Remote Lead Solutions Architect - Node.js & AWS Cloud

Confidential; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential is seeking a Lead Solutions Architect with deep expertise in Node.js and AWS to define the technical vision, architectural design, and implementation of enterprise applications. You will bridge business requirements with production engineering, owning high-level designs and guiding teams on best practices.

You will establish robust serverless and microservices architectures, ensure scalability, resilience, and security, and mentor senior engineers while overseeing architecture

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in lead architect roles.
• Deep mastery of AWS core services: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS, SQS/SNS, EventBridge, ECS, CloudFront, S3, IAM.
• IaC using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Relational and NoSQL data stores with caching (Redis).
• Security, identity management (OAuth2, OIDC, Cognito) and monitoring (CloudWatch, Datadog, OpenTelemetry).

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable, cloud-native architectures using Node.js and AWS services.
• Set engineering standards, code governance, API design patterns, and CI/CD practices.
• Define cloud topology with serverless and containerized workloads (Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, EKS, Fargate).
• Identify bottlenecks, security gaps, and cost efficiencies across backends.
• Oversee legacy integrations and microservice extensions in Java and Python as needed.
• Lead architecture reviews and mentor senior engineers.

Skills

Architectural leadership

AWS expertise

API design patterns

CI/CD practices

Security & compliance

Mentorship

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Confidential is seeking a Lead Solutions Architect with deep expertise in Node.js and AWS to define the technical vision, architectural design, and implementation of enterprise applications. You will bridge business requirements with production engineering, owning high-level designs and guiding teams on best practices.

You will establish robust serverless and microservices architectures, ensure scalability, resilience, and security, and mentor senior engineers while overseeing architecture