Lead Solution Architect – Enterprise Platform
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About the Role
Norconsult Telematics seeks a Lead Solution Architect to define and deliver the architecture of a large-scale enterprise platform for a Telco Operator. This player-coach role requires hands-on delivery experience, deep integration skills, and expertise in Kubernetes, API design, and data migration.
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Responsibilities
- Own and maintain the end to end enterprise architecture blueprint for the platform
- Define the target architecture across business, application, integration, data, security, and infrastructure layers
- Produce and review both HLDs and LLDs including physical infrastructure design, data flow design, and deployment topology
- Ensure the platform can support enterprise scale usage, high availability, performance, scalability, and operational resilience
- Lead architecture governance, technical design reviews, and architecture decision making
- Align platform design with enterprise technology standards, cybersecurity policies, infrastructure standards, and integration principles
- Design and personally guide integration with ERP, IAM, telecom/network systems, planning/design platforms, reporting systems, and enterprise integration layers
- Plan and execute legacy system transition and migration including coexistence strategy, data migration execution, cutover runbooks, rollback plans, and decommissioning
- Identify architecture risks, technical debt, scalability gaps, and improvement opportunities, and drive their remediation
- Work closely and hands on with business owners, security teams, infrastructure teams, data teams, application teams, vendors, and architecture review boards
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Telecommunications, IT, Computer Science, or related field
- 10–15 years of experience in IT/software, with a minimum of 5 years in solution, platform, or enterprise architecture roles
- Recent hands on delivery experience (within the last 2–3 years): has personally built, deployed, or debugged production systems
- Proven experience taking at least one large platform through the full cycle: design, build, migration, and go live
- Deep integration experience: API design, messaging platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar), and ETL/data migration execution
- Practical infrastructure skills: Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud or on premise deployment models, and infrastructure as code exposure (Terraform, Ansible)
- Strong communication, reporting, and stakeholder management skills
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Position Objectives
- The Lead Solution Architect will be responsible for defining, governing, and hands on delivering the overall architecture of a large scale enterprise business application platform of Telco Operator.
- This is a player coach role: the architect will own the enterprise blueprint while working directly in the detail producing low level designs, guiding implementation teams, and participating in migration and cutover execution.
- The role ensures alignment between business objectives, application architecture, data architecture, integration architecture, security standards, infrastructure scalability, and enterprise technology governance.
- This role is suitable for a senior architect with recent hands on delivery experience in complex enterprise platforms such as ERP, telecom OSS/BSS, government digital platforms, banking systems, large workflow platforms, or system integration led business applications.
Job Description and Responsibilities
- Own and maintain the end to end enterprise architecture blueprint for the platform.
- Define the target architecture across business, application, integration, data, security, and infrastructure layers.
- Produce and review both HLDs and LLDs including physical infrastructure design, data flow design, and deployment topology.
- Ensure the platform can support enterprise scale usage, high availability, performance, scalability, and operational resilience.
- Lead architecture governance, technical design reviews, and architecture decision making.
- Align platform design with enterprise technology standards, cybersecurity policies, infrastructure standards, and integration principles.
- Design and personally guide integration with ERP, IAM, telecom/network systems, planning/design platforms, reporting systems, and enterprise integration layers.
- Plan and execute legacy system transition and migration including coexistence strategy, data migration execution, cutover runbooks, rollback plans, and decommissioning.
- Identify architecture risks, technical debt, scalability gaps, and improvement opportunities, and drive their remediation.
- Work closely and hands on with business owners, security teams, infrastructure teams, data teams, application teams, vendors, and architecture review boards.
Qualification and Required Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Telecommunications, IT, Computer Science, or related field.
- 10–15 years of experience in IT/software, with a minimum of 5 years in solution, platform, or enterprise architecture roles.
- Recent hands on delivery experience (within the last 2–3 years): has personally built, deployed, or debugged production systems not solely reviewed or governed others' designs.
- Proven experience taking at least one large platform through the full cycle: design, build, migration, and go live.
- Deep integration experience: API design, messaging platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar), and ETL/data migration execution.
- Practical infrastructure skills: Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud or on premise deployment models, and infrastructure as code exposure (Terraform, Ansible).
- Strong communication, reporting, and stakeholder management skills able to brief leadership and whiteboard implementation detail with engineers.
Preferred Certifications
- TOGAF
- Cloud architecture certification
- Kubernetes / OpenShift certification
- ITIL
- PMP or equivalent delivery governance exposure
Preferred Experience
- Experience in telecom, infrastructure delivery, or large scale digital transformation programs.
- Experience with Odoo, ERPNext, Oracle EBS/Fusion, SAP, ServiceNow, Maximo, or similar enterprise platforms.
- Experience with Oracle procurement, invoice, fixed asset, or financial integration.
- Experience with architecture review boards and regulated enterprise environments.
- Experience in Middle East large transformation programs or Asia based system integration delivery.
Location and Schedule
- Job position is based in Damascus, Syria Full time
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