Provide strategic technical leadership to design and deliver secure, scalable cloud and hybrid application and infrastructure solutions. Define end-to-end architectures, lead cloud migrations, modernize infrastructure, design microservices and API integrations, ensure security/compliance, and produce architecture artifacts and governance documentation while collaborating with stakeholders and delivery teams.
This is a remote position.
Overview
This is a remote consulting opportunity supporting a government client.
Subcontractor Opportunity: This is not an employee position. The successful consultant must be incorporated and able to provide services through their corporation.
Role Summary
The Solution Architect – Cloud, Applications & Infrastructure provides strategic and technical leadership for designing and delivering secure, scalable, and resilient solutions across enterprise environments.
The role is responsible for defining end-to-end solution architectures that support cloud adoption, application modernization, and infrastructure transformation while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and maintain solution architecture designs across applications, infrastructure, and cloud platforms
- Develop end-to-end architectures integrating business requirements, technical constraints, and enterprise standards
- Lead cloud migration strategies for applications and infrastructure transitioning from on-premise environments
- Design hybrid and cloud-native architectures leveraging platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and GCP
- Oversee modernization of infrastructure components including compute, storage, and networking
- Design application architectures supporting microservices, APIs, and distributed systems
- Define integration patterns to enable interoperability between systems and platforms
- Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, and regulatory requirements
- Design for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, developers, and infrastructure teams to translate requirements into solutions
- Maintain and organize solution architecture documentation and governance artifacts
- Assess and optimize solutions for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
Key Deliverables
- Solution architecture designs and technical blueprints
- Cloud migration strategies and execution plans
- Integration patterns and application architecture artifacts
- Architecture review outputs and governance documentation
- Performance and optimization assessments
- Enterprise repository documentation and artifacts
Requirements
Qualifications
Education and Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field preferred
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent certification preferred
- AWS or Google Cloud certifications considered an asset
- Additional certifications in networking, security, or infrastructure considered an asset
Experience
- Proven experience as a Solution Architect with expertise in cloud and on-premise environments
- Experience designing and delivering cloud-based applications and infrastructure solutions
- Hands-on development experience using technologies such as Java, Python, .NET, or Node.js
- Experience with application integration, APIs, and microservices architectures
- Strong experience migrating complex applications from on-premise to public cloud platforms
- Understanding of networking, virtualization, storage, and security concepts
- Experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives from design through delivery
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