[Hiring] Senior AWS Software Solutions Architect @QTech

Role Description

• Our client is seeking an experienced and seasoned, visionary AWS Software Solutions Architect to design and deliver secure, scalable, and resilient cloud and hybrid solutions.
• This role combines deep hands-on technical expertise with architectural leadership-driving solution design, guiding engineering teams, and ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• This is a highly consultative, client-facing role: you will lead discovery workshops with customers, advise stakeholders, and create pragmatic architecture recommendations that balance value, risk, delivery timelines, and total cost of ownership.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution architecture for cloud and hybrid initiatives, translating business requirements into secure, scalable AWS designs.
• Lead architecture workshops and collaborate effectively with diverse teams (engineering, product, security, data, operations, and vendors) to drive alignment and delivery.
• Facilitate stakeholder discovery (current-state assessments, constraints, NFRs, and pain points) and translate findings into target-state architecture, options, and trade-off recommendations.
• Serve as a customer-facing technical lead, building trust with client stakeholders, managing expectations, and guiding decisions through clear options and documented trade-offs.
• Develop architecture deliverables such as solution blueprints, integration approach papers, reference designs, and migration roadmaps, present recommendations to technical and executive audiences.
• Support delivery planning by contributing to scope definition, high-level estimates, implementation sequencing, and risk/assumption tracking; partner with teams to ensure architectures are actionable and buildable.
• Partner with account and delivery leadership to support pre-sales activities, including solutioning, effort estimates, and statements of work (SOW), ensuring a clear scope-to-architecture-to-delivery path.
• Act as a trusted advisor, coaching teams on cloud best practices and establishing architecture governance (principles, patterns, guardrails, and decision records) across multiple workstreams.
• Architect event-driven integrations using Kafka (including topics, schemas, consumer groups, and delivery semantics) and streaming/messaging patterns to support high-throughput systems.
• Architect complex integrations across legacy and modern APIs (REST, GraphQL, SOAP), including API lifecycle management, versioning, governance, and performance/reliability best practices.
• Architect and lead modernization and migration initiatives defining target-state architecture, transition patterns, and phased delivery roadmaps.
• Define integration patterns for on-premises and cloud-based databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DynamoDB, Aurora/RDS), including replication, migration, performance, and resiliency considerations.
• Partner with application, data, and platform teams to standardize DevSecOps practices (CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and release governance).
• Ensure solutions meet non-functional requirements (security, compliance, performance, availability, cost optimization) and conduct architecture reviews and risk assessments.
• Establish observability standards (logging, metrics, tracing) and operational readiness practices, including SLOs/SLAs and incident response runbooks.
• Contribute to strategic planning and roadmap development, supporting estimation, prioritization, and technical decision-making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 12+ years of experience in software engineering and solution architecture for enterprise systems.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience building Java and Spring Boot microservices, including designing APIs and integrations in enterprise environments.
• Proven experience successfully working with diverse, cross-functional teams to architect and deliver complex integrations across legacy systems and modern APIs.
• Strong integration background across REST/GraphQL/SOAP APIs, API gateways, authentication/authorization patterns (OAuth2/OIDC), and contract-driven development.
• Strong experience designing and integrating event-driven systems using Kafka, including producer/consumer patterns, schema management, and reliability/performance tuning.
• Strong experience integrating with on-premises and cloud-based databases, including data modeling, migration/replication strategies, and performance/resiliency design.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS) as part of modern cloud solution design.
• Strong understanding of network and application security, including IAM, encryption, secrets management, least privilege, and threat modeling.
• Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant systems, including DR strategies, multi-region considerations, and capacity planning.
• Demonstrated client consulting and advisory experience, including leading customer workshops, stakeholder interviews, requirements-to-architecture translation, and executive-ready communication.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decisions and explain architecture to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Experience

• AWS Certification (Solutions Architect - Professional) or equivalent cloud architecture certification.
• Client-facing consulting experience delivering architecture assessments, cloud strategies, and target-state designs-producing polished customer deliverables and presenting to both technical leaders and executives.
• Experience supporting pre-sales and delivery initiation, including solutioning for RFP/RFI responses, scoping, statements of work (SOW), assumptions/risks, and high-level estimates.
• Background in a consulting firm, systems integrator, or cloud partner environment, delivering across multiple client engagements and balancing competing priorities.
• Experience with hybrid connectivity patterns (VPN/Direct Connect), identity integration, and enterprise integration platforms.
• Experience implementing API governance and standards (e.g., OpenAPI, versioning strategies, developer portals) across multiple teams.
• Experience with data streaming ecosystems (Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, stream processing) and production operations at scale.