Solution Architect – Enterprise Systems

The Solution Architect, Enterprise Systems is a senior, client‑facing technical leader responsible for designing and guiding integrated, end‑to‑end enterprise solutions across complex application and data landscapes. This role focuses on system integration, interoperability, and architectural coherence, ensuring business processes, platforms, and data work together reliably at enterprise scale.

The Solution Architect partners closely with Sales, Engineering, and Delivery teams from presales through execution, translating business objectives into pragmatic integrated architectures while maintaining architectural integrity throughout delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture

• Define end‑to‑end solution architectures that span multiple systems, platforms, and vendors, with a strong emphasis on integration and interoperability
• Make architectural decisions across application integration, data movement, identity, security, error handling, resiliency, and operational monitoring
• Design architectures that support business process orchestration, system decoupling, and long‑term maintainability
• Establish integration standards, patterns, and guardrails aligned with Hitachi Solutions and industry best practices

System Integration & Interoperability

• Lead the design of integration architectures using APIs, event‑driven patterns, messaging, and data synchronization approaches
• Define integration strategies across ERP, CRM, custom applications, data platforms, and third‑party systems
• Address common enterprise integration challenges including data consistency, latency, failure handling, and versioning
• Ensure integrations are designed for scalability, reliability, observability, and supportability

Data & Process Alignment

• Design data flows and integration patterns that enable consistent, trusted data across systems
• Partner with business and functional stakeholders to align end‑to‑end business processes across applications
• Ensure integration architectures support reporting, analytics, and downstream consumption needs
• Balance real‑time, near‑real‑time, and batch integration approaches based on business requirements

Software Engineering & Delivery Alignment

• Provide architectural guidance to engineering teams to ensure integrations are buildable, testable, and operable
• Define application and integration patterns including API design, service boundaries, and contract management
• Ensure alignment with modern delivery practices including CI/CD, automated testing, and DevSecOps
• Review designs and implementations to ensure engineering quality aligns with architectural intent

Presales & Client Engagement

• Partner with Sales to drive solution design during pursuits, including integration discovery, architecture definition, and estimation
• Contribute to proposals, statements of work, and executive‑level presentations
• Clearly communicate integration trade‑offs, risks, and recommendations to client IT leadership and executives
• Act as a trusted advisor for clients navigating complex, multi‑system environments

Delivery Enablement & Governance

• Partner with Delivery teams to ensure the integration architecture defined in presales is carried through execution
• Provide ongoing architectural oversight and decision support during delivery
• Identify integration risks early and drive mitigation strategies
• Support customer satisfaction through clear, proactive communication across technical and business teams

Traveling up to 50% annually to support sales pursuits.

• 15+ years of experience in solution architecture, integration architecture, or senior technical leadership roles
• Consulting or professional services background
• Experience working within architecture governance or design authority models
• Deep experience designing enterprise system integration architectures
• Strong understanding of:
  • Application and data integration patterns
  • API design, messaging, and event‑driven architectures
  • Enterprise data movement and synchronization strategies
• Experience integrating platforms such as ERP, CRM, custom applications, and data platforms
• Ability to bridge business processes and technical execution across multiple systems
• Strong executive‑level communication and stakeholder management skills

Base Salary Pay Range*: $170,000 - $230,000 USD/$155,000 - $215,000 CAD

*The current applicable Base Salary Pay Range for this role is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills relevant to the role, internal equity, alignment with market data, or other law.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines

Other Compensation / Benefit Overview

In addition to Base Salary, the successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the following plans / programs, upon satisfying all hiring requirements:

• Bonus Plan

• Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage

• Life Insurance and Disability Programs

• Retirement Savings with Company Match

• Paid Time Off

• Flexible Work Arrangements including Remote Work

We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines

Beware of scams

Our recruiting team may communicate with candidates via our @hitachisolutions.com domain email address and/or via our SmartRecruiters (Applicant Tracking System) notification@smartrecruiters.com domain email address regarding your application and interview requests.

All offers will originate from our @hitachisolutions.com domain email address. If you receive an offer or information from someone purporting to be an employee of Hitachi Solutions from any other domain, it may not be legitimate.

Beware of scams

Our recruiting team may communicate with candidates via our @hitachisolutions.com domain email address and/or via our SmartRecruiters (Applicant Tracking System) notification@smartrecruiters.com domain email address regarding your application and interview requests.

All offers will originate from our @hitachisolutions.com domain email address. If you receive an offer or information from someone purporting to be an employee of Hitachi Solutions from any other domain, it may not be legitimate.

Hitachi Solutions is a global Microsoft solutions integrator passionate about developing and delivering industry-focused solutions that support our clients to deliver on their business transformation goals. Our industry focus, expertise, and intellectual property is what truly sets us apart. We have earned, and continue to maintain, a strategic relationship with Microsoft. Recognized for our achievements - teaming with our clients to deliver innovative digital solutions and services - is how we have achieved year after year recognition.

As their trusted advisor, we support our clients to deliver on their strategic business initiatives as they unify, automate, and modernize their data and operations to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance their customer’s experience. Our over 3,000 team members across 14 countries, and our 18 years of 100% focus on Microsoft technologies and business applications, is how we deliver excellence through expert services and industry-focused cloud solutions.

A part of Hitachi, Ltd., our company has a long and rich history of innovation, financial strength, and international presence of one of the world’s largest companies. Since 1910, Hitachi, Ltd. has been a leader in manufacturing innovative products and solutions that support industry and social infrastructure around the globe supported by 303,000 employees in over 100 countries and across 864 companies.

Hitachi Solutions is a global Microsoft solutions integrator passionate about developing and delivering industry-focused solutions that support our clients to deliver on their business transformation goals. Our leadership in Global Dynamics 365 Field Service and Manufacturing is what truly sets us apart and enables us to maintain a strategic relationship with Microsoft.