Senior Solutions Architect

Large incident response engagements can involve 20 or more responders working in shifts for weeks. Annual revenue from managed services has grown every year since 1995.

Job summary:

Cedartrack is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to join a small, steady team. We're looking for someone who has built systems themselves and can still go deep in a technical review. This role sits between sales, delivery and engineering. You'll scope solutions, write architecture documents and stay involved through implementation. Contract role, full-time hours, paid in USD at the end of each month. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Review designs from engineering teams and flag risks early.
• Estimate effort and help shape statements of work with delivery managers.
• Guide delivery teams through implementation and answer design questions.
• Gather business and technical requirements and turn them into solution designs.
• Track technical debt and propose remediation roadmaps.
• Build proofs of concept to test risky assumptions.
• Produce architecture diagrams, decision records and high-level designs.

Skills and experience:

• 5+ years in software engineering, infrastructure or consulting, with at least three in an architecture role.
• Strong diagramming and documentation skills (Lucidchart, draw, C4 model)
• Experience designing distributed systems, APIs and data flows.
• Track record estimating projects and working within client budgets.
• Comfortable presenting to both executives and engineers.
• Understanding of security, identity and networking as they apply to architecture.

Preferred:

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification.
• Data platform design with Snowflake or Databricks.
• Kubernetes and microservices architecture.

Perks and benefits:

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• Annual rate review.

We are reviewing applications as they arrive, so apply early.

The posting will close once we have a strong shortlist.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Cedartrack.