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The architect works across organizational boundaries to drive alignment, resolve dependencies, evaluate trade-offs, manage technical risk, and support delivery teams from discovery through implementation.\nThe role is accountable for architecture governance, architecture artifacts, non-functional requirements, technical standards, peer reviews, architectural escalation, root-cause analysis participation, and continuous improvement of architecture practices. The architect mentors engineers and architects, facilitates knowledge transfer, and maintains current understanding of First Command business processes to inform architectural decisions.\nThe role operates with a high degree of autonomy and accountability and requires strong communication, leadership, decision-making, and organizational skills to drive alignment and successful solution outcomes across multiple teams.\n\nWhat will the employee do in this role?\nLead solution engagements from discovery through delivery by facilitating solution definition, shaping technical direction, driving architectural decisions, and creating alignment across participants and delivery teams.\nDefine solution architecture across systems, integrations, data domains, security, scalability, reliability, operational support, and shared technology capabilities.\nDefine and communicate architectural direction, guiding principles, standards, and technical roadmaps for solution areas and enterprise technology platforms.\nProvide architectural leadership and governance throughout the solution delivery lifecycle to ensure solutions remain aligned with approved architectural direction.\nDevelop proofs of concept and prototypes as needed to evaluate technical feasibility, validate solution approaches, identify constraints, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs, reduce implementation risk, and inform architectural decisions.\nMentor engineers and architects on solution design, architecture practices, and technical standards.\nDefine, evolve, and promote architecture standards, reference patterns, and best practices.\nEstablish and enforce architectural standards, patterns, and governance processes across teams, while promoting consistency, maintainability, and reuse.\nApply product, process, data, security, integration, and enterprise technology context to architecture decisions.\nFacilitate collaboration across cross-functional teams to drive architectural alignment, resolve dependencies, and support informed technical decision-making.\nServe as an escalation point for technical issues related to architecture, standards exceptions, technical risk, cross-system dependencies, and solution trade-offs.\nDocument architectural decisions, alternatives considered, trade-offs, assumptions, and supporting rationale with sufficient context to support implementation, support, and future enhancement activities.\nDefine and maintain architecture artifacts including system context diagrams, integration designs, data flows, architectural decision records, and technical requirements.\nIdentify, communicate, and mitigate architectural risks and technical debt.\nDefine non-functional requirements including security, scalability, reliability, recoverability, maintainability, performance, and operational support requirements.\nProvide architectural leadership for initiatives that span multiple systems, platforms, products, integrations, data domains, or delivery teams.\nFacilitate technical and product knowledge transfer across teams and stakeholders.\nEnsure architectural documentation contains sufficient context, rationale, and detail to support implementation, support, and future enhancement activities.\nPursue continuous education to master new technologies, agile processes, programming languages, industry best practices, and tools that are needed within First Command.\nLead architectural design for new systems and major enhancements, enabling delivery teams to decompose approved architectures into executable work.\nPerform peer reviews of architecture deliverables and solution designs to ensure alignment with architectural standards, design principles, and approved solution direction.\nSupport resolution of complex technical issues by contributing to root-cause analysis, evaluating architectural impacts, and recommending long-term corrective actions.\nMaintain current knowledge of First Command business processes and apply that context to solution architecture and design decisions.\nWhat skills & qualifications do you need?\nEducation\nBachelor's degree preferred. 5 years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.\nWork Experience\n7+ years of progressive experience in technology with a focus on software development, systems integration, or solution delivery.\n5+ years of experience with Business Analysis and Systems Design\n3+ years of experience leading solution architecture engagements and providing technical direction across cross-functional teams.\nCertifications\nN/A\nRequired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities\nSolution Architecture: Experience defining solution architectures across systems, integrations, data domains, security, scalability, reliability, operational support, and shared technology capabilities.\nPlatform Architecture: Experience designing scalable enterprise technology platforms and solutions with a strong understanding of architectural frameworks, design patterns, and engineering best practices.\nIntegration and Data Design: Experience designing integrations, APIs, data flows, and cross-system interactions across enterprise technology platforms.\nDevelopment Expertise: Strong background in software development and familiarity with multiple programming languages, frameworks, and engineering practices.\nTechnical Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead architecture engagements and technical decision-making without direct organizational authority. Skilled at driving alignment, resolving ambiguity, influencing stakeholders, facilitating cross-functional engagements, and progressing solutions from concept through delivery.\nDecision Quality: Ability to evaluate competing alternatives and make architecture recommendations using risk, cost, complexity, feasibility, operational impacts, and long-term maintainability considerations.\nStakeholder Alignment: Ability to facilitate collaboration across cross-functional teams, resolve dependencies, build alignment, and support informed technical decision-making.\nArchitecture Governance: Experience defining, implementing, and evolving architecture standards, reference patterns, governance processes, and best practices.\nCommunication: Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences and facilitate informed decision-making.\nDelivery Enablement: Ability to provide architectural direction that delivery teams can decompose into executable work while maintaining alignment with approved solution designs.\nTechnology Context: Ability to connect technology decisions to product requirements, process requirements, security requirements, data architecture, integration architecture, operational support models, and user experience considerations across enterprise technology platforms.\nContinuous Learning: Commitment to staying current with architecture practices, integration approaches, emerging technologies, industry trends, and enterprise technology capabilities.\nAdaptability: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple priorities simultaneously, and operate effectively with a high degree of autonomy and accountability.\nLeadership Influence: Ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence decision-making, enable other leaders, and drive alignment across organizational boundaries.\n#LI-NC1\n#LI-Hybrid","company":"Firstcommandfinancialservices","rawCompany":"firstcommandfinancialservices","city":"Fort Worth","state":"TX","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-07-16T17:59:06.615Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1211.00","title":"Computer Systems Analysts","slug":"computer-systems-analysts"},{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541330","title":"Engineering Services","slug":"engineering-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Solution Architect","description":"How will this role impact First Command?\nThe Senior Solution Architect is responsible for defining solution architecture and architectural direction across enterprise technology platforms, systems, integrations, and data domains. 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Skilled at driving alignment, resolving ambiguity, influencing stakeholders, facilitating cross-functional engagements, and progressing solutions from concept through delivery.\nDecision Quality: Ability to evaluate competing alternatives and make architecture recommendations using risk, cost, complexity, feasibility, operational impacts, and long-term maintainability considerations.\nStakeholder Alignment: Ability to facilitate collaboration across cross-functional teams, resolve dependencies, build alignment, and support informed technical decision-making.\nArchitecture Governance: Experience defining, implementing, and evolving architecture standards, reference patterns, governance processes, and best practices.\nCommunication: Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences and facilitate informed decision-making.\nDelivery Enablement: Ability to provide architectural direction that delivery teams can decompose into executable work while maintaining alignment with approved solution designs.\nTechnology Context: Ability to connect technology decisions to product requirements, process requirements, security requirements, data architecture, integration architecture, operational support models, and user experience considerations across enterprise technology platforms.\nContinuous Learning: Commitment to staying current with architecture practices, integration approaches, emerging technologies, industry trends, and enterprise technology capabilities.\nAdaptability: Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple priorities simultaneously, and operate effectively with a high degree of autonomy and accountability.\nLeadership Influence: Ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence decision-making, enable other leaders, and drive alignment across organizational boundaries.\n#LI-NC1\n#LI-Hybrid","datePosted":"2026-07-16T17:59:06.615Z","dateModified":"2026-07-16T17:59:06.615Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Firstcommandfinancialservices","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Fort Worth","addressRegion":"TX","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"9fee9d5bc0afa55f4c2e00ab"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/9fee9d5bc0afa55f4c2e00ab"}}