Solutions Architect

Job Description To design, recommend, and oversee the implementation of integrated solutions that address business needs and resolve operational challenges across the bank. Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture by managing change processes and establishing solution frameworks that support scalable, sustainable delivery. Hello Future Solutions Architect, Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.

As part of our talent team at FR Life Assurance, you will be surrounded by unique talents, diverse minds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change. Are you someone who can:
Define and drive the software architecture strategy, standards, patterns, and technology roadmaps to support business objectives and long-term scalability. Evaluate, recommend, and implement innovative technologies, architectural methodologies, and design patterns that improve efficiency, reduce costs, mitigate risks, and accelerate delivery. Assess existing technology landscapes and identify opportunities to retire, replace, consolidate, or modernize inappropriate or underperforming technologies to optimize operational and capital expenditure.

Provide architectural leadership and guidance to ensure solutions are designed for scalability, security, reliability, maintainability, and maximum return on investment. Build strong partnerships with business stakeholders, product owners, project teams, and technology leaders to ensure business requirements are translated into effective architectural solutions. Establish and maintain architectural governance frameworks, reference architectures, design principles, and technology standards across the enterprise. Collaborate with enterprise architects, solution architects, infrastructure teams, security specialists, and development teams to ensure alignment between business strategy and technology execution.

Lead the architecture and design of complex applications, integrations, APIs, cloud solutions, and enterprise platforms while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards. Conduct architecture reviews and provide assurance that proposed solutions meet functional, non-functional, security, compliance, and operational requirements. Analyze business requirements and translate them into architecture blueprints, technical specifications, solution designs, and implementation roadmaps. Identify, assess, and mitigate architectural, technical, operational, and business risks associated with solution delivery and platform evolution.

Guide development teams on architectural best practices, coding standards, integration patterns, cloud-native principles, AI adoption, and software engineering excellence. Provide technical leadership during project delivery, ensuring architectural integrity is maintained throughout design, development, testing, deployment, and support phases. Design resilient, secure, and high-performing solutions that support business continuity, disaster recovery, data protection, and regulatory compliance requirements. Lead proof-of-concepts, technology evaluations, and architecture innovation initiatives to validate emerging technologies and recommended solutions.

Support Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD, automation, and platform engineering initiatives that improve software quality, deployment speed, and operational efficiency. Create and maintain architecture artifacts including architecture diagrams, solution blueprints, system integration models, data flow diagrams, and technology standards…