Solution Architect - AWS Integration & API Gateway

We are seeking a Solution Architect to design and lead a central email gateway. It will sit between the client's commerce platform, its middleware (enterprise service bus) and a new email service provider, and will carry all business-critical transactional email, such as order, shipping, refund and account notifications. The gateway offers two integration models:

• a pass-through API for systems that are ready to use the new provider directly
• a backward-compatible API that mimics the legacy provider, so existing systems only need to change an endpoint

The Architect will own the AWS target architecture, the versioned API contracts, a configuration-driven mapping model, and the resilience design needed to make sure no email is lost or sent twice. The role leads a small cross-functional team on a short build window, drives technical decisions with the client's architects, and owns cutover readiness and early-life support.

Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Own the AWS target architecture across edge, API Gateway, private networking, load-balancing and ECS Fargate integration, containerized compute, eventing, audit and data flows
• Define versioned OpenAPI contracts for the pass-through and backward-compatible APIs
• Design a configuration-driven mapping engine for campaign, field and error-code translation
• Design resilience patterns: timeouts, retries with backoff, circuit breaker, idempotency and dead-letter queue (DLQ) handling

• Design the Security & Observability Framework

Technical Leadership

• Lead discovery and capture existing integration contracts from live traffic
• Set engineering standards and review all code, including AI-generated code
• Guide developers, DevOps and QA on design, testability and performance
• Establish AI-assisted application-building workflows using AI approved 
   

Stakeholder & Delivery

• Present options and recommendations to the client's architecture and platform teams
• Coordinate the ecommerce, middleware and email provider teams through integration and SIT
• Own cutover planning, go/no-go criteria and early-life support
   

Security & Compliance

• Ensure OAuth2 machine-to-machine authentication, encryption, least-privilege IAM and PII masking
• Align audit retention and the data purge approach with GDPR/CCPA requirements

Qualifications

Required Skills & Competencies

• Strong solution architecture experience on AWS: API Gateway, ECS/Fargate, SQS, EventBridge, Secrets Manager, IAM and KMS 
• Configuration management using AppConfig or DynamoDB; observability with CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry/ADOT or X-Ray; CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code design.
• Proven design of API gateways or enterprise integration layers for high-volume transactional systems
• Hands-on with Node.js/TypeScript or Java/Spring Boot microservices
• Strong grasp of resilience patterns, idempotency and event-driven design
• OpenAPI-first design and contract testing practices
• Excellent stakeholder communication and technical leadership

Good-to-Have

• Exposure to email service provider platforms; retail transactional email, ESB/middleware platforms
• Fastify; Akamai WAF; Terraform or AWS CDK; OpenSearch/ELK-based operational search.
• AWS Solutions Architect – Professional certification

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant software engineering experience with solution architecture and hands-on technical leadership.
• B.E./B.Tech/MCA or equivalent
• AWS architecture certification is desirable.

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