Senior AWS Gen AI Solution Architect — Retrieval Platform

Solvd, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Solvd, Inc. seeks a principal Solution Architect to own the technical design and outcomes of an AWS-native retrieval platform engagement. You will define architecture, security controls, API contracts, and a cost model, and defend decisions with client IT, Security, and the Agent Assist provider.

This is a principal-level role where you lead design decisions, coordinate with client teams, and drive the project through hypercare and readiness reviews.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software or cloud engineering, including 5+ years designing production systems on AWS.
• Hands-on with Bedrock Knowledge Bases data sources and sync, OpenSearch Serverless, API Gateway, Lambda, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch.

Responsibilities

• Produce the target architecture for Bedrock Knowledge Bases with OpenSearch Serverless, S3 landing zone, and the retrieval API on API Gateway and Lambda.
• Define the security design: IAM roles with least privilege, encryption at rest and in transit, VPC posture, secrets handling, and entitlement-aware permissions for retrieval.
• Own the retrieval API contract and integration blueprint the Agent Assist provider builds against, including request/response schema, versioning, authentication, rate limits, error semantics, and citation payload.
• Decide and document chunking, embedding model, hybrid search, and metadata filtering strategy, including cost model for OpenSearch Serverless capacity and embeddings on ingest.
• Run end-of-Phase-1 re-baselining checkpoints and validate inventoried content against the design; flag change-control triggers.
• Cross-review taxonomy and metadata model to ensure correct indexing filters.
• Author the operations design with CloudWatch metrics/alarms for health, ingestion failures, latency, error rate, OpenSearch capacity, and retrieval quality; review runbooks before handover.
• Lead the transition readiness review in weeks 9–10 and sign the readiness checklist with the client.

Skills

AWS

Bedrock

OpenSearch

API design

Security design

IAM policy

CloudWatch

Tools

API Gateway

Lambda

KMS

Job description

Solvd, Inc. seeks a principal Solution Architect to own the technical design and outcomes of an AWS-native retrieval platform engagement. You will define architecture, security controls, API contracts, and a cost model, and defend decisions with client IT, Security, and the Agent Assist provider.

This is a principal-level role where you lead design decisions, coordinate with client teams, and drive the project through hypercare and readiness reviews.