Solution Architect

We are looking for aSolution Architect to act as the technical authority across a portfolio of digital products on a shared TypeScript/Node.js stack and AWS. You will guide architecture governance, security remediation, and resilience hardening while aligning engineering and stakeholders on technical direction. Apply to help shape scalable, secure systems.

Responsibilities

• Assess and document current architecture across the product portfolio, highlighting risks and improvement opportunities
• Validate architecture decisions from delivery pods to ensure consistency with shared standards
• Own and drive the security remediation backlog across services and platforms
• Lead resilience hardening by defining and validating reliability patterns and operational safeguards
• Drive cloud account separation and restrict non-production environment access
• Provide technical oversight for infrastructure-as-code practices and consolidation across pods
• Guide platform initiatives such as pipeline security scanning and operational metrics foundations
• Advise on event streaming reliability patterns for Kafka-based consumer services
• Run architecture walkthroughs during onboarding and act as the primary technical escalation point
• Communicate architecture trade-offs clearly to engineers and stakeholders
• Contribute to engineering standards, ADRs, and runbook documentation
• Mentor pod leads on architecture decision-making and technical risk assessment
• Apply AI coding assistants for architecture spikes and security pattern implementation while reviewing outputs for fit and safety

Requirements

• 3+ years of solution architecture experience across distributed systems
• Strong stakeholder leadership skills to align engineering and non-technical partners on trade-offs
• Proven project ownership experience driving cross-team initiatives and technical governance
• Strong cloud architecture skills with Amazon Web Services
• Strong content platform skills with Content Management Systems
• Strong security engineering skills covering authentication, authorization, secrets, and vulnerability remediation
• Strong resilience engineering skills using retries, circuit breakers, DLQs, and dependency health checks
• Strong infrastructure-as-code skills to review and guide portfolio-wide standards
• Strong event-driven architecture skills for streaming and consumer reliability patterns
• Strong written communication skills for ADRs, standards, and runbooks
• Ability to use AI coding assistants for spike work and evaluate generated code for correctness and security
• Advanced proficiency in English (B2+/C1)

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Terraform for multi-account cloud setups
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, and Secrets Manager
• Experience designing systems that include AI/ML components or LLM-based workflows
• Experience with observability tooling such as Datadog
• Experience with Kafka platforms such as Confluent Kafka