Senior Solution Architect shaping architecture design capabilities for global investment management firm. Collaborating with teams to translate business requirements into efficient, well-structured designs.
Responsibilities
Serve as the primary architecture authority within your delivery group, owning solution design decisions and ensuring architectural coherence across the group's application landscape
Own the full solution lifecycle for your delivery group's applications: Translate business requirements into efficient and scalable solution designs
Guide development and integration efforts, contributing hands-on when needed to validate architectural decisions or unblock teams
Provide architectural expertise for root-cause analysis and resolution of complex production issues
Lead the evolution of current business applications within your delivery group to optimize the underlying architecture
Act as the escalation point for critical technical issues, driving resolution in collaboration with engineering and operations teams
Develop deep domain expertise in the business areas your delivery group supports, and leverage that understanding to design technology solutions that directly address business needs and unlock new opportunities
Establish and build strong relationships with business stakeholders across your delivery group's domain to drive their understanding of the solution architecture vision and roadmap
Coordinate with developers, engineers, and cross-functional teams within your group to solve business problems
Contribute to iterative planning, backlog prioritization, and delivery within Agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban)
Evaluate emerging technologies, engineering practices, and vendor solutions for applicability within the delivery group's solution landscape, providing well-founded recommendations to leadership
Guide junior colleagues within your group and validate their architectural designs
Contribute to building up the architecture design capabilities across the wider Business Applications Platform, sharing knowledge, patterns, and lessons learned from your delivery group
Contribute to the definition of best-in-class reference architectures and solution design standards that apply across the entire platform
Promote consistency and reuse across delivery groups by advocating for shared design patterns, common components, and platform-wide best practices
Collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams across the globe, fostering alignment and knowledge sharing across locations and time zones
Requirements
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline
At least 8 years of professional experience in solution architecture, software engineering, or a similar role
Proven track record of leading architecture efforts end-to-end — from requirements analysis and solution design through to development guidance, deployment, and production support — with a willingness to contribute hands-on where needed to validate designs or unblock teams
Hands-on experience with the development and integration of software solutions in enterprise environments, with the ability to prototype, validate, and guide engineering teams through implementation
Strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language; experience with Python and/or Java is ideal
Understanding of relational databases and SQL; experience with modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) and how they fit into enterprise data architectures is a strong plus
Experience designing and building APIs, including RESTful services and adherence to OpenAPI specifications, is a strong plus; familiarity with modern integration patterns, event-driven architectures
Good understanding of how major cloud hyperscalers operate (AWS, Azure, GCP) and practical hands-on experience with at least one of them
Experience with cloud cost optimization strategies — such as right-sizing, reserved capacity planning, resource tagging, and FinOps practices — to ensure solution designs are cost-efficient and sustainable at scale is a strong plus
Solid understanding of security-by-design principles, secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices, and compliance-driven architecture; experience embedding operational resilience, data protection, and regulatory considerations into solution design from the outset
Experience documenting and presenting solution architectures to both technical and non-technical audiences, including the ability to produce clear architectural artifacts such as design documents, diagrams, and decision records
Proven experience leading small cross-functional teams and coordinating with developers and engineers to deliver business outcomes
Comfortable working with geographically distributed teams across multiple time zones
Entrepreneurial mindset with a drive to constantly improve the status quo
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Good to have Awareness of current AI-related trends and technologies, with an openness to evaluating and applying AI-assisted software engineering practices where they can improve solution quality and delivery efficiency
Knowledge about emerging interface standards such as MCP (Model Context Protocol) and GraphQL
Experience leveraging generative AI techniques to enhance the capability and intelligence of business applications — such as RAG, agentic AI workflows, advanced prompt engineering, and embedding-based search and knowledge retrieval systems
Experience with incident management and root-cause analysis, with the ability to provide architectural guidance for the resolution of complex production issues in enterprise applications
Experience with observability best practices for distributed systems — including structured logging, distributed tracing, and metrics collection using modern tooling (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
Experience evaluating and recommending vendor solutions, SaaS platforms, and third-party technologies within an enterprise architecture context
Experience working in or building solutions for financial services is highly desirable.
Benefits
A fast-paced entrepreneurial and international working environment in Manila with close collaboration to the different teams around the world
Long-term career opportunity in a global, dynamic and client-oriented environment
A young and driven team with an open-minded culture and great development possibilities
Opportunity to learn the business from some of the world's leading private market specialists
Competitive salary with performance-oriented compensation models
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