We are looking for a Solution Architect to act as the technical authority across a portfolio of digital products on a shared TypeScript/Node.js stack and AWS. You will guide architecture governance, security remediation, and resilience hardening while aligning engineering and stakeholders on technical direction. Apply to help shape scalable, secure systems.

Responsibilities

- Assess and document current architecture across the product portfolio, highlighting risks and improvement opportunities
- Validate architecture decisions from delivery pods to ensure consistency with shared standards
- Own and drive the security remediation backlog across services and platforms
- Lead resilience hardening by defining and validating reliability patterns and operational safeguards
- Drive cloud account separation and restrict non-production environment access
- Provide technical oversight for infrastructure-as-code practices and consolidation across pods
- Guide platform initiatives such as pipeline security scanning and operational metrics foundations
- Advise on event streaming reliability patterns for Kafka-based consumer services
- Run architecture walkthroughs during onboarding and act as the primary technical escalation point
- Communicate architecture trade-offs clearly to engineers and stakeholders
- Contribute to engineering standards, ADRs, and runbook documentation
- Mentor pod leads on architecture decision-making and technical risk assessment




- Apply AI coding assistants for architecture spikes and security pattern implementation while reviewing outputs for fit and safety

Requirements

- 3+ years of solution architecture experience across distributed systems
- Strong stakeholder leadership skills to align engineering and non-technical partners on trade-offs
- Proven project ownership experience driving cross-team initiatives and technical governance
- Strong cloud architecture skills with Amazon Web Services
- Strong content platform skills with Content Management Systems
- Strong security engineering skills covering authentication, authorization, secrets, and vulnerability remediation
- Strong resilience engineering skills using retries, circuit breakers, DLQs, and dependency health checks
- Strong infrastructure-as-code skills to review and guide portfolio-wide standards
- Strong event-driven architecture skills for streaming and consumer reliability patterns
- Strong written communication skills for ADRs, standards, and runbooks
- Ability to use AI coding assistants for spike work and evaluate generated code for correctness and security
- Advanced proficiency in English (B2+/C1)

Nice to have

- Hands-on experience with Terraform for multi-account cloud setups
- Experience with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, and Secrets Manager
- Experience designing systems that include AI/ML components or LLM-based workflows
- Experience with observability tooling such as Datadog
- Experience with Kafka platforms such as Confluent Kafka

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📌 Solution Architect (Colombia)
🏢 EPAM Systems
📍 Colombia