Technical Lead / Solution Architect

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Job Description:

Technical Lead / Solution Architect

Location: Remote (US)
Type: Full-time

Role Summary

We are seeking a Technical Lead / Solution Architect to serve as the chief engineer across modern full-stack and cloud technologies. You will set technical standards, guide engineering practices, ensure production reliability, and mentor teams while maintaining compliance and audit readiness.

Success in this role means: stable performance, fewer incidents, high code hygiene, predictable and audit-ready releases.

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture & Standards
• Author and maintain reference architecture & ADRs (React, Java/Node, PostgreSQL, OpenAPI, testing, security).
• Enforce standards through PR reviews, CI/CD gates, and automated checks.
• Reliability & Observability
• Define and track SLO/SLIs.
• Instrument with OpenTelemetry; build New Relic dashboards/alerts with runbooks.
• Integrations & Risk Management
• Lead spikes and proofs-of-concept for integrations, migrations, and performance-sensitive features.
• Document technical decisions and de-risk complex initiatives.
• API & Data Design
• Enforce contract-first APIs, versioning, and idempotency; maintain contract tests.
• Guide database design, indexing, partitioning, and connection pool optimization.
• Partner with DBAs on backups, disaster recovery, and performance tuning.
• Operational Readiness
• Own technical readiness: health checks, rollout/rollback criteria, error budgets, guardrails.
• Coordinate SAST/DAST/dependency scans and remediation evidence with DevSecOps.
• CI/CD & Quality Engineering
• Optimize pipelines for speed and reliability across unit, integration, and E2E tests.
• Integrate static analysis, code coverage, and security scans into CI/CD.
• Incident & Tech Debt Management
• Lead root cause analyses and drive systemic fixes with automation.
• Plan technical debt budgets and continuous pay-down strategies.
• Leadership & Mentorship
• Coach engineers on resilience, caching, backpressure, and observability.
• Forecast team skills and staffing needs.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years as Lead/Architect.
• Strong expertise in Java 11+/Spring or Node, React, and PostgreSQL.
• Deep knowledge of REST API design, testing strategies, and production reliability.
• Proven success in driving technical standards and operational stability.

Qualifications / Certifications

• Experience with ATO-style compliance evidence, system migrations, and performance tuning.
• Certifications (one or more ):
• AWS/Azure/GCP Architect
• (ISC)² CISSP/CCSP, CSSLP
• TOGAF
• Oracle OCP Java
• Spring Professional

Company DescriptionHIGH Growth, small business. Check us out at https://archsystemsinc.com/

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