Software Solutions Architect
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Role Overview
SWORD Group is seeking a Senior Software Solutions Architect with extensive experience translating enterprise architecture policies into practical CDP architecture standards.
The role provides end-to-end architecture guidance and assurance to product teams and vendors.
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About the Company
SWORD Group provides IT, digital, and software services across more than five continents.
The group operates in the MEA region through offices in KSA, UAE, Lebanon, and Cyprus.
About the Role
SWORD Group is seeking a Senior Software Solutions Architect with extensive experience translating enterprise architecture policies into practical CDP architecture standards.
The role provides end-to-end architecture guidance and assurance to product teams and vendors.
Key Responsibilities
- Translate enterprise architecture, security, cloud, integration, data, and technology policies into CDP standards and guidelines.
- Develop architecture principles, reference architectures, approved patterns, templates, checklists, processes, and quality-gate criteria.
- Maintain HLD and LLD templates, review checklists, decision records, risk registers, compliance assessments, and approval workflows.
- Provide hands-on architecture support across ideation, planning, sourcing, design, and delivery.
- Guide product teams and vendors on solution design, technology selection, integration, data, security, cloud, and non-functional requirements.
- Review HLDs, LLDs, integration designs, and other technical artefacts.
- Identify architecture risks, gaps, dependencies, non-compliance, and remediation needs.
- Promote reuse of approved shared services, components, and design patterns.
- Support architecture quality gates and provide architecture recommendations and approval decisions.
Minimum Qualifications Needed
- 8 or more years of relevant software technology experience, including solution architecture.
- Strong hands-on experience developing architecture standards, templates, processes, reference architectures, and governance artefacts.
- Experience reviewing and guiding secure, scalable, and integrated enterprise solutions.
- Strong knowledge of application, integration, data, cloud, security, and non-functional architecture.
- Strong technical documentation, stakeholder-management, and vendor-management skills.
- Government or large-enterprise experience is preferred.
Why Work With Us
- Opportunity to work on cloud projects affecting enterprise-scale systems.
- Hybrid or remote work environment with an employee-wellness focus.
- International exposure and multicultural experience with a diversified global expert team.
- Possibility of travel for defined engagements to a regional SWORD Group office.
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