The purpose of the role is to create exceptional and detailed architectural application design and provide thought leadership and enable delivery teams to provide exceptional client engagement and satisfaction. The role involves developing architectural applications for new deals and major change requests in existing deals, creating an enterprise-wide architecture that ensures systems are scalable, reliable, and manageable. The candidate will manage application assets and direct development efforts within an enterprise to improve solution delivery and agility. They will guide how to construct and assemble application components and services to support solution architecture and application development, maintain frameworks and artifacts used in the implementation of applications, and be responsible for application architecture paradigms such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) and microservices. The role also includes providing solutions for RFPs received from clients and ensuring overall design assurance.