Solutions Architect

Role Summary

The Solution Architect is a handsâon technical leader responsible for designing building and evolving cloudânative AIâfirst solutions for editorial and digital publishing platforms. This role actively participates in architecture prototyping and implementation on AWS while guiding teams toward scalable secure and modern solutions aligned with enterprise standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Handsâon experience design and implementing solutions for complex business challenges. And implement endâtoâend AWS architectures for editorial platforms and AIâenabled products.
• Define and implement cloudânative and AIâfirst patterns (microservices EKS serverless managed AI services).
• Actively contribute to proofs of concept reference implementations and architectural spikes.
• Work closely with engineering data DevOps and CloudOps teams to ensure solutions are deployable operable and productionâready.
• Architect and integrate AIâdriven capabilities such as content intelligence automation personalization and GenAI use cases.
• Ensure solutions meet security compliance reliability performance and cost optimization requirements.
• Perform architecture reviews troubleshoot complex issues and mentor engineers through handsâon guidance.

Required Qualifications

• 12 years of experience in software engineering cloud engineering or solution architecture.
• Well rounded experience in Architecting complex skills utilizing Modern technologies such as AWS managed services and AI /ML tools.
• Proven experience building cloudânative platforms using containers serverless and APIâdriven designs.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF or similar) applied pragmaticallynot just documentation.
• Exposure to AI/ML or GenAI integrations including model consumption and managed AI services.
• Experience with IaC and DevOps practices (Terraform CI/CD pipelines).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with editorial or contentâdriven platforms (publishing workflows metadata XML/HTML).
• AWS Solutions Architect certification.
• TOGAF or equivalent architecture certification.
• Familiarity with RAG vector databases and intelligent workflows.

This role is based in our Washington DC officeand a reasonable rate of compensation for this position is between $160000-$180000 per year. ACS employees work a hybrid schedule consisting of working onsite two days per work week as decided by functional area. The balance of the week is open to working remotely though employees are always welcome onsite each day if they choose.

ACS currently provides the following benefits for this position: paid vacation leave paid sick leave paid holidays health insurance flexible spending account or health care savings account dental insurance life insurance vision insurance retirement benefits short- and long-term disability and 4-week work from anywhere; each benefit is subject to the terms of the applicable program. Additional benefits may apply based on skills experience and location.

Any actual offer of employment reflecting the total compensation package and benefits will be made in the sole discretion of ACS. ACS reserves the right to amend or modify its employment benefits and compensation structure at any time.

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