Solution Architect/ AI

Intone Inc; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Intone Inc. seeks a senior Solutions Architect with strong application development background to drive architectural vision for remote, contract engagements.

You will translate business needs into scalable technical designs, work with product and development teams, and deliver architecture artifacts across complex programs. The role emphasizes cloud proficiency (GCP/AWS), REST API design, distributed systems, and collaboration with multiple stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Senior-level Solutions Architect with application development background.
• Experience interacting with business customers to translate needs into technical solutions.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS) including native services and cloud/SaaS integration.
• Designs REST APIs for strong developer experience and easy integration.
• Experience with Kafka, RDBMS/NoSQL, data-centric patterns.

Responsibilities

• Translate broad directions into detailed technical strategy and roadmaps.
• Partner with Product Owners, Analysts, and leads to refine requirements.
• Collaborate with domain leads to vet cross-domain solutions.
• Deliver solution artifacts, sketches, and documentation.
• Engage with business customers to define solutions meeting needs.
• Lead architecture reviews with stakeholders and teams.

Skills

Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS)

REST APIs design

Kafka messaging

Java/JavaScript/Node.js

Distributed systems

RDBMS/NoSQL databases

Agile software development

Architectural design

Requirements analysis

DevOps awareness

Tools

REST API tooling

Cloud-native patterns

Job description

We are seeking a senior-level Solution Architect with an application development background for a contract position. This role is remote and offers a 6+ month engagement, providing the opportunity to drive architectural vision and design across complex, end-to- end technology initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Receive epic and feature assignments from train architects and translate general direction into detailed technical strategy
• Partner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Development technical leads to refine and deeply understand requirements
• Collaborate with Solution Domain Lead architects to seek guidance and vet solutions that impact other domains
• Work with integration architects to deliver solution artifacts including sketches, presentations, and comprehensive documentation
• Continuously build and refine business and systems subject matter expertise
• Identify and apply appropriate architecture patterns; develop new patterns when addressing novel challenges
• Present solution sketches and architectural proposals to stakeholders—including architect teams, Infrastructure Subject Matter Experts, and business leaders—for review and feedback
• Engage directly with business customers to understand business needs and work across all stakeholders to define solutions that address those needs
• Facilitate meetings with stakeholders, partners, and team members to align on technical direction and resolve conflicts

Qualifications

Required

• Proven experience as a senior-level, end-to-end Solutions Architect with a foundation in application development (not infrastructure architecture)
• Direct experience interacting with business customers to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions
• Architectural and technical expertise with cloud platforms, particularly GCP and AWS, including native services, cloud-agnostic solutions, containers, and cloud/SaaS systems integration
• Experience designing REST APIs that provide strong developer experience and simplify systems integration
• Experience designing systems that leverage Kafka for messaging and streaming
• Experience with RDBMS and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB); understanding of benefits and trade-offs between relational and non-relational approaches, including normalization, denormalization, sharding, and other data-centric patterns
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing complex systems with a disciplined and rigorous approach
• Strong capabilities in requirements analysis, estimation, systems and application design, and testing
• Familiarity with popular design patterns
• Excellent collaboration, influencing, and consensus-building skills; ability to work effectively with individuals across all functions (product, program, development, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision; self-directed work style
• Experience delivering superior software products as a team player using Agile methodologies
• Experience working on Agile teams
• Hands-on experience with modern languages, frameworks, and technologies including Java, JavaScript, Node.js, messaging queuing infrastructures, and cloud and on-premise infrastructure and services
• Experience with distributed computing architectures, including understanding of race conditions, parallelism, and concurrency control

Preferred

• Proven track record working as part of a team on large and complex systems
• Experience with SAFe Software Development Principles
• Experience with distributed caching solutions and understanding of factors that enable effective caching strategies
• Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps practices