As a Cloud Solutions Architect, you will join a highly motivated and experienced team and think through scaling our platform from a small pilot to enterprise scale. You will architect for tens of thousands of users on AWS, design the caching, multi-region and federation strategies that keep the platform fast and resilient across geographies, and ensure the architecture meets the security and access-control needs of sensitive content. We are looking for people who can bring a strong, consulting and solution-focused mindset and contribute to architectural decisions, best practices and get things done.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES- Architect the platform for enterprise scale (tens of thousands of users) on AWS.
- Evaluate scalability of the Postgres/Supabase backend; design caching tiers, multi-region, and global federation as needed.
- Own the load-testing strategy and responsiveness targets across geographies.
- Ensure the architecture meets security and access-control needs for sensitive content.
- Produce architecture diagrams, decision records, and technical standards.
- Guide and mentor engineers on cloud best practices and patterns.
- Define non-functional requirements (availability, resilience, cost, observability).
- Partner with security and compliance to meet enterprise controls.
- Support build-vs-buy decisions and technology evaluations.
QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field; 8+ years in engineering, with 3+ years in architecture.
- Senior cloud architecture experience on AWS; certification (e.g., Solutions Architect Professional) preferred.
- Experience designing high-scale, low-latency, multi-region distributed systems.
- Caching strategies, data federation, and performance/load testing.
- Security architecture, including role- and attribute-based access control (RBAC/ABAC).
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
- Strong grasp of networking, IAM, cost optimization, and observability tooling.
- Ability to work within an established enterprise engineering lifecycle and hit the ground running.
- Excellent stakeholder communication and technical leadership skills.
WHO YOU ARE- You think about how to scale, automate and operate, not just how to build a solution to an immediate problem
- You understand lean thinking
- You set high standards for code quality, performance/scalability and security and seek continuous improvement
- You have solid analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- You have a customer-first mindset and a devotion to customer service
- You engage and build positive internal and external client relationships, while managing multiple initiatives, often with competing priorities
- You have strong self-initiative, passion, interpersonal, oral and written communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work, influence and make an impact in a cross-functional environment with all levels of the organization
- You are responsive and thrive in a fast-paced, diverse, high-performance environment with rapidly changing business needs
- You actively seek out things outside your comfort zone with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies
- You have prior experience in consulting
- Prior experience and connections in the Life Sciences industry is preferred
Thank you for your interest in a career with Appnovation Technologies! Please note that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
