Lead Solution Architect; Tantus

Lead Solution Architect (US - Remote)

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The Lead Solution Architect serves as the senior technical authority across a portfolio of modernization, shared services, and security-focused initiatives in support of our client. This role is responsible for defining and governing end-to-end solution architectures that balance business needs, technical feasibility, security requirements, and long-term sustainability. The Lead Solution Architect provides strategic direction, architectural oversight, and hands‑on guidance to ensure solutions are scalable, reusable, secure, and aligned with enterprise goals.

This position operates at the intersection of enterprise architecture, shared technical enablement, and security engineering, providing cohesion across teams and ensuring that technical decisions drive measurable value.

• Define and maintain solution and architectural roadmaps that align modernization efforts with organizational strategy and future‑state objectives.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, architectural patterns, and tooling to inform strategic investment decisions and innovation initiatives.
• Reduce technical debt by guiding system evolution toward standardized, interoperable, and cloud‑optimized architectures.
• Provide architectural guidance and decision support to leadership through trade studies, impact analyses, and solution options.

• Lead the design and adoption of shared technical solutions, reusable components, automation frameworks, and Dev Sec Ops  capabilities across teams.
• Partner with delivery leadership to ensure shared services are operationalized, adopted, and embedded into delivery pipelines rather than remaining isolated assets.
• Establish architectural standards, reference designs, and best practices that improve consistency, delivery velocity, and maintainability.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for cross‑team dependencies, integration challenges, and complex design decisions.

• Ensure security is embedded into solution designs from inception, balancing compliance, risk mitigation, and delivery efficiency.
• Collaborate with security engineering and compliance teams to align architectures with cloud security best practices, defense‑in‑depth principles, and regulatory expectations.
• Guide secure cloud migrations, identity and access…