Senior Solutions Architect

Role Overview

• Lead the design of architectures for new products, digital platforms and the 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 system-to-system communication.
• Design cloud-native solutions considering 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 opportunities for improvement.
• Participate in technical discussions, refinements, solution discovery and initiative planning.
• Support the governance of APIs, integrations, microservices and security standards.
• Contribute to observability strategies, monitoring, logging, metrics and distributed tracing.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Solutions Architect, Software Architect, Tech Lead or similar role.
• Experience designing distributed architectures and microservices-based 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.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka or similar streaming and messaging technologies.
• Knowledge of reactive systems principles and resilient architectures.
• Experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, including concepts such as 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 security applied to architecture, 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 backend development experience, with experience deploying applications to production.
• Experience with languages such as Java, Go, C#, Python or similar.
• Ability to produce technical documentation, architectural diagrams and decision records.
• Good communication skills, systems thinking, critical thinking and the ability to make technical decisions.

Tech Stack

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

Benefits

• Meal allowance
• Grocery allowance
• Remote work stipend
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Discount partnerships
• Agreements with retailers and educational institutions
• Recurring agile training
• Alura subscriptions