Solutions Architect
American Chemical Society5 months ago
Washington, DC, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$160k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement end-to-end AWS architectures for editorial platforms and AI-enabled products.
- Define cloud-native and AI-first solution patterns using containers, serverless technologies, managed AI services, and API-driven designs.
- Develop proofs of concept, reference implementations, and architectural spikes.
- Partner with engineering, data, DevOps, and CloudOps teams to make solutions deployable, operable, and production-ready.
- Architect and integrate AI-driven capabilities for content intelligence, automation, personalization, and generative AI use cases.
- Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, reliability, performance, and cost-optimization requirements.
- Conduct architecture reviews, troubleshoot complex issues, and mentor engineers through hands-on guidance.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, or solution architecture.
- Experience architecting complex solutions with AWS managed services and AI/ML tools.
- Experience building cloud-native platforms using containers, serverless technologies, and API-driven designs.
- Working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, applied pragmatically.
- Experience with AI/ML or generative AI integrations, including model consumption and managed AI services.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and DevOps practices, including Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
- Preferred experience with editorial or content-driven platforms, publishing workflows, metadata, XML, or HTML.
- AWS Solutions Architect certification is preferred.
- TOGAF or equivalent architecture certification is preferred.
- Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, and intelligent workflows is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule based in the Washington, DC office, with onsite work two days per week and remote work for the balance of the week.
- Paid vacation leave, paid sick leave, and paid holidays.
- Health insurance, flexible spending account or health care savings account, dental insurance, life insurance, and vision insurance.
- Retirement benefits and short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Four weeks of work-from-anywhere leave.
- Additional benefits may apply based on skills, experience, and location.