Solution Architect

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, resilient infrastructure solutions across enterprise data centers, colocation environments, and Microsoft Azure.
• Lead architecture planning for availability, disaster recovery, connectivity, and operational readiness initiatives.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, network, and platform teams to align solutions with enterprise standards and cloud strategy.

• Supportive, team‑driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries.
• People‑first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work.
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates.

This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritises both people and performance‑where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider‑we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customise visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

• Translate business and technical requirements into end‑to‑end infrastructure and platform architectures.
• Define data center and colocation hosting models, resiliency tiers, redundancy patterns, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Align infrastructure solutions with Azure landing zone principles, including identity, governance, networking, and security.
• Design secure connectivity and network segmentation between Azure and on‑premises or colocation environments.
• Develop operational support models including monitoring, telemetry, maintenance planning, and lifecycle management.
• Create reusable reference architectures, standards, and infrastructure design patterns.
• Participate in architecture governance reviews to ensure compliance and standards alignment.
• Communicate technical strategies and architecture decisions to both technical and business stakeholders while supporting implementation teams.
• Document target‑state architectures for Azure and colo/data‑center deployments, including resiliency and operational models.
• Create reusable reference designs for common workload types and hosting approaches in Azure and colo/data‑center environments.
• Design secure connectivity, routing, and segmentation between environments.
• Develop monitoring approach, runbooks, ownership model, lifecycle/patching approach, and DR posture aligned to architecture decisions.
• Record architecture decisions, trade‑offs, dependency maps, and implementation guidance for delivery teams.

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Minimum 9 years of experience in solution architecture, infrastructure architecture, or platform engineering roles with demonstrated data center/colo responsibilities.
• Minimum 9 years of experience with multiple programming languages.
• Minimum 9 years of experience in software or service engineering and delivery.
• Minimum 9 years of experience developing and integrating applications using relevant software architecture principles and patterns.
• Minimum 9 years of experience in Microsoft Azure expertise: app design, connectivity, resiliency, etc.
• Minimum 9 years of experience designing scalable, compliant end‑to‑end solution architectures.
• Minimum 9 years of experience in clear stakeholder communication across business, tech, and risk.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Experience working in two or more technical roles related to banking technical design.
• Experience delivering technology and enterprise‑level presentations.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Industry‑recognized certification in programming languages and cloud technologies.
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