GeneralDevOps/Cloud
Solutions Architect
Also written as SA, Solution Architect
A customer-facing technical role that designs how a product fits into a client's existing systems — part engineer, part consultant, usually attached to a sales or delivery team.
Think of it like
Like an architect who visits your plot, looks at the drainage and the neighbours, and adapts a standard house design to actually work there.
Junior or senior?
Junior sounds like
Describes the product they represented.
Senior sounds like
Can describe a deal or delivery they changed the shape of because the customer's constraints made the standard answer wrong.
Ask them
“Tell me about a customer whose environment meant the standard implementation wouldn't work. What did you change?”