Solutions Architect - Houston, TX

S&B Houston • Memorial Office (West), TX

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Solutions Architect defines and guides solution architecture for S&B's enterprise modernization initiatives. The role connects business needs with enterprise applications, integrations, data, cloud and infrastructure services, and cybersecurity. It helps ensure that new and legacy platforms operate as a coherent, secure, supportable enterprise ecosystem and advises IT leadership, business teams, vendors, and delivery teams throughout implementation.

The position leads architecture across enterprise modernization efforts, COTS and SaaS products, custom solutions, and legacy systems. It translates business requirements into practical end-to-end designs and provides technical guidance through implementation, testing, deployment, and stabilization. The role has no supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise applications, systems integration, software engineering, solutions architecture, or a related information technology role.
• Demonstrated experience leading the design and guiding implementation of solutions spanning enterprise applications, APIs, middleware, databases, cloud services, and legacy platforms, including COTS and SaaS integration.
• Ability to translate complex business processes and requirements into practical solution architectures.
• Ability to lead across multidisciplinary teams without direct supervisory responsibility.
• Ability to clearly explain technical decisions and trade-offs to senior leaders.
• Working knowledge of secure integration patterns, identity and access management, DevSecOps practices, solution monitoring and observability, and architecture documentation.
• Ability to interpret business and technical documentation and clearly explain architectural recommendations, decisions, trade-offs, and risks to technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Basic mathematical and algebraic equations are required.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience and demonstrated architecture leadership will be considered.
• Experience supporting technology solutions in engineering, procurement, construction, manufacturing, energy, or other industries with complex project delivery requirements.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business owners and product teams to clarify business and technical requirements and translate them into end-to-end solution designs, defining system boundaries, interfaces, data ownership, dependencies, and transition states.
• Lead solution architecture for enterprise modernization efforts, COTS and SaaS products, custom solutions, and legacy systems.
• Evaluate product capabilities, configuration options, and supported extensions before recommending customization when they cannot meet business requirements.
• Develop reusable integration patterns for APIs, middleware, messaging, event processing, file exchange, authentication, and secure system-to-system communication.
• Design reliable and supportable integrations, including data validation, error handling, appropriate retry mechanisms, monitoring, reconciliation, logging, and auditability.
• Partner with business owners, application teams, and Analytics to identify authoritative data sources, clarify data ownership, reduce unnecessary replication, and define operational and analytical data flows.
• Develop legacy modernization and coexistence plans that preserve critical business capabilities and institutional knowledge while reducing technical debt.
• Work with infrastructure, platform, and cybersecurity teams to define solution requirements and designs for cloud and on-premises environments, including connectivity, identity and access management, secrets management, availability, performance, disaster recovery, and operating cost.
• Evaluate designs and technology options during discovery, product evaluation, and implementation against business value, security, scalability, maintainability, supportability, delivery risk, and long-term enterprise fit.
• Maintain current-state, transition-state, and future-state diagrams for assigned solutions, interface documentation, architecture decisions, and significant risks.
• Participate in solution design reviews and governance.
• Provide technical guidance to developers, integration teams, vendors, and project leads throughout implementation, testing, deployment, and stabilization.
• Communicate architecture recommendations, decisions, risks, and trade-offs to technical teams, business stakeholders, project leaders, and senior leadership.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Flexible and hybrid work schedules
• Comprehensive benefits program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior