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Automation. Cloud engineering. Advanced analytics. For business leaders, these are key factors of success. For us, they’re our core expertise.\nWe work with iconic brands worldwide. We bring them a unique value proposition through market-leading technology and business process excellence.\nWe’ve created over 200 unique inventions under several patents across AI and other critical technologies. Leveraging our advanced products and platforms, we drive digital transformation, optimize critical business operations, reinvent experiences, and pioneer new solutions, all provided through a seamless “as a service” model.\nFor each company, we provide new keys for their businesses, the people they work with, and the customers they serve. We tailor proven and rapid formulas, to fit their unique DNA. We bring together human expertise and artificial intelligence to develop digital chemistry. This unlocks new possibilities, transformative outcomes and enduring relationships.\n Sutherland is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect (Contractor) to support one of our growing healthcare programs! The Solutions Architect will translate business needs into secure, scalable, and cost-effective technology solutions. This role will partner with business and technology teams to understand their objectives, evaluate options, and design practical solutions that support the organization’s strategic priorities.\nReporting to the Head Information Security Architect, this is a cross-functional technology architecture role-not a dedicated information security position. Its scope encompasses applications, integrations, data, infrastructure, cloud services, and third-party platforms. Security is an integral design consideration alongside functionality, usability, reliability, maintainability, and cost.\nThe Solutions Architect will connect business stakeholders with technical delivery teams, providing architectural direction from discovery through implementation. The role will help teams make informed technology decisions, navigate dependencies, and deliver solutions that fit the broader enterprise environment. Candidates can be based out of the US, Canada or the UK!\nIn this role, the Solutions Architect will:\nPartner with business stakeholders to understand desired outcomes, by analyzing and interpreting business and technical requirements into architect comprehensive solutions.\nThen translate business needs into functional requirements, non-functional requirements, technical requirements, with actionable solution designs.\nAligning AI initiatives with our client's organizational goals and ensuring long term scalability by generating End-to-End solution design spanning business applications, enterprise platforms and cloud services.\nKey Responsibilities\nBusiness Partnership and Requirements Discovery\nPartner with business stakeholders to understand desired outcomes, operational challenges, and opportunities for technology improvement.\nTranslate business needs into functional requirements, technical requirements, and actionable solution designs.\nIdentify constraints, dependencies, assumptions, and success criteria early in the planning process.\nHelp stakeholders evaluate whether to adopt existing capabilities, purchase a solution, build new functionality, or integrate available services.\nEnd-to-End Solution Design\nDesign solutions spanning business applications, enterprise platforms, data flows, integrations, infrastructure, and cloud services.\nBalance business value, user experience, scalability, reliability, security, delivery complexity, and total cost of ownership.\nEvaluate proposed solutions for compatibility with existing systems, enterprise standards, and long-term technology direction.\nDevelop architecture diagrams, integration specifications, architecture decision records, and implementation roadmaps.\nIdentify opportunities to simplify the technology environment, reuse existing capabilities, and reduce unnecessary duplication.\nTechnology Evaluation and Decision Support\nAssess products, platforms, services, and vendors against business and technical requirements.\nPresent recommendations with clear explanations of alternatives, trade-offs, costs, risks, and operational implications.\nLead or support proofs of concept to validate feasibility and resolve material uncertainties.\nPartner with procurement, legal, information security, and technology teams as needed during solution selection. Delivery Guidance and Collaboration\nProvide architectural guidance to engineering, infrastructure, application, and implementation teams throughout delivery.\nWork with project and product leaders to align solution scope, dependencies, sequencing, and technical milestones.\nReview implementation designs and help resolve cross-system or cross-team technical issues.\nIdentify material deviations from the agreed architecture and help teams evaluate and document appropriate changes.\nSupport transition to operations through clear documentation, ownership definitions, and knowledge transfer. • Architecture Alignment and Responsible Design\nCollaborate with Information Security Architecture to incorporate appropriate safeguards into solution designs from the outset.\nPartner with relevant specialists to address privacy, compliance, resilience, accessibility, and operational requirements.\nAlign solutions with established architecture principles and technology standards while supporting justified exceptions.\nSurface material risks and unresolved decisions to the appropriate stakeholders and decision-makers. • Contribute reusable patterns, reference architectures, and lessons learned to improve future solution delivery. Role Scope and Accountability\nThe role’s primary accountability is the quality and suitability of the overall technology solution-not ownership of the information security program. •\nDelivery teams retain responsibility for implementation and ongoing technical execution.\nSecurity, privacy, compliance, and other specialist teams retain their respective policy, assurance, and approval responsibilities.\nThe Solutions Architect connects these perspectives into a coherent design, makes recommendations, and guides architectural decisions within delegated authority.\nThe reporting relationship provides a home for architectural leadership and secure design practices without limiting the role to security technologies, security reviews, or control enforcement.\nExperience in solution architecture, software engineering, systems integration, infrastructure, cloud engineering, or a related IAM discipline.\nStrong understanding of application architecture, APIs, integration patterns, databases, networking, and cloud services.\nDemonstrated experience designing and delivering technology solutions across multiple systems or technical domains.\nExperience in solution architecture, software engineering, systems integration, infrastructure, cloud engineering, or a related discipline.\nStrong understanding of application architecture, APIs, integration patterns, databases, networking, and cloud services.\nAbility to translate ambiguous business needs into clear requirements and practical technical designs.\nAbility to evaluate alternatives across functionality, security, performance, reliability, maintainability, and cost.\nExperience producing architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and decision records.\nStrong communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to nontechnical audiences.\nAbility to build consensus, influence decisions, and work effectively across teams without direct management authority.\nAbility to work independently and collaborate effectively in a fully remote environment.\nPreferred Qualifications • Experience with enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, cloud services, and hybrid technology environments. • Experience with technology modernization, platform consolidation, or complex integration initiatives. • Familiarity with identity and access management, data protection, and secure design principles. • Experience evaluating vendors, developing proofs of concept, and assessing total cost of ownership. • Familiarity with DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automated delivery pipelines. • Relevant solution architecture, cloud, or enterprise architecture certifications. • A dedicated cybersecurity background or security certification is not required. Candidates should demonstrate the ability to incorporate security requirements into broader solution designs and collaborate effectively with security specialists. Measures of Success • Proposed solutions address clearly defined business needs and measurable outcomes. • Stakeholders receive timely, actionable recommendations with transparent trade offs. • Designs appropriately balance business value, cost, scalability, security, and operational sustainability. • Delivery teams have sufficient architectural clarity to implement solutions effectively. • Technical dependencies and significant risks are identified early rather than discovered late in delivery. • Solutions make appropriate use of existing capabilities and avoid unnecessary complexity. • Implemented solutions have clear ownership, documentation, and operational support arrangements.\nEEOC and Veteran Documentation\nDuring employment, employees are treated without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, or any other legally protected status.\nAt times, government agencies require periodic reports from employers on the sex, ethnicity, handicap, veteran and other protected status of employees. The purpose of this Administrative EEO Record is for statistical analysis only and is used to comply with government record keeping, reporting, and other legal requirements. Periodic reports are made to the government on the following information. The completion of the Administrative EEO record is optional. If you choose to volunteer the requested information, please note that all\nAdministrative EEO Records are kept in a Confidential File and are not part of your Application for Employment or Personnel file.\nPlease note: YOUR COOPERATION IS VOLUNTARY. 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