Solution Architect

Job Title: Solution Architect

Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Job Type: Full Time

Department: Engineering Management

About Simform:

Simform is a premier digital engineering company specialising in Cloud, Data, AI/ML, and Experience Engineering to create seamless digital experiences and scalable products. Simform has strong capabilities across Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, and Databricks. With a presence in 6 countries, Simform primarily serves North America, the UK, and the Northern European market. Simform is well-recognised as one of the most reputed employers in the region, having created a thriving work culture with a high work-life balance that gives a sense of freedom and opportunity to grow.

Role Overview 

We are looking for a passionate and experienced Solutions Architect with a diverse background in backend technologies to lead and mentor large engineering teams at Simform. You should have a strong grasp of software architecture principles, backend systems, and cloud platforms, along with proven experience in leading development teams and driving technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities 

• Design, validate, and optimize technical architectures across diverse tech stacks and domains.

• Explain technical solutions to development teams and assist with implementation and troubleshooting, acting as the technical custodian of projects.

• Provide technical leadership to teams during project execution.

• Maintain a hands-on approach to technology, with the ability to perform code analysis, reviews, audits, and troubleshooting.

• Ensure adherence to best practices and enforce secure coding standards across teams.

• Advocate for process improvements, technical proof of concepts (PoCs), and the reduction of technical debt.

• Serve as a bridge between technical and business stakeholders.

• Provide technical support for pre-sales initiatives and client interactions.

• Define and implement architectural standards, guidelines, principles, guardrails, and governance practices.

• Contribute to internal initiatives such as technical training, building accelerators, managing technical audits, and creating reusable components.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical experience with a broad range of backend technologies and in-depth expertise in at least one backend language (e.g. Node.js, Python, .NET, PHP, etc.) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP).

• Strong knowledge of system design principles including security, scalability, caching, availability, fault tolerance, performance optimization, logging, alerting and monitoring. 

• Hands-on expertise in at least one backend tech stack, with the ability to conduct code reviews, audits, and deep troubleshooting.

• Proven experience in designing and building robust, secure, and highly optimized production-grade software systems at scale. 

• In-depth, hands-on understanding of cloud services—compute, storage, networking, security—and cloud-native solution design on AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines including tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar.

• Strong interpersonal skills and stakeholder management capabilities.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; capable of mentoring, presenting to stakeholders, and influencing senior developers and other stakeholders. 

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally with  technical and non-technical, internal and external, distributed teams to ensure end-to-end delivery.

• Solution-oriented mindset with the ability to drive technical execution in the face of ambiguity and constraints.

• Experience in creating architectural documentation and artifacts such as HLD, LLD, architecture diagrams, entity relationship diagrams (ERDs), process flows, and sequence diagrams.

• Working knowledge of frontend technologies (e.g., React, Angular) and how they integrate with backend and cloud components.

• Strong adaptability and a continuous learning mindset in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

• Certifications in cloud architecture (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent) are a plus.

Skills

System Design, Solution Architecture, Technical Architecture, Azure, AWS, Python/Node.js/.NET/PHP/, DevOps, CICD, Cloud-Native Design, Microservices, Event Driven and Serverless Architecture

Preferred Skills

• Certifications in cloud architecture (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or equivalent) are a plus.

• Exposure in diverse range of projects including cutting edge technologies, such as Data Engineering, AI or ML. 

• Knowledge of various testing tools and frameworks, e.g. JMeter, LoadRunner or equivalent. 

• Experience with SaaS platforms or multi-tenant architecture is a strong plus.

Why Join Us:

• Young Team, Thriving Culture

• Flat-hierarchical, friendly, engineering-oriented, and growth-focused culture.

• Well-balanced learning and growth opportunities

• Free health insurance.

• Office facilities with a game zone, in-office kitchen with affordable lunch service, and free snacks.

• Sponsorship for certifications/events and library service.

• Flexible work timing, leaves for life events, WFH and hybrid options