.
• Lead project execution, ensuring architecture is delivered according to vision.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, aligning client needs with forward-thinking architectural approaches.
• Act as a Chief Architect and lead a team with subordinate architects on the complex accounts.

Qualifications

• Presale and engagement experience, and this is the part we weigh most. You have led, or carried a substantial part of, discovery, assessment, and proposal work: the client workshops, the solution vision, the estimate behind it, and the artifacts that went out the door.
• 8+ years of relevant industry experience, at least 2 of them as an architect.
• Demonstrated ownership of account delivery, of discovery and assessment engagements, or of both.
• Proven experience leading consulting engagements such as assessments, discoveries, and workshops, or building and scaling architecture for large teams of 10+ engineers running 9 months or longer. Strength in both is a strong plus.
• Experience in at least 2 core technology domains: BE or FE development, data architecture, embedded and IoT, cloud architecture, enterprise architecture.
• Structured design methods in practice: architectural drivers, quality attribute scenarios, trade-off analysis, and architectural estimation, architecture work on that basis - method-driven rather than intuition-driven 
• Strong command of at least one technology ecosystem plus working knowledge of a second, enough to justify a framework choice for the solution in front of you rather than the one you know best.
• Hands-on architecture experience with more than one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP). Associate-level certification is useful evidence; hands-on depth is what we assess. 
• Experience building scalable microservice-based architecture and strong knowledge of integration patterns.
• Practical AI proficiency. You use AI tools daily in your own work and can lift others to the same level: improving team workflows, integrating AI into the delivery lifecycle, choosing and rolling out tooling, and setting sensible guardrails for its use.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. You can present technical detail to a non-technical audience.
• English: Upper-Intermediate/Advanced .

Desirable Certifications:

• SEI Software Architecture Professional
• TOGAF or similar enterprise architecture certification
• Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate/Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert)
• Domain-specific expertise in areas such as data platforms, security, or enterprise integration is a plus