Lead Solution Architect – Enterprise Platform

About the role

The Lead Solution Architect will own the end‑to‑end architecture of a large‑scale enterprise platform for a telecom operator. This player‑coach position combines strategic blueprinting with hands‑on design, implementation guidance, and migration execution.

Key responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture blueprint across business, application, data, integration, security, and infrastructure layers.
• Produce and review high‑level and low‑level designs, including physical infrastructure, data‑flow, and deployment topology.
• Lead architecture governance, technical design reviews, and decision‑making processes.
• Guide integration with ERP, IAM, telecom/network systems, planning platforms, reporting tools, and enterprise integration layers.
• Plan and execute legacy system migration, including coexistence strategy, data migration, cutover runbooks, rollback plans, and decommissioning.
• Identify and remediate architecture risks, technical debt, and scalability gaps.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Telecommunications, IT, Computer Science or related field.
• 10–15 years of IT experience with at least 5 years in solution, platform, or enterprise architecture.
• Recent hands‑on delivery of large platforms (design, build, migration, go‑live).
• Strong collaboration with business owners, security, infrastructure, data, and application teams.

Required skills

• API design
• Kafka
• RabbitMQ
• ETL and data migration
• ERP integration
• IAM integration
• Telecom network systems integration