Solution Architect

EPAM Systems; Mexico; On-site; PHP 7,524,000 - 11,285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Global career opportunities

Paid time off and sick leave

Upskilling, reskilling and certs

LinkedIn Learning access

Volunteer and community involvement

Job summary

EPAM 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.

Apply to help shape scalable, secure systems. In this role you will assess architectures, lead cross-team initiatives, and mentor pod leads, delivering ADRs, runbooks, and engineering

Qualifications

• 3+ years of solution architecture across distributed systems.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience with AWS-based architectures and security remediation.
• Experience with IaC and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong written communication for ADRs and runbooks.
• Proficiency in English (B2+/C1).

Responsibilities

• Assess and document current architecture across products and highlight risks.
• Validate architecture decisions for consistency with standards.
• Own security remediation backlog across services.
• Lead resilience hardening and reliability patterns.
• Drive cloud account separation and restrict non-production access.
• Oversee infrastructure-as-code practices and portfolio-wide standards.
• Guide platform initiatives like pipeline security scanning and metrics foundations.
• Mentor pod leads on architecture decision-making and risk assessment.
• Review AI coding assistant outputs for safety and correctness.

Skills

Solution architecture

Stakeholder leadership

Cross-team governance

AWS cloud architecture

Content Management Systems

Security engineering

Resilience engineering

Infrastructure-as-code

Event-driven architecture

Technical communication

AI coding assistants usage

Tools

Terraform

AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, Secrets Manager)

Datadog

Confluent Kafka

CI/CD tools

Job description

EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. We are committed to having a positive impact on our customers, our employees, and our communities. We embrace a dynamic and inclusive culture. Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to a myriad of innovative projects that deliver the most creative and cutting-edge solutions, and have an opportunity to continuously learn and grow. No matter where you are located, you will join a dedicated, creative, and diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potential.

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

We offer

• International projects with top brands
• Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
• Healthcare benefits
• Employee financial programs
• Paid time off and sick leave
• Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
• Global career opportunities
• Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
• EPAM Employee Groups
• Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn

EPAM is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.