Software Solutions Designer

About the Job:

Role: Design and implement software solutions for key projects.
Level: L3/L4
Experience: 8+ years of expertise in designing and implementing software solutions.

• Oversee solution architecture and design, delivering accurate estimates and coordinating with architects and designers across solution, infrastructure, and data disciplines to address business challenges.
• Collaborate with delivery teams, production support, and shared services partners to ensure alignment of solution strategies and estimates.
• Establish technical best practices, standards, and guidelines, ensuring alignment with overarching business objectives.
• Mentor and guide a team of engineers, fostering their professional growth and providing support in navigating technical challenges.
• Partner closely with product managers, business analysts, and stakeholders to understand project requirements and transform them into viable technical solutions.
• Engage in Scrum team activities, providing architectural direction, and guiding technical teams through complex challenges while ensuring best practice adherence.
• Continuously assess and recommend tools, platforms, and frameworks to meet evolving project needs with high compatibility and efficiency.
• Promote modular design principles for independent component development and testing, applying best security practices such as least privilege and data protection.
• Conduct quality and security assurance, develop metrics for code quality, and ensure adherence to automated code review processes.
• Conduct code and design reviews to ensure compliance with architecture standards.
• Mentor engineering teams on design, architecture, and emerging technologies.
• Collaborate with AI/ML teams to integrate AI components into enterprise solutions.
• Design and recommend GenAI-enabled applications using LLMs, vector databases, and prompt engineering.
• Provide leadership in database modernization, assisting in the migration from legacy RDBMS platforms to cloud-native databases or NoSQL solutions, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.
• Lead incremental modernization strategies for legacy applications, including refactoring, containerization, and microservices adoption.

Bachelor's/master's in computer science, engineering, or related field.

Strong programming experience in .NET / Python / Java / Node.js.

In-depth experience designing and implementing software solutions using cloud-native technologies.

Hands-on experience in at least one major cloud platform (AWS or Azure).

Experience in Microservices, Micro Frontend, API Gateway, and Messaging Implementation.

Understanding of GenAI apps (LLMs, embeddings, prompt chaining), ML workflows, or vector databases.

Good understanding of REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and integration patterns.

AWS/Azure Solution Architect Certification, TOGAF, or similar framework certifications.

Experience with database modernization migrating from legacy relational systems to managed cloud databases or alternative modern platforms.

Familiarity with schema optimization, database versioning, and migration tools (e.g., Flyway, Liquibase).

Awareness of cloud security, compliance, and cost optimization.

Experience with application modernization strategies, including containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and incremental refactoring approaches.

Ability to integrate security considerations throughout the SDLC, including threat modeling and secure coding practices.

Experience conducting security assessments (SAST, DAST, vulnerability scanning).

Experience in brownfield modernization upgrading legacy platforms without major business disruption.

Exposure to high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) architecture for business-critical systems.

Understanding of event sourcing and CQRS patterns in distributed systems.

Prior experience in large-scale modernization projects within the environmental services, logistics, or utilities sector.