Solutions Architect

PortX is a leading AI-powered data and integration company for modern banking, bringing systems together and data to life through our unified platform for modern integration, governed customer 360 data, and next-generation payments. We're in strong growth mode, with new opportunities for Solutions Architects, working in a high-impact environment, with a culture that's open and rewarding, so it's a great time to join.

PortX Solutions Architects are consultants first, engineers second. You are the customer-facing owner of solution shape: you run discovery, scope the engagement, design against the PortX platform and ORCA reference architecture, and govern delivery so the implementation ships on the platform — not around it. The measure of a great SA here is not the code you write; it's how little bespoke code the engagement needs, how fast delivery squads become self-sufficient, and how much of what you design becomes a reusable, sellable asset.

• Lead discovery, scoping, solution design, and estimation for integration engagements, ensuring solutions are scalable, supportable, and commercially sound — estimates tie to standard deliverables and templated effort, not open-ended custom builds.
• Engage directly with customers across pre-sales and delivery: build trusted-advisor relationships, elicit the business problem behind the stated requirement, and translate it into the smallest platform-native solution that solves it.
• Facilitate customer workshops, architecture reviews, whiteboarding sessions, and executive presentations; communicate solution designs and trade-offs clearly to both technical and business audiences.
• Own the written solution artifacts — Solutions Design Documents, ADRs, estimates, and definition-of-done criteria — to a quality standard fit for architecture review and customer sign-off.

• Act as SME for the PortX platform (Integration Manager, ORCA, connector library) and end-to-end integration lifecycle, providing architectural guidance from intake through go-live and handover.
• Design template-first: default to fixed-price-engineering (FPE) patterns, reusable connectors, and configuration over custom code. Bespoke code is an explicit, justified exception — documented as an ADR and taken through architecture review — never a default.
• Enforce ORCA contract fidelity and platform conventions across implementations; contribute findings and standards back through the Architecture Review Council.
• Gate solution quality at intake: validate that scope, requirements, and estimates are sound before delivery commits, and flag misfit deals early.

• Mentor and coach PortX and customer development teams; the goal is squads that design, build, and support integrations with progressively less SA involvement — SA time concentrates at solution shape and review, not implementation.
• Convert engagement work into product: every project should leave behind a reusable asset — a connector, template, mapping, pattern, or documented playbook — that reduces the cost of the next similar engagement.
• Use AI tooling as a first-class delivery instrument: code generation against templates, spec-driven scaffolding, automated conformance scoring, and documentation generation. Fluency here is expected, not optional.
• Drive continuous improvement across integration patterns, delivery methodology, estimation models, tooling, and documentation.

• Lead by example through hands-on problem solving where it unblocks the team — spikes, reference implementations, and rescue work — while resisting becoming the delivery bottleneck.

• Strong enterprise integration consulting and implementation experience:…