Job Title: Technical Solutions Architect

Experience: 8-10 Years

Location: Remote

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Technical Solutions Architect to join our team. The ideal candidate will serve as the technical point of contact for our business development team, participating in pre-sales activities and ensuring the creation of professional proposals. You will leverage your expertise to influence technical discovery sessions, oversee development estimates, and contribute to building reusable components for faster product delivery. Your role will also involve making informed recommendations on technology choices and conducting training to elevate the technical skills of our team.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Help with the business development team by being their technical point of contact within the company.
• Participate in pre-sales activities by proposing technical architecture and solutions to potential clients.
• Prepare architecture diagrams to accompany proposals using professional tools and ensure that the proposals create a thoroughly professional impression of us as expert software engineering professionals.
• Possess and demonstrate depth in technical understanding and convince the clients to embark on building their products with us by participating in technical discovery and brainstorming sessions.
• Participate in brainstorming technical architecture for products under development.
• Oversee estimates suggested by the development team and ensure those are realistic.
• Work towards building a library of reusable components across different applications, which enables faster time-to-market for their products.
• Make recommendations of relational vs NoSQL databases for the use cases based on suitability.
• Make recommendations on the selection of suitable backend languages/frameworks like Django, Express, Go, etc.
• Suggest the suitable method of Backend APIs: Cloud functions, REST vs GraphQL vs Sockets for different use cases.
• Expertise in applying and architecting new technologies to digital solutions such as DevOps, multi-cloud, IoT technologies, and complex systems.
• AWS Solutions Architect or Google Cloud Architect.
• Be the organization-wide known and respected technical expert for crafting digital solutions.
• Conduct formal Solution Architect training and mentor others to think like solution architects and enable them to skill up in their careers.
• Essential to have mid-level knowledge of front-end technologies like React, Angular, Flutter to make the right architecture decisions.
• Knowledge of performance optimization techniques, backend and frontend.

What Makes You a Great Fit:

• Solid understanding of scalability and architecture of software products.
• Knowledge of various backend frameworks like Django, FastAPI, Flask, Node.js, Express.js, etc.
• Basic understanding of the suitability of various languages/frameworks for the intended purposes, e.g., where GoLang/Java would be better suited than Python.
• Sound understanding of database architectures, sharding, scaling up databases, scaling up backend systems.
• Familiarity with containerization concepts like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, articulation skills, and the ability to debate and discuss constructively.

Must-Have Skill Sets:

• 8+ years of experience as a software engineer building systems.
• 8-12 years of experience required.