Solution Architect

About GEP

GEP is a diverse, creative team of people passionate about procurement. We invest ourselves entirely in our client’s success, creating strong collaborative relationships that deliver extraordinary value year after year. Our clients include market global leaders with far-flung international operations, Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises, and leading government and public institutions.  

We deliver practical, effective services and software that enable procurement leaders to maximize their impact on business operations, strategy, and financial performance. That’s just some of the things that we do in our quest to build a beautiful company, enjoy the journey and make a difference. GEP is a place where individuality is prized and talent respected. We’re focused on what is real and effective. GEP is where good ideas and great people are recognized, results matter, and ability and hard work drive achievements. We’re a learning organization, actively looking for people to help shape, grow, and continually improve us.  

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Solution Architect (Director)

Role Overview

GEP is hiring a Solution Architect to establish and own the architecture function for the Source-to-Contract (S2C) portfolio. The Solution Architect will combine strong domain knowledge of S2C applications with an architecture mindset, hands-on performance engineering skills, and the ability to drive SDLC improvements, while representing S2C in cross-functional forums across the wider enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture Ownership & Governance

• Own end-to-end solution architecture across all modules within the S2C portfolio.
• Act as the single point of authority for architecture governance — evaluating design approaches and taking final decisions on complex or contested design questions.
• Define and maintain capability modeling for the S2C domain, mapping how S2C fits into GEP's broader enterprise architecture so future solutions have a clear place to be designed against.

Cross-Functional Engineering Partnership

• Represent S2C in cross-functional architecture and engineering forums (e.g., dependencies with P2P, enterprise-wide initiatives such as “Godzilla”), and be empowered to make decisions on S2C's behalf.
• Partner with the Enterprise Architecture organization to align S2C's architecture direction with the company's overall architecture vision.

Performance, Scalability & Non-Functional Engineering

• Identify and design scalable, performance-oriented solutions to address customer-facing performance, scalability, and throughput challenges.
• Bring seasoned expertise in non-functional engineering areas, including performance, scalability, security, and observability.
• Partner with the S2C engineering team to propose and implement solutions to production-level performance and scale issues.

Technical Debt & Modernization

• Proactively identify technical debt across S2C applications and own the roadmap to address it.
• Bring prior experience modernizing legacy or aging systems, ideally within a B2B, enterprise-scale environment.

SDLC & Engineering Excellence

• Assess the current software development lifecycle and identify opportunities for improvement in DevOps, CI/CD, and related engineering practices.
• Introduce new ways of working that improve delivery speed and quality, in the spirit of ongoing initiatives.

Qualifications & Experience

• Architecture & Engineering: 12+ years of significant experience in software architecture and engineering, with a track record of owning architecture for complex, enterprise-scale applications.
• Architecture Design Patterns: Strong expertise in applying architecture design patterns to build scalable, resilient, and maintainable systems.
• Cloud & DevOps Platform: Deep hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services and Microsoft Azure DevOps for managing the lifecycle of enterprise applications.
• Microservices & Backend Development: Proven experience in developing microservices using C#, Python, and Node.js.
• API Design: Comprehensive background in REST API design, development, and management.
• Production Operations: Proven track record addressing performance, scalability, security, and observability challenges in production environments.
• System Modernization: Experience driving tech debt modernization initiatives in complex, at-scale systems.
• Domain Knowledge: Experience in source-to-contract, procurement, or comparable B2B enterprise SaaS domains is a plus, but not mandatory — the ability to learn and scale into the domain matters more than prior S2C-specific exposure.
• Stakeholder Management: Strong stakeholder management skills; comfortable representing a domain in cross-functional forums and influencing decisions without direct authority.
• SDLC & Process Improvement: Working knowledge of SDLC best practices, DevOps, and CI/CD, with a history of driving process improvements.