Solution Architect

Solution Architect
Location: Houston, TX
Duration: 9-12 Month

JD

Area of Responsibility (Job duties encompassing one or more of the following)

Design and review end-to-end technical solutions aligned with business goals

Translate business requirements into architecture/technical blueprints

Lead system design across:

o Cloud

o Applications

o Data and integrations

Define architecture standards, patterns, and best practices

Ensure solutions meet:

o Security requirements

o Performance and scalability needs

o Compliance standards

Collaborate with:

o Architects

o Leads (Dev & QA)

o BA, Scrum Master, Developers

o DevOps engineers

o Security teams

o Stakeholders

Review technical designs and code (high-level)

Guide teams on technology selection and trade-offs

Support cost optimization and resource planning

Participate in incident resolution and root cause analysis

Required Qualifications

Masters s or bachelor s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.

At least 10+ years of Information Technology experience

Preferred Skills

Amazon Web Services core services:

S3 (storage & data lakes)

EC2 (compute)

Lambda (serverless)

RDS / DynamoDB (databases)

API Gateway (API management)

SQS / SNS (messaging)

IAM (access control)

Designing scalable, secure, and cost-optimized architectures

Experience with VPC, networking, and security groups

Infrastructure as Code:

CloudFormation / Terraform

Frameworks & tools:

Boto3 (AWS SDK)

Writing clean, modular, and testable code

Experience with:

Logging & error handling, Unit testing

Serverless architecture design

Event-driven systems

Data engineering basics (Pandas, ETL design)

Performance optimization

Lucid chart or similar for technical diagrams/documents