Solutions Architect | US or | Fully Remote

Position: Solutions Architect | US or CAN Based | Fully Remote
Company Description Artificial Intelligence. Automation. Cloud engineering. Advanced analytics. For business leaders, these are key factors of success. For us, they’re our core expertise.
We work with iconic brands worldwide. We bring them a unique value proposition through market-leading technology and business process excellence.

We’ve created over 200 unique inventions under several patents across AI and other critical technologies. Leveraging our advanced products and platforms, we drive digital transformation, optimize critical business operations, reinvent experiences, and pioneer new solutions, all provided through a seamless “as a service” model.

For each company, we provide new keys for their businesses, the people they work with, and the customers they serve. We tailor proven and rapid formulas, to fit their unique DNA. We bring together human expertise and artificial intelligence to develop digital chemistry. This unlocks new possibilities, transformative outcomes and enduring relationships.

Job Description Sutherland is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect (Contractor) to support one of our growing healthcare programs! The Solutions Architect will translate business needs into secure, scalable, and cost-effective technology solutions. This role will partner with business and technology teams to understand their objectives, evaluate options, and design practical solutions that support the organization’s strategic priorities.

Reporting to the Head Information Security Architect, this is a cross-functional technology architecture role—not a dedicated information security position. Its scope encompasses applications, integrations, data, infrastructure, cloud services, and third-party platforms. Security is an integral design consideration alongside functionality, usability, reliability, maintainability, and cost.

The Solutions Architect will connect business stakeholders with technical delivery teams, providing architectural direction from discovery through implementation. The role will help teams make informed technology decisions, navigate dependencies, and deliver solutions that fit the broader enterprise environment. Candidates can be based out of the US, Canada or the UK! In this role, the Solutions Architect will:

Partner with business stakeholders to understand desired outcomes, by analyzing and interpreting business and technical requirements into architect comprehensive solutions.

Then translate business needs into functional requirements, non-functional requirements, technical requirements, with actionable solution designs.

Aligning AI initiatives with our client's organizational goals and ensuring long term scalability by generating End-to-End solution design spanning business applications, enterprise platforms and cloud services.

Key Responsibilities
• Business Partnership and Requirements Discovery
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand desired outcomes, operational challenges, and opportunities for technology improvement.
• Translate business needs into functional requirements, technical requirements, and actionable solution designs.
• Identify constraints, dependencies, assumptions, and success criteria early in the planning process.
• Help stakeholders evaluate whether to adopt existing capabilities, purchase a solution, build new functionality, or integrate available services.
• End-to-End Solution Design
• Design solutions spanning business applications, enterprise platforms, data flows, integrations, infrastructure, and cloud services.
• Balance business value, user experience, scalability, reliability, security, delivery complexity, and total cost of ownership.
• Evaluate proposed solutions for compatibility with existing systems, enterprise standards,…