Solutions Architect (AI/AWS/GCP)

We are seeking a senior-level Solutions Architect for a 6-month contract role, remote within the US (EST or CST time zone preferred). This position requires deep application development expertise and end-to-end solutions architecture experience working across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Receive epic and feature assignments with general direction from train architect
• Partner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Development technical leads to refine and understand requirements
• Collaborate with Solution Domain Lead architects to seek guidance or vet solutions impacting other domains
• Work with integration architects to deliver solution artifacts including sketches, presentations, and technical documentation
• Continuously develop and refine business and systems subject matter expertise
• Identify and leverage established architecture patterns; create new patterns when addressing novel problems
• Present solution sketches and designs to stakeholders including architect teams, infrastructure specialists, and business leaders for review and feedback
• Engage directly with business customers to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions
• Collaborate across all organizational functions including product, program management, development, and infrastructure teams

GCP (Good Clinical Practices), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Software Development, Business Analysis, Technical Leadership, Technical Writing, Technical Presentation, Business Solutions, Business Development, * Required

• Senior-level Solutions Architect experience with a background in application development
• Proven end-to-end solutions architecture experience working with all stakeholder groups including non-technical audiences
• Architectural and technical expertise with cloud platforms, especially GCP and AWS (native services, cloud-agnostic solutions, container offerings)
• Experience with cloud and SaaS systems integration
• Demonstrable experience designing REST APIs that facilitate strong developer experience and simplify systems integration
• Experience designing systems that leverage Kafka for messaging and streaming
• Experience with both RDBMS and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB); understanding of benefits, trade-offs, normalization, denormalization, sharding, and other data-centric patterns
• Experience designing and developing complex systems using disciplined and rigorous approaches
• Strong skills in requirements analysis, estimation, systems design, application design, and testing
• Familiarity with popular design patterns
• Excellent collaboration, influencing, and consensus-building skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
• Ability to facilitate meetings with stakeholders, partners, and team members
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision; self-directed
• Strong team player with demonstrable experience delivering superior software products via Agile methodologies
• Experience with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies such as Java, JavaScript, and Node.js
• Experience with distributed computing architectures, including race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control
• Preferred
• Proven track record working as part of a team on large and complex systems
• Experience with SAFe Software Development Principles
• Experience with distributed caching solutions and understanding of factors that enable effective caching
• Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps practices