Solution Architect

EPAM Systems, Inc.; México; A distancia; MXN 900.000 - 1.400.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Solution Architect to act as the technical authority across a portfolio of digital products on a shared TypeScript/Node.js stack and AWS.

You will guide architecture governance, security remediation, and resilience hardening while aligning engineering and stakeholders on technical direction. Responsibilities include documenting current architecture, validating decisions, driving remediation, and leading platform initiatives.

Formación

• 3+ years of solution architecture experience across distributed systems.
• Strong stakeholder leadership to align engineering and non-technical partners on trade-offs.
• Proven project ownership driving cross-team initiatives and governance.
• Strong cloud architecture skills with AWS.
• Strong content platform skills with CMS.
• Strong security engineering skills including authentication, authorization, secrets, and remediation.
• Strong resilience engineering skills with retries, circuit breakers, DLQs, and health checks.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code skills to review portfolio-wide standards.

Responsabilidades

• Assess and document current architecture across the product portfolio, highlighting risks and improvement opportunities.
• Validate architecture decisions to ensure consistency with shared standards.
• Own and drive the security remediation backlog across services and platforms.
• Lead resilience hardening by defining and validating reliability patterns and safeguards.
• Drive cloud account separation and restrict non-production environment access.
• Provide technical oversight for infrastructure-as-code practices across pods.
• Guide platform initiatives such as pipeline security scanning and metrics foundations.
• Advise on event streaming reliability patterns for Kafka-based services.
• Run architecture walkthroughs during onboarding and act as primary technical escalation point.
• Communicate architecture trade-offs clearly to engineers and stakeholders.
• Contribute to ADRs and runbook documentation.

Conocimientos

Solution architecture

Stakeholder leadership

Cross-team alignment

Technical governance

Herramientas

Terraform

Datadog

Confluent Kafka

AWS

Descripción del empleo

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. You will guide architecture governance, security remediation, and resilience hardening while aligning engineering and stakeholders on technical direction. Apply to help shape scalable, secure systems.

Responsibilities

• Assess and document current architecture across the product portfolio, highlighting risks and improvement opportunities
• Validate architecture decisions from delivery pods to ensure consistency with shared standards
• Own and drive the security remediation backlog across services and platforms
• Lead resilience hardening by defining and validating reliability patterns and operational safeguards
• Drive cloud account separation and restrict non-production environment access
• Provide technical oversight for infrastructure-as-code practices and consolidation across pods
• Guide platform initiatives such as pipeline security scanning and operational metrics foundations
• Advise on event streaming reliability patterns for Kafka-based consumer services
• Run architecture walkthroughs during onboarding and act as the primary technical escalation point
• Communicate architecture trade-offs clearly to engineers and stakeholders
• Contribute to engineering standards, ADRs, and runbook documentation
• Mentor pod leads on architecture decision-making and technical risk assessment
• Apply AI coding assistants for architecture spikes and security pattern implementation while reviewing outputs for fit and safety

Requirements

• 3+ years of solution architecture experience across distributed systems
• Strong stakeholder leadership skills to align engineering and non-technical partners on trade-offs
• Proven project ownership experience driving cross-team initiatives and technical governance
• Strong cloud architecture skills with Amazon Web Services
• Strong content platform skills with Content Management Systems
• Strong security engineering skills covering authentication, authorization, secrets, and vulnerability remediation
• Strong resilience engineering skills using retries, circuit breakers, DLQs, and dependency health checks
• Strong infrastructure-as-code skills to review and guide portfolio-wide standards
• Strong event-driven architecture skills for streaming and consumer reliability patterns
• Strong written communication skills for ADRs, standards, and runbooks
• Ability to use AI coding assistants for spike work and evaluate generated code for correctness and security
• Advanced proficiency in English (B2+/C1)

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Terraform for multi-account cloud setups
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, and Secrets Manager
• Experience designing systems that include AI/ML components or LLM-based workflows
• Experience with observability tooling such as Datadog
• Experience with Kafka platforms such as Confluent Kafka