Job Title: Solution Architect 

Job Level: Senior 

Department: Development / Engineering 

Business Unit: Global Operations — Tanzania 

Duty Station: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (with travel to JNIA, AAKIA & KIA sites) Reports To: IT Manager / Group CTO 

Supervisory Role: Yes (technical leadership of engineering staff) 

Employment Type: Full-time 

Job Summary 

Under the Design, Build and Maintain (DBM) programme delivered for the Government of  Tanzania, The Civil Aviation and Immigration Security Services (CAISS) platform across the  country’s international airports. We are recruiting locally for a Solution Architect to own the  end-to-end technical design of these systems and to ensure they remain secure, performant,  resilient, and aligned with both client requirements and Securiport’s global engineering  standards. 

Solution Architect will report to the IT Manager / Group CTO. He/she will be responsible for  translating business and operational requirements into robust, scalable solution architectures  spanning biometric and immigration processing, data analytics, integration services, and  supporting infrastructure. He/she will define the technical blueprint, guide implementation  across engineering teams, and serve as the senior technical authority that bridges leadership,  the government team, headquarters (HQ), and field operations. 

This is a hands-on leadership position; while your primary focus is architecture and design,  you are expected to contribute directly to critical components, prototypes, and proofs of  concept. You will be allowed to create new intellectual property and patentable technology.  You will work in an Agile environment with a strong bias toward Scrum. 

As this is a senior position, you are expected to be self-guided and to possess excellent written  and verbal communication skills, as you will be required to participate in and lead  presentations to clients, the government team, and management. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Define, document, and own the end-to-end solution architecture for CAISS  components, including biometric processing, immigration workflows, data analytics,  integration layers, and supporting infrastructure. 
• Translate business, operational, and regulatory requirements into clear technical  designs, architecture diagrams, interface specifications, and decision records. • Establish and enforce architectural principles, standards, and patterns across the  engineering team, ensuring consistency, maintainability, and reuse. 
• Make and justify key technical decisions on data modelling, system integration,  security, scalability, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and analysts, reviewing  designs and code to uphold quality and best practice. 
• Lead solution design for new features and ‘greenfield’ initiatives, and operationalize  prototypes into high-performance, production-ready solutions. 
• Collaborate with technical leadership, the government team, and HQ on concepts,  strategy, and the full software lifecycle — from requirements through to delivery and  maintenance. 
• Design and oversee integrations with hardware devices (e.g., cameras, biometric  capture devices, and sensors) and third-party systems. 
• Ensure solutions meet security, performance, availability, and disaster-recovery  objectives across all deployment sites (JNIA, AAKIA, and KIA), including the Zanzibar  DR site. 
• Contribute directly to the solution code base for critical or complex components as  required. 
• Demonstrate products to stakeholders, incorporate feedback, and contribute to  technical presentations and demonstrations for clients. 
• Follow development standards, processes, procedures, and required tools throughout  the development life cycle, and assist in planning and coordination of the software  lifecycle. 
• Correct program errors, prepare operating instructions, and compile documentation of  program development; analyze system capabilities to resolve questions of program  intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques, and  controls. 
• Create novel concepts that contribute to Securiport’s portfolio of intellectual property.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities 

• Demonstrated experience designing and architecting full-lifecycle software solutions — requirements, design, development, test, deployment, and maintenance. • Strong, demonstrable experience leading the technical design of distributed, multi-tier  systems and integrations. 
• Demonstrated technical working experience with small (3–10 member) Agile teams, with  a strong bias toward Scrum. 
• Strong understanding of relational database technology and data modelling (e.g., SQL  Server), plus working knowledge of reporting/analytics platforms (e.g., Power BI). • Experience with multiple programming languages and frameworks. 
• Experience interfacing with hardware devices (e.g., cameras and sensors). • Experience with modern CI/CD technologies and principles (e.g., Azure DevOps). • Solid grasp of security architecture, identity and access management (e.g., Keycloak),  

and infrastructure concepts including DNS, clustering, monitoring (e.g., Zabbix), high  availability, and disaster recovery. 

• Ability to produce clear architecture documentation and to communicate complex  technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
• Self-guided, with excellent written and verbal communication skills suited to client- and  management-facing presentations. 

Required Education, Certifications / Licenses, Related Experience 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering,  or a related field. 
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in a related field, including at least 2 years in a solution  architecture, technical lead, or equivalent senior design role.
• In lieu of a degree, a total of 12 years of experience in a related field will meet the  education and related experience requirements listed above. 
• Experience with commercial cloud architectures (Azure, Amazon AWS). • Experience working in a Kubernetes or Docker environment. 
• Experience with distributed computing enablers such as Apache Kafka. • Experience with NoSQL databases such as DGraph and MongoDB. • Tanzania national only. 

Physical Job Requirements 

• This position requires the ability to remain in a stationary position (standing and/or  seated) for the majority of the working day. 
• This position requires the ability to spend the majority of the working day viewing  computer monitors. 

Travel Requirements 

• This position requires periodic domestic travel to deployment sites at JNIA, AAKIA,  and KIA, and may eventually require international travel. 

Job Information:  

Date Opened: 15th June 2026 

Industry: Airline-Aviation 

Job Type: Full time 

Total Openings 1 

Location – Tanzania  

To apply, submit your updated Curriculum Vitae and send through E-mail recruitment [email protected] 

Cleary Indicate ‘’ Application for the Position of Solution Architect’’ in your Email  Subject. 

Deadline for application is on 28th June 2026. Only shortlisted Candidate will be  contacted.