Infinity Quest
Solutions Architect
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About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to design and lead the implementation of scalable, cloud-native systems on AWS. You will work across engineering, product, and business stakeholders to define architecture for distributed microservices platforms powered by event-driven patterns — translating complex requirements into resilient, production-grade solutions.
This is a high-impact, highly collaborative role. You will serve as the technical authority on architecture decisions, shaping standards and patterns that engineering teams follow across the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture Design & Governance
- Define end-to-end system architectures aligned with business goals and engineering capabilities.
- Establish and enforce design principles, architectural standards, and best practices.
- Conduct architecture reviews, threat modelling sessions, and design critiques.
- Own and maintain technical roadmaps across multiple product domains.
Microservices Strategy
- Lead service decomposition efforts using Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles.
- Define domain boundaries, bounded contexts, and inter-service communication contracts.
- Design RESTful, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs with a focus on backward compatibility and versioning.
- Set patterns for service resilience: circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and rate limiting.
- Establish observability standards: distributed tracing, structured logging, and metrics.
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Event-Driven Architecture
- Design event streaming and async messaging systems using Apache Kafka, Amazon SQS/SNS, EventBridge, and Kinesis.
- Define and enforce event schema standards and schema evolution strategies.
- Implement event sourcing, CQRS, and saga orchestration patterns where appropriate.
- Govern event-driven data flows across bounded contexts and third-party integrations.
AWS Cloud Engineering
- Design AWS infrastructure using EKS, Lambda, ECS/Fargate, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, and VPC networking.
- Define Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform and/or AWS CDK.
- Oversee multi-account AWS organisation structure, landing zones, and guardrails (AWS Control Tower).
- Lead cloud migration and modernisation initiatives from on-premise to AWS.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner with engineering leads, product managers, and C-suite to align technical strategy with business objectives.
- Present architecture proposals, trade-off analyses, and risk assessments to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Act as a trusted advisor to external clients or partners where required.
- Mentor and upskill senior engineers on architecture patterns and cloud-native practices.
Security, Reliability & Cost
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- Embed security into architecture from day one: IAM, KMS, WAF, AWS Shield, and secrets management.
- Design for reliability using multi-AZ deployments, DR strategies, and defined SLAs/SLOs.
- Drive FinOps practices: right-sizing, reserved capacity planning, and cloud cost optimisation.
Skills & Experience
Required
- 8+ years in software engineering, 3+ in architecture roles
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Deep AWS expertise across core compute, storage, and networking services
- Experience with service mesh (Istio, AWS App Mesh, Linkerd)
- Microservices design: DDD, API design, service mesh, resilience patterns
- Data architecture: streaming pipelines, data warehousing, data lakes
- Event-driven patterns: Kafka, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, Kinesis
- Serverless-first architecture and Lambda-optimised design patterns
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and/or AWS CDK
- Multi-cloud or hybrid cloud architecture exposure
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS
- FinOps tooling: AWS Cost Explorer, Kubecost, CloudHealth
- CI/CD pipelines and DevOps culture and practices
- Experience mentoring and developing senior engineering talent
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Familiarity with zero-trust networking and advanced IAM patterns
Nice to Have
- None listed in the original text
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