What are the responsibilities and job description for the Solution Architect position at Apex 2000?
Solution Architect
Location: Houston, TX
Duration: 9-12 Month
JD
Area of Responsibility (Job duties encompassing one or more of the following)
Design and review end-to-end technical solutions aligned with business goals
Translate business requirements into architecture/technical blueprints
Lead system design across:
o Cloud
o Applications
o Data and integrations
Define architecture standards, patterns, and best practices
Ensure solutions meet:
o Security requirements
o Performance and scalability needs
o Compliance standards
Collaborate with:
o Architects
o Leads (Dev & QA)
o BA, Scrum Master, Developers
o DevOps engineers
o Security teams
o Stakeholders
Review technical designs and code (high-level)
Guide teams on technology selection and trade-offs
Support cost optimization and resource planning
Participate in incident resolution and root cause analysis
Required Qualifications
Masters s or bachelor s degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
At least 10 years of Information Technology experience
Preferred Skills
Amazon Web Services core services:
S3 (storage & data lakes)
EC2 (compute)
Lambda (serverless)
RDS / DynamoDB (databases)
API Gateway (API management)
SQS / SNS (messaging)
IAM (access control)
Designing scalable, secure, and cost-optimized architectures
Experience with VPC, networking, and security groups
Infrastructure as Code:
CloudFormation / Terraform
Frameworks & tools:
Boto3 (AWS SDK)
Writing clean, modular, and testable code
Experience with:
Logging & error handling, Unit testing
Serverless architecture design
Event-driven systems
Data engineering basics (Pandas, ETL design)
Performance optimization
Lucid chart or similar for technical diagrams/documents