Senior Solutions Architect - API & Microservices Lead

Covetus; United States; On-site; USD 165,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Covetus is seeking a Senior Solution Architect for a 12-month contract (W2) in the United States. The role requires 15+ years of software engineering with 7+ years in design/architecture and hands-on API/microservices delivery.

You will own complex solution architectures, define API specifications, and guide multiple engineering teams across data, integrations, and services. Proficiency in .NET, AWS, and OpenAPI/JSON Schema is essential.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with at least 7 years in design/architecture, including recent hands-on Solution Architecture.
• Strong ownership and accountability with initiative from design through implementation.
• Deep experience designing and delivering enterprise APIs and microservices architectures.
• Ability to create solution architecture, API specifications, integration designs, and technical direction for multiple teams.
• Strong experience with .NET / Microsoft technologies, including modernization of legacy applications.
• Experience with legacy modernization, breaking functionality into APIs/microservices.
• Strong database design skills; PostgreSQL preferred.
• Fluency with OpenAPI 3.x and JSON Schema as design artifacts.
• Ability to coordinate across apps, APIs, data, integrations and multiple workstreams.
• Experience providing architectural leadership across multiple development teams.
• Strong communication skills with technical leadership and engineering teams.
• Clear technical writing: design docs, decision records, tickets with reproduction evidence.
• AI-driven ways of working; comfortable with GitHub Copilot and Claude suite.

Skills

API design

Solution architecture leadership

OpenAPI 3.x

AWS architecture

Communication & documentation

AI-assisted development judgment

Tools

AWS API Gateway

PostgreSQL (Aurora/RDS)

Amazon ECS

Route 53

WAF / ACM

JSON Schema

Claude / GitHub Copilot

Job description

Covetus is seeking a Senior Solution Architect for a 12-month contract (W2) in the United States. The role requires 15+ years of software engineering with 7+ years in design/architecture and hands-on API/microservices delivery.

You will own complex solution architectures, define API specifications, and guide multiple engineering teams across data, integrations, and services. Proficiency in .NET, AWS, and OpenAPI/JSON Schema is essential.