Solution Architect Principals (Job ID: MI020)

Responsible for defining and leading the enterprise-wide solution architecture strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles, frameworks and target-state roadmaps. Provide strategic leadership to mature the solution architecture discipline, frameworks, and operating model across the company. Plan and develop globally tuned, multi-year roadmaps that connect vision to execution sequencing investments with capacity, risk, and measurable benefits. Apply Security and Compliance Principles to embed security, privacy and compliance into the design/build/test/operate lifecycle for products, services, apps, systems, software, and configurations while balancing protection, efficiency and cost. Lead cross-domain solution architecture initiatives that drive modernization, simplification, and reuse across platforms, integrations, and applications. Monitor architecture solution performance and prevent performance issues when introducing new capabilities to the system. Create System Solution Architecture designs and patterns using CLEAN standards, and existing reference patterns to maintain alignment to company standards. Define and develop architecture deliverables, artifacts and building blocks utilizing architecture development framework and methodologies that enable the organization to transform the design of its systems in a controlled manner in response to business needs. Partner with Enterprise Architects and Principal Solution Architects to establish and govern standards, patterns, and reusable components adopted across federated delivery teams. Govern, model, secure, implement and observe data flows to ensure integrity, quality, and compliance - enabling trusted, scalable, cost-conscious data. Advise senior business and IT executives on solution architecture strategy, technology investments, and modernization priorities that deliver measurable business value. Structuring capabilities, value streams, processes and operating models that translate strategy into executable designs, guide investment and transformation decisions, and deliver strategic results. Create and evolve architecture system blueprints developing reusable patterns and roadmaps to ensure scalability, resilience, security and long-term efficiency. Define and track enterprise-level architecture metrics, including adoption, reuse, simplification, and speed-to-market improvements, to demonstrate architecture value realization. Influence enterprise technology direction through deep expertise in modern architecture patterns, including cloud-native, API-led integration, composable design, and event-driven platforms. Represent Solution Architecture in enterprise governance forums, ensuring cross-domain architectural alignment and compliance with architectural patterns and standards. Mentor Principal and Senior Solution Architects, fostering collaboration, architectural excellence, and the continuous advancement of architecture capability and maturity across the organization. REQUIREMENTS: Positions require a Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer or Electronic Engineering, or related field and 3 years of experience as an IT Analyst, Software Developer or Solution Architect, Consultant or related position. Alternatively, the employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer or Electronic Engineering, or related field and 6 years of experience as an IT Analyst, Software Developer or Solution Architect, Consultant or related position. Experience to include: Strategic Roadmap Planning; Security and Compliance Principles; Lead solution architecture initiatives; Monitor system performance; System Solution Architecture designs using CLEAN standards; Architecture development framework and methodology to design systems; Data Principles to ensure integrity, quality, and compliance; Business Architecture; System Architecture; Ensure compliance with architectural patt