MS-FDL-Senior Manager - Solution Architecture

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Job Title: Senior Manager - Solution Architecture

Summary:

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Senior Manager - Solution Architecture to lead the design and governance of end-to-end enterprise solutions supporting data products and corporate finance transformation.

This role combines solution strategy, architecture leadership, and people management, translating complex business requirements into secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions. The ideal candidate will connect business processes, applications, data, integration, and cloud technologies to enable transformation across P2P, O2C, R2R, and FP&A.

You will own solution architecture quality across engagements, lead a team of architects, and partner with enterprise architecture, product, engineering, security, and business leaders to guide solutions from discovery through implementation and business value realization.

Responsibilities:

Solution Strategy & Architecture Leadership

• Own end-to-end solution architecture across complex transformation initiatives, aligning business capabilities, functional requirements, and technology choices with enterprise strategy.
• Lead discovery and architecture workshops to define solution scope, assess current-state landscapes, and develop target-state designs and phased transition roadmaps.
• Define architecture across application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security domains, with clear component responsibilities, interfaces, deployment models, and dependencies.
• Evaluate build-versus-buy options, cloud services, enterprise products, and emerging technologies through structured trade-off analysis and targeted proofs of concept.
• Establish reference architectures, design patterns, architecture decision records, and review standards; ensure alignment with enterprise principles and govern justified exceptions.
• Lead architecture reviews and resolve cross-domain design challenges, balancing business fit, scalability, resilience, security, maintainability, and total cost of ownership.

Architecture Governance & Delivery Excellence

• Provide architecture oversight across concurrent engagements, maintaining traceability from requirements to design decisions, implementation, and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with engineering and delivery teams to translate designs into actionable work, validate feasibility, and manage technical dependencies, design changes, and architecture risks.
• Define measurable non-functional requirements for availability, performance, scalability, recovery, and supportability; guide validation through testing and operational readiness reviews.
• Develop migration and modernization approaches, including data migration, coexistence, cutover, and rollback; align sequencing, estimates, and cost assumptions with delivery teams.
• Embed security, privacy, data governance, and applicable compliance requirements in solution designs, working with control owners to assess risks and close design gaps.

Team Leadership & Talent Management

• Lead and scale a solution architecture team, coordinating application, data, integration, cloud, and security specialists across engagements.
• Build an inclusive, high-performance architecture practice focused on sound judgment, collaboration, reusable knowledge, and measurable business outcomes.
• Own hiring, resource allocation, performance management, succession planning, and capability development aligned with business demand and technology priorities.
• Mentor architects and technical leads on design quality, business understanding, stakeholder influence, and career growth; strengthen communities of practice and peer reviews.

Business & Stakeholder Management

• Partner with business leaders, finance transformation stakeholders, product owners, and clients to clarify needs and translate them into feasible solution options.
• Present solution alternatives, investment needs, trade-offs, and risks to decision-makers; secure alignment on scope, target architecture, and expected business outcomes.
• Lead architecture inputs for proposals, RFP responses, and client presentations, including solution narratives, estimates, assumptions, dependencies, and implementation approaches.
• Communicate architecture decisions, delivery implications, technical risks, and business value clearly to executive and technical audiences.

Reusable Solutions & Innovation

• Develop reusable solution blueprints, accelerators, and integration patterns that improve consistency, reduce delivery effort, and support repeatable client outcomes.
• Assess opportunities to simplify application portfolios and modernize legacy solutions, balancing reuse and standardization with business-specific requirements.
• Evaluate analytics, automation, and AI-enabled solutions through business cases and proofs of value, addressing data readiness, security, responsible use, and operational feasibility.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of experience across solution architecture, software engineering, enterprise integration, or data platforms, including ownership of complex enterprise solution designs.
• 5+ years of architecture or engineering people-management experience, with a proven track record of leading architects or technical leads across multiple programs or engagements.

Technical Expertise

• Deep experience designing solutions on at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP), including hybrid integration, deployment models, resilience, and cost considerations.
• Strong expertise in application architecture, APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, enterprise integration patterns, and the trade-offs between distributed and simpler architectures.
• Strong understanding of data architecture, including transactional systems, data warehouses or lakehouses, data pipelines, master data, and analytics integration.
• Experience producing architecture models, interface specifications, decision records, and non-functional requirements; familiarity with frameworks or methods such as TOGAF, C4, or ArchiMate.
• Expertise in secure solution design, identity and access management, data protection, and enterprise governance, with working knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and operational support.

Architecture & Delivery Skills

• Proven ability to guide enterprise solutions from discovery and option assessment through design governance, implementation oversight, and transition to operations.
• Experience leading architecture reviews, proofs of concept, vendor evaluations, and risk assessments while managing cross-team dependencies and stakeholder expectations.
• Strong skills in technical estimation, total cost of ownership analysis, modernization planning, and evaluating performance, resilience, and scalability trade-offs.

Domain & Functional Knowledge

• Understanding of enterprise business processes and data models; exposure to corporate finance processes (P2P, O2C, R2R, and FP&A) is preferred.
• Experience in finance transformation, ERP integration, analytics platforms, or data-led enterprise transformation is highly desirable.

Leadership & Behavioral Skills

• Strong people leadership, practice development, and coaching skills, with the ability to lead architects and influence multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills, including executive-level engagement and client-facing solution presentations.
• Ability to balance strategic architecture with pragmatic delivery, challenge assumptions constructively, and make clear decisions under ambiguity.
• High ownership mindset focused on solution quality, implementation feasibility, sustainable technology choices, and measurable business outcomes.

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