About this role
Job title: Solution Architect
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About the Role
Wiley is looking for a strong Solution Architect to join our ReX Review & Screening team in Iași, Romania. Research Exchange (ReX) is Wiley's publishing platform, built from components such as Review, Screening, and Commissions. As a Solution Architect, you will provide a holistic view of, and take ownership of, its infrastructure and supporting technologies, ensuring solutions meet business requirements and strategic direction for the long term in a secure, scalable, and cost-effective way. You'll partner closely with senior leaders, engineering and delivery teams, product managers, and development teams across these components to keep roadmaps aligned and guide well-considered technology decisions, all while remaining pragmatic.
Responsibilities
- Provide a holistic view of, and ownership over, the platform's core and supporting technologies, building consensus on its future technical direction.
- Make high-level technical decisions that influence all development teams, defining and communicating architectural solutions through code, where appropriate.
- Understand the business context and vision for ReX, partnering with product teams to propose solutions that align with our direction.
- Guide a cohesive technical direction across ReX's core components, helping each development team make well-aligned architectural choices as the platform evolves.
- Lead scoping, architecture, and design across cloud and on-premises technologies, and drive multi-year architecture roadmaps.
- Develop solutions using a cloud-first approach on AWS; establish strategies for secure identity, authentication, and authorization architectures; and lead security projects from conception through implementation.
- Evaluate integration requirements for business solutions, ensuring adherence to architecture standards and information security policies.
- Educate, support, and mentor development teams through training and hands-on collaboration, focusing on building the teams' own capabilities rather than creating dependency on you.
- Continuously improve technical processes and practices, and implement quality assurance guidelines for testing, code quality, and deployment.
- Stay ahead of industry trends, contribute to technology strategy and roadmaps, and maintain documentation of architectural decisions and standards.
- Be part of the wider Research Architecture Group, contributing to pan-Wiley architec