Solutions Architect

Proximity Works; India; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best-in-class salary

Proximity Talks

Continuous learning

High-impact projects

Job summary

Proximity is a trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for leading Sports, Media and Entertainment brands. We are seeking a Solutions Architect to design architectures, guide delivery, and lead cross-functional teams from discovery to production at scale.

You will work across AWS/GCP/Azure, microservices, data pipelines, and AI-enabled systems, driving credible proposals and ensuring architectural fidelity and performance for global clients.

Qualifications

• 12-15 years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a solutions architect, technical architect or tech lead role.
• Strong hands-on background in at least one backend stack and solid grasp of frontend/mobile architectures.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS preferred), containers and orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Proven experience designing distributed, high-traffic systems: microservices, caching, CDNs, queues/streams, and SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Strong understanding of system design trade-offs: scalability, latency, availability, security and cost.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions, writing architecture documents, and producing estimates and proposals.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present to C-level stakeholders and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery with clients to understand goals and constraints, and translate them into clear solution architectures.
• Design scalable, secure and cost-efficient cloud architectures for web, mobile, TV and backend platforms.
• Own architecture decisions across microservices, APIs, data pipelines, event-driven systems and third-party integrations.
• Build effort estimates, technical proposals and delivery roadmaps, and support pre-sales conversations.
• Guide engineering teams through implementation, ensuring alignment with architecture and quality standards.
• Drive non-functional excellence: performance, high availability, observability, security and compliance at scale.
• Evaluate and prototype emerging technologies, especially GenAI/LLM, and recommend value-driven use cases.

Skills

Java/Kotlin

Go

Node.js

Python

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

As a Solutions Architect, you will design the technical blueprint behind some of the world's largest sports, media and entertainment platforms. You will work at the meeting point of client business goals and engineering execution: shaping architectures, de-risking delivery, and guiding teams from first conversation to production at scale. If you enjoy solving hard, ambiguous problems, explaining complex systems simply, and building AI-first products used by millions, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery with clients to understand business goals, existing systems and constraints, and turn them into clear solution architectures.
• Design scalable, secure and cost-efficient cloud architectures (AWS/GCP/Azure) for web, mobile, TV and backend platforms.
• Own architecture decisions across microservices, APIs, data pipelines, event-driven systems and integrations with third-party platforms.
• Build effort estimates, technical proposals and delivery roadmaps, and support pre-sales conversations with credible, well-reasoned solutions.
• Guide engineering teams through implementation, reviewing designs and code to make sure what's built matches the architecture and quality bar.
• Drive non-functional excellence: performance, high availability, observability, security and compliance at massive scale.
• Evaluate and prototype emerging technologies, especially GenAI/LLM and agentic systems, and recommend where they create real business value.
• Define architecture standards, reusable reference architectures and best practices across Proximity's engagements.
• Mentor engineers and tech leads, and contribute to knowledge-sharing through Proximity Talks, blogs and thought leadership.

Requirements

• 12-15 years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a solutions architect, technical architect or tech lead role.
• Strong hands-on background in at least one backend stack (Java/Kotlin, Go, Node.js or Python) and a solid grasp of frontend and mobile architectures.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS preferred), containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar).
• Proven experience designing distributed, high-traffic systems: microservices, caching, CDNs, queues/streams (Kafka, SQS/PubSub), and SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Strong understanding of system design trade-offs: scalability, latency, availability, security and cost.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions, writing architecture documents, and producing estimates and proposals.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present to both C-level stakeholders and engineering teams.
• Ability to break down complex problems into simple, practical solutions that serve business needs.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and across multiple clients, time zones and priorities.

Benefits

• Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly
• Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners
• Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development
• High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients

About Us

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media and Entertainment companies in the world! We're headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has created and grown high-impact, scalable products used by 370 million daily users, with a total net worth of $45.7 billion among our client companies. We are Proximity — a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting edge tech, at scale. Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company's success will be huge. You'll have the chance to work with experienced leaders who have built and led multiple tech, product and design teams. Here's a quick guide to getting to know us better: Watch our CEO, Hardik Jagda, tell you all about Proximity. Read about Proximity's values and meet some of our Proxonauts here. Explore our website, blog, and the design wing — Studio Proximity. Get behind-the-scenes with us on Instagram! Follow @ProxWrks and @H.Jagda