Enterprise Solution Architect

The Enterprise Solution Architect designs scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions supporting the Baldwin Retail business unit. Working directly with product owners and technical teams, this role translates product requirements into technical designs, contributes to design standards and reference patterns, and ensures solutions align with enterprise architecture principles. Solutions increasingly include agentic AI and automation components alongside traditional application and integration work. The role operates as a technical individual contributor with meaningful autonomy on solution-level decisions, partnering across Product, Security, Data, and Enterprise Technology. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES Design solution architectures for Baldwin Retail that are scalable, adaptable, and aligned with enterprise architecture principles and IT strategy. Translate product requirements into technical designs, working with product owners to understand business processes and identify challenges. Design agentic AI and automation solutions where appropriate, including agent orchestration patterns, LLM integration, human-in-the-loop workflows, and tool/API exposure for agent consumption. Contribute to design standards, guardrails, and reference patterns used by engineering teams. Evaluate third-party products, platforms, and cloud services; develop build-vs-buy recommendations for architecture leadership. Review solution designs with engineering teams to surface risks and architectural gaps. Partner with Security, Compliance, and Risk to embed information security, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery requirements into designs. Collaborate with Data Platform teams on data processing patterns, integration strategies, and access boundaries. Produce architectural decision records (ADRs), integration specifications, and design documentation. Design and integrate cloud solutions across AWS and Azure, ensuring reliability and operational readiness. Prototype new solutions, validat