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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Solution Architect - **Company:** Fynbosys Inc - **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Platform as a Service (PAAS), Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, Enterprise Software Applications, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Real Time Data, Apache Kafka, Docker, Confluent - **Published:** September 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/1a62b84e-0d99-4350-982f-c6bbb026b591 ## About the Role · Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent. · 10+ years of software engineering experience including 5+ years in architecting enterprise applications using modern integration technologies · Well experienced in the Retail/Supply chain industry, familiar with application systems and business practices in this realm · Experience solutioning end-to-end full-stack applications, integration of SaaS and PaaS systems · Experience building technology roadmaps spanning 3-5 years · Experience in vendor evaluation and scoring of new technologies/tools · Excellent team player, ability to work independently and as part of a team · Experience in mentoring technical team-members and providing technical leadership · Familiarity with architectural frameworks and patterns · Experience working in a SAFe ® /Agile environment · Experience contributing to multiple medium to large size initiatives simultaneously · Familiarity with streaming platforms (real-time data at massive scale like Confluent Kafka). · Experience with AWS or other public clouds from a system design perspective · Experience working with containers, Docker, Kubernetes or other container schedulers ## Description Principal Duties and Responsibilities: · Solution/system Design of System architecture and roadmap · Utilize architecture best practices and standards in design and build · Design and document re-usable and scalable frameworks and components · Provide first level effort and cost assessments to departmental initiatives · Coordinate & collaborate with counterparts in other departments to ensure technology solutions are built for the enterprise · Assist management in making technology decisions by weighing in on risk and ROI · Participate and contribute to yearly strategic initiative planning and funding discussions · Collaborate with Product Management, Domain Architects and Lead Engineer to bring projects from concept to implementation · Serves as primary technical solution design architect for one or more teams and their systems and integrations · Serves as primary decision escalation resource for addressing architecture and integration issues affecting their team · Continuously drive improvements in areas like performance, security, automation, quality, monitoring, and reliability of platforms · Develops and maintains current and future-state architecture models and ensures all documentation is kept up to date · Keeps up with industry best practices, technologies, architectures, trends, emerging technologies and develop proof of concept projects to validate new ideas ## Related Videos - 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