We are seeking a talented and experienced Solutions Engineering professional to join our team. As a leader in Solutions Architecture and Development, you will be responsible to design end-to-end architecture for high impact regional and global initiatives; translate business needs into robust, cloud ready architectures; define integration and data frameworks; and provide guidance throughout all phases of project delivery from initial concept through value realization.
About Your Role:
- Manage the end-to-end solution architecture including application, integration, data, security, and operations for business initiatives within regional offices
- Produce option evaluations, high-level design / low-level design, interfaces specifications, and non-functional designs, ensure designs meet existing controls and procedures, and document trade-offs aligned to business goals
- Facilitate architecture decisions with business and IT leadership, present clear options, impacts, and TCO, contribute to application portfolio rationalization, and alignment with regional standards and global IT strategy
- Architect integrations between applications and data, including eventing, APIs, and ELT/ETL patterns, with specific focus on our data architecture
- Establish canonical data models and access controls to enable reusable integration and data products, and collaborate with regional teams to improve data quality, lineage, and cataloging for governance
- Ensure verifiable design on data privacy, security, and regulatory controls such as data masking, encryption at rest and in transit, least-privilege access, adherence to cloud standards, and security endorsement
- Provide architecture reviews, patterns, and guardrails from design through build, test, UAT, and release when delivering solutions with IT and SI partners
- Engineer operability into designs (observability, performance, capacity, resilience/DR, support models) and ensure hand over with runbooks and support patterns that meet SLAs
- Supervise developers to build, deploy and deliver full-stack solutions, effectively execute DevOps and CI/CD practices consistent with our frameworks, and curate reference implementations and reusable templates to accelerate time to value
Does it sound like you?
- At least 10 years in solution architecture/engineering, with 3 years leading application/integration or data platform architectures in hybrid cloud environments
- Strong track record producing HLD/LLD, interface specs, data models, and non-functional designs (security, performance, availability, DR)
- Experience operating within governance frameworks (e.g., ISMS/ISO) and multi region delivery (time zones, vendor coordination)
- Demonstrated ability to understand complex business requirements and architect effective technical solutions
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across regional locations
- Demonstrable delivery in enterprise applications & integrations (e.g., Dynamics 365, ServiceNow, SAP SuccessFactors, Azure AD/Entra, API gateways), workflow & automation and data warehousing/BI (e.g., Azure, Snowflake, ADF, Power BI)
- Advanced proficiency in programming languages including Java, Python, .Net/C#, and JavaScript, as well as expertise with Microsoft development platforms such as Azure, Power Platform, and Visual Studio
- Substantial experience with databases and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Candidates with less experience will be considered for a position of Solution Architect
Interested parties please forward your full resume (in Microsoft Word or PDF format) with current and expect salary to Ricoh Asia Pacific Operations Limited, by clicking "APPLY" .
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