18/03/2018
Technology Solution Architect Interview Question Answers
A Solution Architect layout the solution architecture of a system delivered in context of a specific requirement or business domain. It may encompass description of an entire system or only its specific parts. Solution architect designs solution driven around functional requirement of an application however it does layout the details for non functional requirements of the system as well
So what are typical interview questions do solution architect faces in an interview....
There is no standard set of questions, it is driven by the interviewers who are evaluating the architect. These interviewers are from from business /technology practice head or project teams working on specific customer requirement in some technology area. If the interviewer from project team then interviewers are more biased towards technical challenges they faced and/or are facing in their day to day activities. If they are from business or technology practice then they are looking for holistic solution approach and looking for candidate addressing enterprise wide problems in terms of business domains they are working, automation, extreme programming and developing solution for futures.
The list of questions below are based on my personal experiences while facing interview with companies like Mastek, Hexaware, Capgemini, HCL, Reliance, Oracle Financial Services. Apologies for putting them in raw format but will be revising over period of time.
Start with Interview Know each other... Who are we and who are you... summarizing your experiences, technology interest and role/work you would like to be in .. sometime reason for looking for change or driving out factors.
Get comfortable ... Describing your latest project experience, your role, client and environment. This is driver for most of interview where interviewer picks up some of the questions and start understanding your experience level and start trying to see your fitments for open position.
If interviewer tuning up with your work experience and open position, your 60-70% interview question will be more like discussion to know more about you and your relevant experience for the position. The rest will be general questions to see how elastic you are and awareness to world outside your project purview
If you are facing interview from project team and having core technology area as JAVA then refer to my earlier post on Technical Architect
If you getting head on with Solution /Technology practice for interview then here was some questions
Describing the your business solution problem and how are your addressing the same and Why are you addressing.. aren't there different ways ..better
you will be put in various scenarios to play instance role to give solution.
Given a Trading application (NSE or BSE) where thousands of application receives feeds or perform trading activities through broker... How would you design the solution to develop a typical trading application
Market for Mobile Wallet or PayCommece is booming and as more and more customer are open up to smartphone mobile payment , shopping activities. How do you put a startup solution plan around this and describe the technology solution backbone behind it
A company is established for past 100 years and acquired many companies and it system with different technologies. These attributes to massive technology complexity to the company ... how would you address the solution for common system platform for all business department
Other scenarios can come from developing Amazon Cloud (AWS), or addressing pick load of irctc.. some case for smart cities... startup india .. make in India
What is Architecture Vision, business driver, Goals and solution ecosystem blueprint for one of use case above
How do you perform business risk assessment
Technology is dynamically changing... how would you secure agility in your solution architecture for next 5 years.
What is Strategic solution architecture and how would you meet up with tactical solution architecture
How do you handle Architecture Change Management
What are architectural Risk and how to mitigate... use examples from past project or give scenarios
How to handle Security in application architecture
How to handle compliance in application architecture
Elaborate on Solution architecture governance
Have you worked with Agile Solution Architecture practice
Thanks for reading this, If you have any questions/concerns/suggestions/advise please do post the same.. :)