Senior Solutions Architect

Role Overview

• Lead the design of architectures for new products, digital platforms and modernization of legacy systems.
• Translate business needs into scalable, secure, resilient and sustainable technical solutions.
• Model systems and architectures using the C4 model, covering context, containers, components and, when necessary, code-level details.
• Define architectural standards for microservices, integrations, APIs, messaging and inter-system communication.
• Design cloud-native solutions with consideration for high availability, elasticity, security, observability and cost optimization.
• Support the evolution of distributed, event-driven and reactive-system architectures.
• Act as a bridge between business areas, Product and development teams, ensuring alignment between strategy, architecture and implementation.
• Guide engineering teams in adopting technical best practices and architectural patterns.
• Support decisions related to technologies, frameworks, platforms, integrations and cloud services.
• Assess technical impacts, risks, dependencies, trade-offs and improvement opportunities.
• Participate in technical discussions, refinements, solution discovery and initiative planning.
• Support governance of APIs, integrations, microservices and security patterns.
• Contribute to strategies for observability, monitoring, logging, metrics and distributed tracing.
• Ensure proposed solutions are aligned with business objectives and the organization’s technical standards.
• Define architectures that are scalable, resilient, secure and prepared for future evolution.
• Technically lead architecture initiatives from conception through implementation follow-up.
• Promote best practices for distributed architecture, microservices, integration, security and cloud-native development.
• Establish guidelines for the use of APIs, messaging, events, observability and cloud platforms.
• Support legacy system modernization by proposing evolutionary and sustainable strategies.
• Ensure clarity in communicating architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Serve as a technical reference for backend development, infrastructure, security and product teams.
• Evaluate and document technical trade-offs, considering timelines, cost, complexity, risk and business value.
• Contribute to the standardization and evolution of enterprise architecture.
• Disseminate technical knowledge, best practices and architectural patterns across teams.
• Support the identification and mitigation of technical risks, bottlenecks, architectural debt and scalability issues.

Requirements

• Strong experience as a Solutions Architect, Software Architect, Tech Lead or similar role.
• Experience designing distributed architectures and microservices ecosystems.
• Advanced knowledge of architectural patterns, system integration and application modernization.
• Experience addressing eventual consistency, resilience, concurrency, scalability and fault tolerance challenges.
• Experience with event-driven architecture, messaging and Pub/Sub patterns.
• Practical knowledge of Apache Kafka or similar streaming and messaging technologies.
• Understanding of reactive systems principles and resilient architectures.
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure.
• Solid experience with Kubernetes, including clusters, pods, services, ingress, networking, scalability and workload management.
• Experience with containers and cloud-native architectures.
• Knowledge of the API lifecycle, including design, versioning, security, publishing, monitoring and governance.
• Experience with REST APIs, gRPC and/or GraphQL.
• Experience with API Gateway or API Management tools such as Kong, Apigee, WSO2 or similar.
• Practical knowledge of architecture-applied security, including IAM, authentication, authorization and access segregation.
• Experience with protocols and standards such as OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT and mTLS.
• Experience designing observability strategies based on metrics, logs and distributed tracing.
• Familiarity with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Datadog or similar.
• Relevant hands-on background in backend development with experience delivering applications to production.
• Experience with languages such as Java, Go, C#, Python or similar.
• Ability to produce technical documentation, architectural diagrams and decision records.
• Strong communication, systems thinking, critical thinking and technical decision-making skills.
• Preferred / Nice-to-have:
• Experience in high-availability, high-transaction-volume or mission-critical environments.
• Experience modernizing monoliths to microservices or event-driven architectures.
• Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design, Event Storming or complex domain modeling.
• Experience with hexagonal architecture, clean architecture or similar patterns.
• Knowledge of platform engineering, internal developer platforms or platform practices.
• Experience with FinOps and cost optimization in cloud environments.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps and integrating security into the development lifecycle.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitOps and infrastructure automation.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi or similar.
• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd or similar.
• Knowledge of relational databases, NoSQL, distributed caching and persistence strategies.
• Experience with data architecture, event streaming and integration with analytics pipelines.
• Certifications in cloud, architecture, Kubernetes or security.
• Experience in technical governance, architecture committees or defining corporate standards.

Tech Stack

• Apache
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform
• Grafana
• GraphQL
• GRPC
• Java
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• NoSQL
• Prometheus
• Python
• Terraform
• Go

Benefits

• Meal allowance
• Food allowance
• Remote work allowance
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Discount partnerships
• Partnerships with establishments and educational institutions
• Ongoing agile training
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