Senior Solution Architect — Cloud-Native & Microservices

SFE; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

SFE seeks an experienced Enterprise/Solution Architect with 15–20 years of IT experience to lead architecture across complex, distributed systems and microservices. You will drive cloud-native design, high availability, DR, and scalable solutions while aligning with enterprise standards and business goals.

You will mentor teams, define deployment models, and oversee architecture reviews, ensuring robust security, data flow, and operational readiness across projects.

Qualifications

• 15–20 years of IT experience with substantial enterprise/solution architecture background.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise application architecture and modern distributed systems.
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Proficiency in cloud-native design, HA, DR, scalability, performance and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end solution architecture aligned with standards and business objectives.
• Create architecture diagrams, integration designs, data flows and deployment models.
• Lead architecture and design reviews with engineering, cybersecurity, data, and operations teams.
• Provide technical direction to development teams through design, implementation, testing and production support.
• Review designs for alignment with approved architecture and document trade-offs, risks and dependencies.
• Establish reusable patterns and engineering guidelines to promote consistency.
• Support effort estimation, planning, dependency management and release readiness.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Distributed systems

Microservices

Event-driven architecture

Cloud-native design

High availability

Disaster recovery

Scalability

Performance

Security & compliance

Architecture diagrams

Job description

SFE seeks an experienced Enterprise/Solution Architect with 15–20 years of IT experience to lead architecture across complex, distributed systems and microservices. You will drive cloud-native design, high availability, DR, and scalable solutions while aligning with enterprise standards and business goals.

You will mentor teams, define deployment models, and oversee architecture reviews, ensuring robust security, data flow, and operational readiness across projects.