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 platform. You will govern architecture decisions, lead security and resilience improvements, and align teams and stakeholders on technical direction. Apply to help shape scalable, secure systems.

Responsibilities

• Assess and document current architecture across the product portfolio, highlighting gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities
• Validate architecture decisions across delivery pods to ensure consistency with portfolio-wide standards
• Own and drive the security remediation backlog, including authentication, authorization, injection risks, secrets handling, and endpoint exposure
• Lead resilience hardening by defining and rolling out reliability patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, dead-letter queues, and dependency health checks
• Drive cloud account separation and restrict non-production access to reduce blast radius and improve governance
• Provide technical oversight for infrastructure-as-code practices and promote consistent, secure Terraform patterns
• Guide CI/CD improvements with security scanning and delivery metrics instrumentation
• Advise on event streaming reliability patterns for Kafka-based consumer services
• Run architecture walkthroughs during onboarding and act as the primary technical escalation point across pods
• Communicate architecture trade-offs clearly and tailor messages to different stakeholder groups
• Contribute to engineering standards, ADRs, and runbook documentation
• Mentor pod leads on architecture decision-making and technical risk assessment
• Use AI coding assistants for spikes, code generation, and security pattern implementation, and review AI output for correctness and security

Requirements

• 2+ years of solution architecture experience in distributed systems on Amazon Web Services
• Hands-on experience with Content Management Systems
• Strong stakeholder management skills to align engineering and product leadership
• Solid project leadership skills across multiple delivery teams or pods
• Advanced cloud security knowledge covering IAM, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation
• Strong infrastructure-as-code knowledge using Terraform
• Strong resilience engineering skills with retries, circuit breakers, and queue-based patterns
• Strong documentation skills for ADRs, standards, and runbooks
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2)
• Strong communication skills to explain trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences

Nice to have

• Experience with AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q, or Claude Code
• Experience designing systems that include AI/ML components or LLM-based workflows
• Experience with Kafka-based consumer services and reliability patterns
• Experience with Next.js and NestJS stacks
• Experience with observability tooling such as Datadog