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The platform enables candidates to test remotely while maintaining exam integrity through identity verification, monitoring, secure delivery workflows, and operational controls. The OnVUE environment includes modern and legacy systems, with ongoing focus on platform modernization, service resilience, API-first integration, cloud-native delivery, candidate and proctor experience, and improved developer and operational practices.\nRole summary\nAs a Lead Specialist, Solution Architect, you are a recognized subject-matter expert who provides technical leadership for sophisticated, high-impact solution work. You independently translate business needs, stakeholder constraints, and technical requirements into secure, scalable, viable, and maintainable architectural models and guide solution delivery from inception through implementation.\nYou maintain technical consistency within the assigned scope, balance advanced solution design with hands-on support for complex delivery challenges, and resolve day-to-day integration and build issues. You influence through depth of knowledge, sound judgment, clear communication, and the ability to steer architecture discussions toward practical outcomes. You mentor engineers, junior architects, and peers, establish trusted technical patterns within your domain, ensure conformance to established frameworks, and escalate decisions that materially exceed the assigned scope to senior experts.\nKey responsibilities\nSolution architecture and technical leadership\nTranslate business needs, stakeholder constraints, and technical requirements into robust architectural models and fit-for-purpose solution designs.\n\nOwn solution architecture from discovery and design through implementation and production adoption.\n\nProvide technical leadership for high-impact projects, major features, product changes, services, domains, or business capabilities.\n\nMaintain technical consistency within the assigned product, service, project, domain, or broader solution footprint.\n\nEvaluate and communicate tradeoffs involving scalability, security, resilience, maintainability, integration, delivery risk, operational needs, and business value.\n\nImplementation and delivery guidance\nGuide engineering and delivery teams through implementation while preserving architectural intent.\n\nResolve complex architectural, integration, and build issues within the assigned scope.\n\nConsult on technical feasibility for major features, updates, integrations, and solution approaches.\n\nIdentify high-stakes architectural risks early and coordinate practical mitigation.\n\nAdapt architecture to changing requirements without sacrificing solution stability, security, or long-term maintainability.\n\nStandards, influence, and capability building\nEstablish trusted and repeatable technical patterns within the assigned domain while ensuring conformance with established architecture frameworks, standards, and guidelines.\n\nParticipate in architecture forums and guide discussions toward sound, practical outcomes.\n\nMentor engineers, junior architects, and peers in solution design, technical practices, and architectural decision-making.\n\nCommunicate design options, recommendations, constraints, and tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nEscalate decisions outside the assigned scope or requiring senior technical or enterprise direction.\n\nRequired education and experience\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nProgressive experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or a related technical discipline.\n\nDemonstrated experience designing sophisticated solutions and guiding delivery from inception through implementation.\n\nExperience translating business needs and technical constraints into secure, scalable, maintainable architecture.\n\nExperience influencing architecture and delivery outcomes without formal authority.\n\nDesired knowledge, skills, and abilities\nStrong solution architecture, system design, integration, and technical problem-solving skills.\n\nAbility to evaluate solution options and explain tradeoffs across business value, delivery feasibility, risk, and long-term technology health.\n\nWorking knowledge of Java-based enterprise application stacks, cloud-native design, APIs, microservices, event-driven integration, containers, orchestration, CI/CD, observability, security, data consistency, and operational readiness.\n\nPractical familiarity with service decomposition, API gateway patterns, versioned API contracts, distributed tracing, messaging, data-driven backend systems, and headless or decoupled front-end and back-end architecture patterns.\n\nStrong documentation, facilitation, communication, and influencing skills.\n\nAbility to mentor others and introduce trusted, repeatable technical approaches.\n\nSuccess measures\nArchitecture artifacts are clear, fit for purpose, timely, and enable secure, scalable, stable implementation.\n\nSolution designs are adopted successfully, integrate effectively, and remain durable in production.\n\nDesign choices minimize avoidable rework, support business continuity, and reduce preventable technical risk.\n\nTechnical blockers and high-stakes architectural risks are identified and resolved or escalated in time to protect delivery.\n\nDocumentation and quality standards are met with limited revision cycles.\n\nRepeatable technical approaches, mentorship, and knowledge transfer improve team effectiveness.\n\nStakeholders trust the role to explain design options, constraints, and tradeoffs and to guide solution delivery.\n\nLeadership behaviors\nCustomer Centricity - 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