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