Solutions Architect Solution Designer

Seeking a highly capable Solutions Architect with a strong background in backend engineering, scalable system design and architectural leadership, ideally gained within startup environments. You will be a principal technical architect responsible for designing, validating, and governing solutions across our platform. With a hands-on approach, you will create scalable, reusable, and secure architectural designs that align with the needs of a fast-growing business operating in a highly regulated industry. This role is ideal for a candidate who thrives in high-ownership environments and has previously operated as a sole Solutions Architect, confidently driving end-to-end architectural decision-making.

Key responsibilities of this role include:

• Support the design and evolution of scalable and reusable systems architecture across products and services.
• Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, product, compliance, and security teams to ensure solutions are robust and compliant.
• Translate business requirements into architectural designs that scale and adapt to multi-cloud environments and complex data landscapes.
• Act as a technical authority and guide for engineering teams, enforcing best practices in integration, data architecture, and performance.
• Provide technical direction on MuleSoft integrations and ensure robust API strategy and lifecycle management.
• Ensure architectural alignment with regulatory requirements
• Document architectural standards, patterns, and decision-making rationales.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and their fit with the business and technical ecosystem.

The Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a Solutions Architect in a startup or scale-up environment.
• Proven experience in designing systems to support massive scale, high availability, and modularity.
• Strong backend engineering foundation with fluency in distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented architectures, using asynchronous patterns.
• Hands-on experience with MuleSoft, including API-led connectivity, integration patterns, and Anypoint Platform.
• Deep familiarity with multi-cloud infrastructures?(min. AWS & Azure) and cloud-native architectural principles.
• Deep familiarity with designing complex database integrations (specifically MongoDB).
• Demonstrated success in environments requiring strict regulatory compliance.
• Ability to manage the architectural landscape solo, making informed decisions and justifying trade-offs effectively.
• Experience with complex database integrations, covering both relational and non-relational databases at large scale.

Preferred

• Practical experience with DevSecOps principles and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with containerisation (Kubernetes) and microservices patterns.
• Strong stakeholder communication and documentation skills.
• Experience mentoring or guiding development teams on architecture patterns and decisions. Comfort working in agile, cross-functional teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a pragmatic approach to design and implementation.

Role-Specific Tools & Technologies

• Core Tools: MuleSoft, REST APIs, MongoDB. Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes
• Success In This Role Looks Like
• Delivery of robust, scalable architecture that supports rapid product ideation and delivery, without compromising performance or compliance.
• High developer velocity due to reusable and well-documented architectural patterns.
• Seamless integration between systems and data sources across a multi-cloud environment.
• Recognition as an architectural authority within the organization, driving strategic technical decisions confidently.

Required Skills

Micro services, containerization Kubernetes, documentation, with MuleSoft, API, Infrastructure: AWS Azure Terraform Kubernetes, cloud native, Anypoint Platform, MongoDB, stakeholder communication, problem solving, DevSecOps, CI CD, APIs, AWS Azure, Tools: MuleSoft REST APIs MongoDB