Solution Architect

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ThoughtworksTechnology consulting
Location: USA, USA; No. of days in office: Fully RemoteFull-TimePrincipal
Salary220,000 - 423,000 USD per year
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Job Details

Required Skills
AWSGCPAzureCI/CDRESTful APIsMicroservices

Requirements

  • Experience designing and delivering complex technology solutions in enterprise environments, including engineering and delivery work.
  • Experience leading architecture and technical teams on live, billable client engagements from kickoff through production.
  • Track record leading modernization programs through delivery, such as monolith decomposition, cloud migration, platform replatforming, or legacy system replacement.
  • Deep experience across cloud, data, and enterprise platforms, including data and integration migration with minimal business disruption.
  • Strong grounding in domain-driven design, APIs, event-driven architecture, microservices, CI/CD, automated testing, and observability.
  • Hands-on familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Experience leading architecture for large pursuits or programs and seeing the work through to delivery.
  • Ability to connect business outcomes to architecture choices at financial, strategic, and technical levels.
  • Ability to communicate technology to C-suite stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical direction for modernization engagements from mobilization through stabilization.
  • Guide delivery teams by setting technical standards, reviewing designs and code, unblocking engineers, and coaching developers and architects.
  • Plan scope, migration sequencing, and technical risk with delivery managers, product leads, and client stakeholders.
  • Assess legacy applications, data, and infrastructure, then recommend modernization paths.
  • Define target architectures and incremental migration strategies, including strangler patterns and domain-driven decomposition.
  • Design application, integration, and data architectures using APIs, event-driven patterns, cloud-native platforms, and data migration approaches.
  • Validate feasibility through proofs of concept, thin-slice migrations, and prototypes.
  • Shape modernization opportunities, proposals, solution narratives, and executive presentations.
  • Build reusable architecture patterns and assets, mentor architects and engineers, and contribute to hiring and community.
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