.BigCommerce's mission is to help merchants sell more at every stage of growth, from small startups to mid-market businesses to large enterprises. We focus on being the best ecommerce platform so our customers can focus on what matters most: growing their businesses.We are equally passionate about growing our employee's careers and providing them an incredible experience as we rapidly expand across the globe. We are proud to have been recognized numerous times for our product and workplace culture. We empower our people and customers to build, innovate and grow, so together we can redefine the ecommerce industry.BigCommerce, named a "Best Place to Work" in Austin 2024, is looking for a driven Senior Solutions Architect to join our BizApps team to ensure that core business systems are supported, maintained, and continuously improving. The Senior Solution Architect is responsible for providing strategic solution approach, architecture design, recommendation, arbitration, standards & governance to ensure solution integrity, compliance & security for projects and initiatives across BigCommerce in support of our Business Units. As a critical member of the BizApps team, you will be reporting to the Senior Director of Business Technology.The Senior Solutions Architect is responsible for the identification and selection of appropriate services based on requirements and constraints; they have deep subject matter expertise and can evaluate new and existing technologies that fit in current infrastructure architecture.What you'll do:Design, build and architect solutions which support consistent information architecture, visual standards, interaction patterns, and use cases across BigCommerce's technology stack.Create architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across products, services, projects, and systems (including applications, technologies, processes, and information).Provide deliverables like standard definitions, reference models, and architecture designs to support architectural governance to assess the impact of new and ongoing technology investment.Understand and interpret business problems and design technology solutions. Develop an understanding of the business strategy drivers and the business problems to be solved by a given solution.Translate business and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint to achieve business objectives, and document all solution architecture design and analysis work.Assess existing and future solutions requirements and support vendor selection.Document and communicate post-launch collateral to be used by sustaining teams for reference, which include but are not limited to workflow diagrams, process documents, and frequently asked questions.Raise risks and communicate opportunities to management and stakeholders as they arise.Collaborate with the development team to enhance existing applications and develop new applications