Solution Architect

Description

Summary: Seeking a Solution Architect to act as a technical authority, governing architecture decisions, leading security and resilience improvements, and aligning teams on technical direction across a digital product portfolio on a TypeScript/Node.js stack and AWS platform. Highlights: 1. Govern architecture decisions and drive security/resilience improvements. 2. Shape scalable, secure systems on AWS and TypeScript/Node.js. 3. Mentor pod leads and provide technical oversight across products. 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 platform. You will govern architecture decisions, lead security and resilience improvements, and align teams and stakeholders on technical direction. Apply to help shape scalable, secure systems. **Responsibilities** * Assess and document current architecture across the product portfolio, highlighting gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities * Validate architecture decisions across delivery pods to ensure consistency with portfolio\-wide standards * Own and drive the security remediation backlog, including authentication, authorization, injection risks, secrets handling, and endpoint exposure * Lead resilience hardening by defining and rolling out reliability patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, dead\-letter queues, and dependency health checks * Drive cloud account separation and restrict non\-production access to reduce blast radius and improve governance * Provide technical oversight for infrastructure\-as\-code practices and promote consistent, secure Terraform patterns * Guide CI/CD improvements with security scanning and delivery metrics instrumentation * Advise on event streaming reliability patterns for Kafka\-based consumer services * Run architecture walkthroughs during onboarding and act as the primary technical escalation point across pods * Communicate architecture trade\-offs clearly and tailor messages to different stakeholder groups * Contribute to engineering standards, ADRs, and runbook documentation * Mentor pod leads on architecture decision\-making and technical risk assessment * Use AI coding assistants for spikes, code generation, and security pattern implementation, and review AI output for correctness and security **Requirements** * 2\+ years of solution architecture experience in distributed systems on Amazon Web Services * Hands\-on experience with Content Management Systems * Strong stakeholder management skills to align engineering and product leadership * Solid project leadership skills across multiple delivery teams or pods * Advanced cloud security knowledge covering IAM, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation * Strong infrastructure\-as\-code knowledge using Terraform * Strong resilience engineering skills with retries, circuit breakers, and queue\-based patterns * Strong documentation skills for ADRs, standards, and runbooks * Upper\-Intermediate English proficiency (B2\) * Strong communication skills to explain trade\-offs to technical and non\-technical audiences **Nice to have** * Experience with AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q, or Claude Code * Experience designing systems that include AI/ML components or LLM\-based workflows * Experience with Kafka\-based consumer services and reliability patterns * Experience with Next.js and NestJS stacks * Experience with observability tooling such as Datadog **We offer** * International projects with top brands * Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers * Healthcare benefits * Employee financial programs * Paid time off and sick leave * Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses * Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000\+ courses * Global career opportunities * Volunteer and community involvement opportunities * EPAM Employee Groups * Award\-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn