Solutions Architect - Remote - Octopus by RTG

Role Overview

Solutions Architect for Octopus by RTG at Robusta. Remote position.

Role Purpose

Own the technical shape of complex, multi-service platform solutions from vision through to delivery. Translate business and regulatory requirements into coherent architecture, make and defend the decisions that constrain how systems are built, and stay engaged through implementation to ensure delivery matches design.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Design & Strategy

• Own the end-to-end solution architecture for assigned platforms and workstreams, across application, data, integration, security and deployment concerns.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into architectural decisions, and make the trade-offs explicit.
• Define service boundaries, API contracts, data ownership and event models across a distributed system.
• Design integration with external and third-party systems, and define the adapter and anti-corruption patterns that keep the core insulated from them.
• Define the non-functional posture — scalability, availability, performance, resilience, observability — and ensure the design actually meets it.

Architecture Governance & Documentation

• Produce and maintain formal architecture deliverables: architecture vision, high-level design, integration designs, and decision records.
• Lead design reviews, guide engineering leads, and govern that implementation stays true to the agreed architecture.
• Produce clear architecture documentation and diagrams that engineers can actually build from.

Security & Compliance

• Embed security and compliance requirements into the architecture rather than bolting them on, working closely with security and risk stakeholders.

Technical Evaluation & Risk Management

• Evaluate technologies and vendors, and produce clear, evidence-based recommendations.
• Identify and articulate architectural risks, assumptions, dependencies and open decisions, and drive them to closure.

Delivery Support

• Support estimation, technical scoping and delivery planning alongside product and delivery leadership.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years in software engineering, with at least 3 years in an architecture role on large, multi-service systems.
• A background of building software yourself, with enough current depth to review code and design credibly.
• Deep experience with a major backend ecosystem — Java and Spring Boot, or an equivalent enterprise platform.
• Strong data architecture skills: relational modelling, persistence strategy, transactional integrity and consistency trade-offs across services.
• Experience designing for cloud-native or containerized deployment (Kubernetes or OpenShift) and CI/CD delivery.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong command of distributed system design: microservices, service boundaries, API design and versioning, and event-driven architecture.
• Solid grasp of security architecture — identity and access management, OAuth2 / OpenID Connect, authorization models, encryption and secrets management.
• Excellent stakeholder communication — able to hold a technical position under challenge and explain it in plain language to a non-technical audience.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.