Senior Solutions Architect

We currently have a career opportunity for a Senior Solutions Architect to join our team.

Job Overview:

A Senior Solutions Architect is expected to be knowledgeable in two or more technologies within (a given Solutions/Practice area). The Solutions Architect may or may not have a programming background, but will have expert infrastructure architecture, client presales / presentation, team management and thought leadership skills.

You will provide best-fit architectural solutions for one or more projects; you will assist in defining scope and sizing of work; and anchor Proof of Concept developments. You will provide solution architecture for the business problem, platform integration with third party services, designing and developing complex features for clients' business needs. You will collaborate with some of the best talent in the industry to create and implement innovative high quality solutions, participate in Sales and various pursuits focused on our clients' business needs.

You will also contribute in a variety of roles in thought leadership, mentorship, systems analysis, architecture, design, configuration, testing, debugging, and documentation. You will challenge your leading edge solutions, consultative and business skills through the diversity of work in multiple industry domains. This role is considered part of the Business Unit Senior Leadership team and may mentor junior architects and other delivery team members.

Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

Own and aggressively drive forward specific areas of technology architecture. Provide architectural solutions/designs to project execution teams for implementation.

• Define and drive architecture for secure, resilient, event-driven, high-performance, data-intensive applications across 2-3 engineering teams.
• Establish standards for secure data pipeline architectures with cloud-native development, using AWS, OCP/Kubernetes, and one of Kafka, MQ, and pub/sub etc.
• Champion security best practices
• Experience modernizing legacy systems, including applying the strangulation pattern for incremental migration.
• Ensure secure API design and documentation using OpenAPI and related standards.
• Extensive experience documenting functional and non-functional requirements, and using visualization tools/techniques (Lucid, Miro, Visio, C4, UML, etc.).
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and operations leadership to shape technical strategy and roadmap.
• Evaluate technology choices and lead occasional proof-of-concept initiatives.
• Present and defend architecture designs through multiple architecture, API, and security review boards.

• 10+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years in architecture roles.
• Proven experience architecting secure, event-driven, distributed, and data-intensive platforms on AWS.
• Deep understanding of domain-driven design, cloud data services, messaging systems (Kafka, MQ, pub/sub), and security best practices.
• Expertise in encryption (in transit and at rest), TLS, OpenAPI, and secure API design.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
• Experience guiding multiple teams and driving architectural consistency.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and support data-informed task execution. 
• Familiarity with AI-enhanced platforms is a plus. 

• A solid understanding of AI capabilities and limitations including ethical considerations is expected

  Preferred:

• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, AWS data services, enterprise DevOps practices, and security compliance frameworks.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our App Modernization team helps businesses transform legacy systems and build future-ready applications. We deliver end-to-end solutions—combining cloud migration, custom application development, multi-c