Solutions Architect

AHEAD

. Partner with team leadership and business stakeholders to understand goals, workflows, users, constraints, and success measures .

Posted 10/8/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $160,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in solution architecture, technical leadership, and the ability to translate business needs into technical requirements. Proficient in managing cross-squad dependencies and delivering enterprise systems with a strong focus on security, compliance, and architectural governance.

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AWS ExperiencePython ProficiencySoftware Architecture ExpertiseAgentic Patterns UnderstandingExcellent Communication Skills

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Hard Skills

TypeScript ProficiencyREST APIsGraphQL APIsEvent-Driven SystemsInfrastructure as CodeGenerative AI SolutionsEnterprise System IntegrationArchitecture Diagrams CreationNonfunctional Requirements DefinitionTechnical Leadership

Soft Skills

Influencing Without AuthorityCollaboration Across TeamsWritten CommunicationVerbal CommunicationProblem-Solving

Tools & Technologies

Amazon BedrockAgentCoreSalesforceServiceNowMicrosoft 365SharePointWorkflow EnginesMCP ToolsContainerized WorkloadsServerless Architectures

Certifications & Qualifications

Cloud CertificationsSecurity CertificationsAI CertificationsArchitecture Certifications

Industry Keywords

Enterprise SaaSTechnical GovernancePrivacy StandardsCompliance StandardsAuditability

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGraphQLJavaScriptPythonServiceNowTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner with team leadership and business stakeholders to understand goals, workflows, users, constraints, and success measures
Determine whether an agentic solution, deterministic workflow, existing capability, or no-AI solution is appropriate
Translate business needs into technical requirements, scope boundaries, delivery roadmaps, architectural options, measurable outcomes, and implementation plans
Explain technical implications and communicate tradeoffs across scope, cost, quality, latency, security, risk, and delivery speed
Own solution architecture for a portfolio of use cases and agentic applications delivered by several squads
Map end-to-end workflows, trigger events, human approvals, system interactions, failure paths, and operational handoffs
Define agent package structure, task graphs, orchestration patterns, and responsibilities among agents, deterministic code, tools, and platform services
Identify required systems, data sources, outputs, APIs, integrations, tools, and MCP capabilities
Manage dependencies across the portfolio of solutions
Produce architecture diagrams, decision records, implementation guidance, acceptance criteria, and nonfunctional requirements
Manage cross-squad dependencies, technical debt, duplicate capabilities, and reusable patterns, templates, connectors, and reference implementations
Collaborate with delivery teams to translate architecture into work packages, estimates, quality criteria, and delivery plans
Work hands-on with teams to understand solutions at a granular level
Apply architecture standards, approval controls, guardrails, and governance requirements
Maintain solution architecture for technical direction, engineering standards, capacity, and risk posture
Support developer onboarding and architecture education across squads
Coordinate decisions and dependencies across product, engineering, security, data, integrations, and business teams
Communicate architecture status, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs to technical and executive audiences
Directly manage engineers across multiple small, focused product squads

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience with AWS and cloud-hosted foundation models or agent platforms, such as Amazon Bedrock or AgentCore, or equivalent technologies
Proficiency in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, REST or GraphQL APIs, event-driven systems, serverless or containerized workloads, and infrastructure as code
Significant experience in software architecture, solutions architecture, technical leadership, or a similar role designing and delivering enterprise systems
Experience architecting and shipping production AI, generative AI, agentic, conversational, or intelligent-automation solutions
Strong understanding of agentic patterns, including orchestration, tool use, RAG, model selection, prompt and policy controls, human-in-the-loop approval, state and memory, evaluation, and fallback behavior
Experience integrating enterprise systems through APIs, events, connectors, workflow engines, or MCP-style tool patterns
Strong understanding of identity, authorization, data access, privacy, auditability, and secure-by-default design
Demonstrated ability to influence multiple teams or squads without relying solely on formal authority
Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain complex architecture and tradeoffs to business stakeholders and executives
Experience creating architecture diagrams, ADRs, technical requirements, nonfunctional requirements, and implementation guidance
Preferred: experience with enterprise SaaS and business systems such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, or similar platforms
Preferred: establishing reusable architecture standards, reference architectures, developer patterns, or platform governance
Preferred: leading architecture reviews involving security, compliance, privacy, or production risk
Preferred: relevant cloud, security, AI, or architecture certifications
Preferred: experience coordinating and managing the work of engineers against a timeline