AWS Solution Architect

Job Title

Lead the design of modern, cloud-native, and serverless architectures aligned with the client's long-term technology vision.

You Have

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, including Solution Architecture or Senior AWS Developer roles.
• Strong experience designing large-scale distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven workflows.
• Proven expertise building cloud-native and serverless architectures, ideally on AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, EventBridge, SQS)
• Hands-on development experience with Node.js, preferably in serverless-first environments.
• Understanding of modern front-end ecosystems, especially React/TypeScript.
• Solid grasp of architectural patterns, API design (OAuth2, OpenID Connect), security best practices, and cloud governance.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, stored procedures, JSON-based schemas, and data modeling for modern cloud systems
• Proficiency with DevOps workflows and IaC (Terraform/CDK), CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and orchestration (ECS preferred over EKS)
• High emotional intelligence, adaptability, and ability to operate in a consulting / advisory model.
• Stack-agnostic mindset and ability to work with evolving technologies and adapt architecture decisions as the stack changes over time.
• Ability to challenge assumptions, validate architectures, and justify solution decisions with clarity and evidence

You Are Going To

• Drive the rewrite and modernization of selected legacy .NET modules into Node.js/React services.
• Ensure solutions follow defined architectural guidelines and comply with the overarching technical strategy.
• Participate in early-stage discovery and translate complex business needs into clear technical strategies.
• Build architectural documentation
• Leverage PostgreSQL capabilities to increase performance and reduce unnecessary service complexity.
• Support the transition to a new architecture while maintaining operational continuity
• Provide technical guidance to engineers and tech leads across backend & frontend domains
• Support the adoption of AWS AI/ML services within the product ecosystem
• Conduct PoCs to validate technical approaches, AI integrations, and cloud-native design patterns
• Collaborate with frontend teams designing SSR-based solutions using React + Next.js
• Ensure scalability, security, observability, and maintainability across all system components
• Work closely with Product, Business, DevOps, and engineering teams to support decision-making and solution delivery
• Engage regularly with stakeholders to communicate architecture choices, risks, and trade-offs
• Support estimation, scoping, and decomposition of new features and rewrite initiatives