Senior Solution Architect Cloud & Data Platforms

Cloud Analytics Technologies, LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in San Francisco seeks an experienced architect to lead the design and implementation of high-traffic web applications. The ideal candidate will guide engineering teams in creating scalable and secure solutions utilizing AWS services. Responsibilities include defining data models, overseeing application performance, and ensuring compliance with security protocols. Strong expertise in Node.js, React.js, and microservices architecture is essential. This role offers a competitive hourly rate based on experience, with the potential for contract extension.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS services and cloud architecture practices.
• Proficiency in modern application design principles.
• Strong understanding of security architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for web applications to ensure scalability.
• Design microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Guide teams on engineering best practices.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Microservices

Node.js

React.js

AWS Services

Security Compliance

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Memcached

Job description

Location: Duration: 24Months+ Extension

Hourly Rate: Depending on Experience (DOE)

Responsibilities

• 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.

AWS & Cloud Architecture

• 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
• 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 built-in 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:
• 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.

CLOUD ANALYTICS 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. CLOUD ANALYTICS 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 CLOUD ANALYTICS 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