The Solution Architect, Enterprise Systems is a senior, clientâfacing technical leader responsible for designing and guiding integrated, endâtoâend enterprise solutions across complex application and data landscapes. This role focuses on system integration, interoperability, and architectural coherence, ensuring business processes, platforms, and data work together reliably at enterprise scale.
The Solution Architect partners closely with Sales, Engineering, and Delivery teams from presales through execution, translating business objectives into pragmatic integrated architectures while maintaining architectural integrity throughout delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Architecture
- Define endâtoâend solution architectures that span multiple systems, platforms, and vendors, with a strong emphasis on integration and interoperability
- Make architectural decisions across application integration, data movement, identity, security, error handling, resiliency, and operational monitoring
- Design architectures that support business process orchestration, system decoupling, and longâterm maintainability
- Establish integration standards, patterns, and guardrails aligned with Hitachi Solutions and industry best practices
System Integration & Interoperability
- Lead the design of integration architectures using APIs, eventâdriven patterns, messaging, and data synchronization approaches
- Define integration strategies across ERP, CRM, custom applications, data platforms, and thirdâparty systems
- Address common enterprise integration challenges including data consistency, latency, failure handling, and versioning
- Ensure integrations are designed for scalability, reliability, observability, and supportability
Data & Process Alignment
- Design data flows and integration patterns that enable consistent, trusted data across systems
- Partner with business and functional stakeholders to align endâtoâend business processes across applications
- Ensure integration architectures support reporting, analytics, and downstream consumption needs
- Balance realâtime, nearârealâtime, and batch integration approaches based on business requirements
Software Engineering & Delivery Alignment
- Provide architectural guidance to engineering teams to ensure integrations are buildable, testable, and operable
- Define application and integration patterns including API design, service boundaries, and contract management
- Ensure alignment with modern delivery practices including CI/CD, automated testing, and DevSecOps
- Review designs and implementations to ensure engineering quality aligns with architectural intent
Presales & Client Engagement
- Partner with Sales to drive solution design during pursuits, including integration discovery, architecture definition, and estimation
- Contribute to proposals, statements of work, and executiveâlevel presentations
- Clearly communicate integration tradeâoffs, risks, and recommendations to client IT leadership and executives
- Act as a trusted advisor for clients navigating complex, multiâsystem environments
Delivery Enablement & Governance
- Partner with Delivery teams to ensure the integration architecture defined in presales is carried through execution
- Provide ongoing architectural oversight and decision support during delivery
- Identify integration risks early and drive mitigation strategies
- Support customer satisfaction through clear, proactive communication across technical and business teams
Traveling up to 50% annually to support sales pursuits.