Solutions Architect

PortX, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

401(k)

Equity package

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

PortX, Inc. in Seattle, WA, is seeking a Solutions Architect to lead discovery, design, and delivery of complex integration projects on our unified platform for modern banking.

The hybrid, full-time role involves collaborating with customers to translate requirements into scalable, secure solutions and providing architectural governance. The ideal candidate has enterprise integration experience, strong Java skills, and hands-on experience with AWS, containers, Spring Boot, and modern CI/CD

Qualifications

• Strong enterprise integration implementation experience, API’s, ESB’s etc.
• Solid Java development skills and experience, as main language
• Hands-on skills and experience leveraging AI productivity tools
• Solid skills and experience with containerization
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot framework
• Experience with consuming web services
• Hands-on experience with deploying to AWS platform
• Hands-on experience with GIT and Maven
• Knowledge and experience with Banking or Payments is an advantage

Responsibilities

• Lead the discovery, scoping, solution design, and estimation of integration projects, ensuring solutions are scalable, supportable, and aligned with customer and business objectives.
• Act as the SME for the PortX integration platform and end-to-end integration processes, providing technical guidance across the project lifecycle.
• Engage directly with customers throughout pre-sales and delivery, building trusted relationships, understanding business requirements, and translating them into effective solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural governance, ensuring implementation quality, adherence to best practices, and alignment with established standards.
• Mentor and coach both PortX and customer development teams, enabling them to deliver high-quality integrations while developing their technical capabilities.
• Establish and mature delivery squads that can independently design, build, and support PortX integrations with progressively less reliance on Solutions Architects.
• Facilitate customer workshops, architecture reviews, whiteboarding sessions, and executive presentations to communicate solution designs and technical strategy clearly.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance integration patterns, delivery methodologies, tooling, documentation, and reusable assets.
• Lead by example through hands-on problem solving, collaboration, and a customer-first mindset.

Skills

Enterprise integration

Java

AI productivity tools

Containerization

Spring Boot

Web services

AWS

Git

Maven

Banking/Payments knowledge

Tools

Git

Maven

Docker

Job description

Solutions Architect

Seattle, WA

$180K/yr - $200K/yr

Hybrid - Full-time

PortX is a leading AI-powered data and integration company for modern banking, bringing systems together and data to life through our unified platform for modern integration, governed customer 360 data, and next-generation payments.

We're in strong growth mode, with new opportunities for Solutions Architects, working in a high-impact environment, with a culture that's open and rewarding, so it's a great time to join our growing team. In addition to a competitive basic salary, benefits include an attractive equity package, insurance (medical, dental, vision), unlimited PTO, and 401(k).

Solutions Architect responsibilities include:

• Lead the discovery, scoping, solution design, and estimation of integration projects, ensuring solutions are scalable, supportable, and aligned with customer and business objectives.

• Act as the subject matter expert (SME) for the PortX integration platform and end-to-end integration processes, providing technical guidance across the project lifecycle.

• Engage directly with customers throughout both pre-sales and delivery, building trusted relationships, understanding business requirements, and translating them into effective solutions.

• Provide technical leadership and architectural governance, ensuring implementation quality, adherence to best practices, and alignment with established standards.

• Mentor and coach both PortX and customer development teams, enabling them to deliver high-quality integrations while developing their technical capabilities.

• Establish and mature delivery squads that can independently design, build, and support PortX integrations with progressively less reliance on Solutions Architects.

• Facilitate customer workshops, architecture reviews, whiteboarding sessions, and executive presentations to communicate solution designs and technical strategy clearly.

• Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance integration patterns, delivery methodologies, tooling, documentation, and reusable assets.

• Lead by example through hands-on problem solving, collaboration, and a customer-first mindset.

Ideal technical skills and experience include:

• Strong enterprise integration implementation experience, API’s, ESB’s etc.

• Solid Java development skills and experience, as main language

• Hands-on skills and experience leveraging AI productivity tools

• Solid skills and experience with containerization

• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot framework

• Experience with consuming web services

• Hands-on experience with deploying to AWS platform

• Hands-on experience with GIT and Maven

• Knowledge and experience with Banking or Payments is an advantage

PortX is an ego-free, purpose-driven environment, and you’ll fit right in here if you have a strong sense of ownership in your work, you value excellent customer experience, and you flourish in an environment where things move quickly. We’re looking forward to hearing from you.

Featured Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Vision insurance

• Dental insurance

• 401(k)

PortX complies with industry-standard
controls and is SOC2 certified.