Solution Architect

Driven by the passion to improve quality of people’s lives, WSA continues to grow as market leader in the hearing aid industry. With our commitment to increase penetration in an underserved hearing care market, we want to accelerate our business transformation in order to reach more people, more effectively.

We are looking for a Solution Architect to lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and maintainable enterprise solutions across our digital platforms. This role will provide architectural leadership across multiple products and engineering teams, ensuring that solutions align with enterprise standards, business objectives, and long-term technology strategy.

What you will do

• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable solution architectures across products and platforms.
• Produce architecture artifacts, technical specifications, solution design documents, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• Translate business and functional requirements into well-defined technical solutions and implementation approaches.
• Lead architecture reviews and governance activities, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles and technical standards.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate architectural risks across projects and workstreams.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, DevOps, Security teams, and business stakeholders to shape technology solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams, Technical Leads, and senior developers.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns, frameworks, reference implementations, and technical standards.
• Design cloud-native solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure services and modern application architecture practices.
• Define application, data, integration, deployment, and API architectures.
• Support engineering teams in adopting best practices around scalability, security, observability, and maintainability.
• Drive technical modernization initiatives, architecture consistency, and reduction of technical debt.
• Contribute to engineering planning, roadmap development, and technical decision-making processes.
  
  

What you bring

Experience

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Solution Architecture or Technical Architecture roles.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale applications using Microsoft technologies.
• Strong experience working in Agile software development environments.
• Experience providing architectural leadership across multiple engineering teams.
  
  

Technical Skills

• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure cloud architecture and modern application design.
• Experience designing solutions using:
• C#
• .NET / ASP.NET Core
• ReactJS
• REST APIs
• Microservices
• Event-driven architectures
• Distributed systems
• Strong understanding of:
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• SOLID Principles
• Clean Architecture
• API-first Design
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery concepts
• Experience defining architecture standards, governance frameworks, and reusable design patterns.
• Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and API governance.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Azure certifications (AZ-305, AZ-204, AZ-400).
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms.
• Experience with SaaS platforms and multi-tenant architectures.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and cloud-native modernization initiatives.
  
  

Personal Competencies

• Strong architectural and strategic thinking abilities.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Proven mentoring and technical coaching skills.
• Ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and functions.
• Customer-focused mindset with a strong emphasis on quality, scalability, and continuous improvement.
  
  

Who we are

At WSA, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

Sounds wonderful? We can't wait to hear from you.

WSA is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.