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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Solution Architect - **Company:** Alfa Financial Consultants Incorporated - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Salary:** $130,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Databases, Information Engineering, Data Warehousing, Java Message Service (JMS), Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Systems Integration, Web Services, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Enterprise Integration, Apache Kafka, Api Design, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Docker - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/solution-architect-co-us-alfa-financial-softwar-9770537 ## About the Role * Prior experience working on an Alfa implementation, using Alfa Systems * Experience in software development, technical advocacy, technical consultancy, technical pre-sales, solution architecture or enterprise architecture. * Ability to investigate technical discussions around design and an intellectual curiosity to always keep your technical skills current while maintaining a pulse on industry trends. * Excellent communication and consultancy skills. * Business analysis and client requirement gathering. * Knowledge of common integration patterns and approaches. * Ability to look at a problem holistically, balancing competing constraints, to identify pragmatic solutions, often in an evolving environment. * Experience in mentoring and coaching. Preferred: * Experience in the US Auto / Equipment Finance Industry. * Integration experience with APIs, web services, event streaming and messaging (Kafka, JMS, SQS etc). * Experience with market-leading SaaS or iPaaS solutions. * Hands-on AWS/Azure/Google Cloud experience. * Database experience, including with reporting systems/data warehousing. * Performance analysis, with tools like JProfiler/CodeGuru. * Knowledge of Containers (Docker). * Knowledge of and experience with data engineering concepts, tooling and patterns. ## Description Alfa is looking to recruit a Solution Architect to our team with prior Alfa implementation experience and hands on experience with Alfa Systems software., * Understand and document our client's systems and integration landscape and then propose, design & deliver integration solutions. * Supporting customer configuration of the Alfa Systems' platform to meet their business requirements * Work to deeply understand the customer's business objectives and requirements, and design and architect solutions which are in-line with best practice, accelerating launch of the customer's business on the Alfa Cloud platform. * Work closely with the customer to understand their program roadmap, and uncover and realize opportunities for Alfa. Be a trusted advisor to key customer's business and technical stakeholders. * Provide technical design consulting for API-based integrations * Align requirements to product functionality, offering best practice and scalable solutions along the way * Architect the appropriate business intelligence/data-warehousing approach for integrating from our platform to the client data landscape. * Assess non-functional requirements and assist with the implementation. * Work with our clients to develop performance targets, testing plans and to assist with execution, including the performance tuning of the Alfa application and diagnosing issues. * Collaborate with our functional experts to provide guidance to our clients about product functionality including standard methodology and inquisitive workarounds. Work with clients and engineering to add to and manage enhancements on our product roadmap. * Support client teams with overall architecture across existing supported platforms and our cloud hosted services as appropriate. * Distill and share your knowledge both internally and externally. 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