Solutions Architect, Software Engineering

ClearScale, a leading AWS Premier Consulting Partner, empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of the cloud through a wide range of services, including cloud consulting, architecture design, migration, automation, application development, and managed services. We help Fortune 500 enterprises, mid-sized businesses, 1 and startups across diverse industries like Healthcare, Finance, and Technology succeed with ambitious and transformative cloud projects. Our expertise lies in architecting, developing, and launching innovative and sophisticated solutions using the latest cutting-edge cloud technologies. Due to our continued growth and the increasing demand for our modernization and cloud-native development capabilities, we are seeking a talented and experienced AWS Hosted/Modernization Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. If you are passionate about building and modernizing applications on the AWS platform, tackling complex engineering challenges, and working with a team of top-tier cloud experts, this is your opportunity to make a significant impact.  

What You’ll Do:

• Lead sessions with business and technical experts to deeply understand their needs, solicit and document requirements
• Consult and advise engineers, architects and executives, help define the right choice of technology stack for the solution of business problems
• Create SOWs and/or provide a structured and complete informational background to the engineering team
• Design and articulate major aspects of highly scalable, reliable, and performant technical software solutions that leverage AWS cloud platform to automate business solutions
• Handle potential trade-offs occurring during the implementation phase, make decisions and suggest the right course of action, establish patterns
• Handle the strategic vision, align roadmaps and requirements. Build and maintain technical trusted advisor relationships with all levels in an organization, from technical experts to senior executives
• Accelerate innovation by detecting high-impact, repeatable solutions for enterprises,  iteratively deploying them, and representing ClearScale capabilities in AWS Cloud Solutions to customers and the community
• Authorship of technical publications, including blog entries, case studies, and ebooks

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering/scientific field or 5+ years of designing and developing services or applications within an organization
• 5+ years consulting experience and track record of helping customers with their needs or comparable experience working with internal customers in a product company
• Understanding fundamentals of different project management methodologies and frameworks (covering Agile, Lean Development, and classical waterfall) applicable for custom software engineering
• 8+ years of experience building enterprise software solutions
• 4+ years of hands-on experience working with AWS cloud platform
• Experience designing and implementing modern cloud-based applications using event-driven and NoSQL technologies (e.g. Lambda, Kafka, Kinesis, DynamoDB, S3, ActiveMQ, SQS, EventBridge, Redis/Memcached)
• Experience with containerised environments and/or serverless applications, understanding of architecture patterns, area of applicability, restrictions, and typical problems
• Experience building fault-tolerant and no-downtime distributed cloud systems
• Experience using and adapting to new technologies
• Comfort with assuming high-profile leadership roles in demanding, highly visible customer situations
• Strong listening, written and oral communication skills

Ideally, You Also Have:

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification or ability to acquire it in 3 months
• Experience with enterprise workloads migration to AWS platform
• Experience working with secured data (e.g. PHI, classified data)
• Deep understanding of column, key-value, document or graph databases
• Experience giving public technical presentations

Why You'll Love Architecting Modern Solutions Here:

• Be at the forefront of cloud innovation, building and modernizing applications using the latest AWS technologies.
• Collaborate with a team of highly skilled and passionate cloud experts.
• Work on a diverse range of challenging and impactful projects for leading enterprises.
• Have a direct influence on the architecture and development of critical cloud solutions.
• Thrive in a remote-first culture that values technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Enjoy opportunities for professional growth and development within the rapidly evolving cloud landscape.