Solution Architect

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You are the connective tissue across our Engineering function. Owning the end-to-end technical design of a domain, ensuring multiple sub-domains and systems form a coherent ecosystem. This entails translating business ambition and product vision and combining it with technical execution to create practical and scalable, and AI-native end-to-end solutions that deliver real outcomes.

With a specific focus across domains, you unite expertise with architectural vision, and make the complex simple. You ensure technical solutions - both the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ are accomplished across the technology ecosystem, with AI-assisted development embedded as a first-class practice across the teams you influence.

Working collaboratively is second nature - you guide key decisions, negotiate trade-offs and oversee execution; ensuring every solution strengthens our product vision. In short, you make ambition buildable and strategy actionable! You bring architecture into product planning early — not as a reviewer at the end, but as a co-designer from the start.

• Peer Solution Architects and Engineering Directors to align architecture with business strategy and enable teams to move faster with confidence. 

• Product leaders, business stakeholders, Staff Engineers, Engineering VPs and Directors, and external thought leaders

• Proven track record of delivering large-scale solutions across multiple geographies

• You bring context, clarity and creativity; shape designs that are both strategically sound and practically executable  and that account for the evolving capabilities of AI-assisted development tooling

• The ultimate problem solver and business partner; you possess excellent business acumen to spot both the solution and the opportunity.

• Ability to see the bigger picture across the whole technology ecosystem.

• First class communication skills to convey complex architectural decisions in a clear and concise manner, so engineering teams, product leaders, and business stakeholders all understand what is to be built and why

• Always one-step ahead - you actively shape how AI-native development practices evolve within the organisation, not just adopt them

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering building software products, at scale with at least 3 years as a Tech Lead, Staff Engineer, or Architect responsible for defining and delivering technology solutions across complex domains

• Working experience of working on one or more of Advertising, Subscriptions and Commerce domains would be a PLUS.

• Expert fluency in at least 2 programing languages including Python, NodeJS; working knowledge of AI code generation tools (Codex/Claude Code/Cursor/GitHub Copilot/ Augment Code) change development workflows and code quality standards

• Good understanding of Agentic AI concepts and hands-on experience working on on Agentic AI projects in production — including agent orchestration, LLM tool use, evaluation frameworks, guardrail design, and multi-agent pipeline architecture

• Demonstrable experience defining and governing AI-assisted development practices within an engineering organisation — including how agentic tooling integrates into CI/CD pipelines, code review, test automation, and production readiness standards

• Experience with cloud native ecosystems(AWS/Azure) with exposure on deployment infrastructure, observability, security and resilience paradigms

• Strong ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams in Product Management, UX and Analytics teams across different geographies and time zones

• Ability to translate highly complex technical requirements into easily digestible and actionable plans

• Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal, and ability to communicate effectively on technology solutions and their business impact

• Ability to coach, mentor engineers across levels with the ability to build architectural thinking and AI fluency across the organisation — elevating technical capability beyond your immediate team

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below, and we will review your application as soon as possible. You can update your resume or upload a cover letter at any time by accessing your candidate profile.

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