What are the responsibilities and job description for the Solutions Architect position at VLink Inc?
Company Profile:
VLink, founded in 2006, is a leading global provider of software engineering services with next-gen technologies and best-in-class talent. Our Headquarters are in the U.S, and we have offices in 7 countries from North America-Europe to APAC, with expansion plans in the Middle East. With over 1,000 employees working globally, VLink has helped SMBs, and large enterprises achieve their business goals, and gained the trust of Fortune-250 companies. VLink is ‘Great Place to Work? Certified™' and has been a consistent winner as- Best Places to Work in CT. Trust, collaboration, and accountability are the three elements that are at the core of VLink’s work culture. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits and the opportunity for growth.
Job Title: Solutions Architect
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, Onsite
Job Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Description
We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead the architecture and solution design for enterprise-scale document management and content services platforms supporting a major banking organization. This role will be responsible for defining scalable, secure, and compliant technology solutions across enterprise document management ecosystems, integrating modern digital platforms with legacy enterprise systems. This role will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, engineering teams, infrastructure teams, security teams, and enterprise architects to deliver strategic document management and content modernization initiatives.
The candidate for this role will be expected to be onsite five days a week at our client site in Pittsburgh PA.
Your future duties and responsibilities
- Define end-to-end solution architecture for enterprise document management and content services platforms
- Design scalable, secure, and highly available solutions supporting:
- Document ingestion
- Content management
- Workflow orchestration
- Search and retrieval
- Customer-facing document services
- Develop architecture blueprints, integration patterns, and technical roadmaps
- Lead architecture discussions and provide technical direction to development teams
- Define integration strategies across:
- Core banking systems
- Customer applications
- Workflow/BPM platforms
- APIs and enterprise services
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards, security policies, and compliance requirements
- Drive modernization initiatives across legacy and cloud-native platforms
- Evaluate and recommend technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and DevOps teams to ensure operational scalability and resiliency
- Support performance optimization, disaster recovery, and operational readiness planning
- Provide governance, architecture reviews, and technical risk assessments
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 10 years of strong experience designing enterprise-scale distributed systems and applications
- 10 years of expertise in
- Solution architecture
- System integration
- API-driven architectures
- Event-driven architectures
- Strong understanding of Microservices architecture, Cloud-native design principles & Enterprise integration patterns
- 8 years of experience designing High-volume transaction processing systems & Scalable content and document management solutions
- Strong technical background in: Java / Spring boot, REST APIs and Integration services & Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, DB2)
- Good understanding of Kafka / Event streaming platforms, CI/CD and DevOps practices
- Experience with Linux/Unix environments, Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP
- Understanding of Hybrid cloud architectures, Infrastructure scalability disaster recovery
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience leading cross-functional technical teams
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Experience conducting architecture reviews and technical governance
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Desired Skills:
- Experience in banking or financial services industry
- Familiarity with Document ingestion and retrieval, metadata management, search and indexing and document management lifecycle
- Knowledge of Security frameworks and identity/access management & Observability and monitoring platforms
Skills:
- Cloud Computing
- Database
- Full Stack Development
- Full Stack Development
- Infrastructure
- Java
- Solutions Architecture
Employment Practices:
EEO, ADA, FMLA Compliant
VLink is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. Applicant information will be handled in accordance with VLink's privacy policy.