Senior Solution Architect Cloud & Data Platforms

MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES LLC is seeking a Senior Solution Architect specialized in Cloud & Data Platforms to lead end-to-end architecture for high-traffic applications. The role involves designing microservices architectures with Node.js and ensuring performance optimization across systems.

Applicants should have significant experience with AWS and a strong foundation in security practices. This position offers an opportunity to mentor engineering teams and work in a dynamic environment with potential for growth.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in architecture and solution design for web applications.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and security practices.
• Ability to mentor and guide engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for high-traffic web applications.
• Design scalable cloud solutions using AWS.
• Ensure application performance through optimization.
• Own security across application, data, and network layers.
• Guide engineering teams on best practices.

Skills

Architecture patterns

Cloud solutions design

Node.js

React.js

PostgreSQL

AWS services

Security architecture

Technical mentoring

Job description

Senior Solution Architect Cloud & Data Platforms

Job ID: J53046

Location: San Francisco, CA

Duration: 24 Months + Extension

Hourly Rate: Depending on Experience (DOE)

Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, L2-EAD, GC-EAD

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Employment Type: W-2, 1099, C2C

Architecture & Solution Design

• Lead end-to-end architecture for high-traffic, customer-facing web applications.
• Design scalable microservices-based and event-driven architectures using Node.js, REST APIs, and GraphQL.
• Architect single-page applications (SPA) using React.js, modular component design, and optimized client-side performance.
• Define relational and non-relational data models optimized for high-volume OLTP transactions on PostgreSQL.
• Create architecture blueprints covering application layers, data flows, integration, observability, and deployment topology.

Cloud Architecture on AWS

• Design distributed, fault-tolerant, and secure solutions using key AWS services:
• VPC, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups for network isolation
• ALB/NLB, Auto Scaling, ECS/EKS, Lambda for compute
• RDS PostgreSQL, Aurora, ElastiCache for data
• API Gateway, CloudFront, S3 for global-scale delivery
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and high availability for systems processing large transaction volumes.
• Review and optimize cloud costs, architecture fitness, and performance.

Application Performance & Scalability

• Design solutions with builtin load balancing, auto-scaling, queueing, caching, and failover patterns.
• Architect for low latency, high throughput, and predictable system behavior under peak load.
• Ensure appropriate use of CDN, caching layers (Redis/Memcached), and async processing.

Security & Compliance

• Own the security architecture across application, data, and network layers:
• IAM design & RBAC
• JWT/OAuth2 authentication
• Data encryption in transit & rest
• Secure VPC patterns
• Work with InfoSec teams on threat modeling, vulnerability resolution, and cloud security posture.

Technical Leadership

• Guide engineering teams on architecture patterns, design reviews, best practices, and code quality.
• Collaborate with product owners, UX, DevOps, and QA to ensure cohesive delivery.
• Mentor developers and junior architects; evangelize modern engineering and cloud-native principles.

Equal Opportunity Employer

MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES LLC is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disability and veterans, (M/F/D/V). Hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, citizenship/immigration status, veteran status or any other protected status. MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES LLC will not make any posting or employment decision that does not comply with applicable laws relating to labor and employment, equal opportunity, employment eligibility requirements or related matters. Nor will MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES LLC require in a posting or otherwise U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency in the U.S. as a condition of employment except as necessary to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, state, or local government contract.