Solutions Architect

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Solutions Architect based in Italy. As a Solutions Architect, you will shape the technical direction of client projects and internal products while combining deep engineering expertise with strong business judgment. You will design scalable, cloud-native architectures and help determine the right technologies, priorities, and delivery strategies. The role is highly hands-on, with opportunities to prototype, review code, and solve complex technical challenges. You will also contribute to product roadmaps, pre-sales discussions, project scoping, and strategic technology decisions. Working closely with clients, executives, tech leads, and senior engineers, you will translate business objectives into practical technical solutions. This is a fully remote role suited to an experienced technical leader who is comfortable operating across engineering, product, and business environments. Accountabilities: - Share ownership of technical strategy, architectural standards, engineering priorities, and technology direction. - Own technical and product roadmaps for internal products, prioritizing initiatives according to user needs and business value. - Bring a product-focused approach to client projects by challenging requirements, identifying better solutions, and prioritizing work that delivers meaningful business outcomes. - Design solution architectures for new client projects and internal products from discovery through delivery. - Participate in sales and pre-sales discussions, helping scope projects, estimate effort, and translate business goals into actionable technical plans. - Review and challenge architectural decisions across engineering teams and provide hands-on support for critical or high-risk technical problems. - Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, technology choices, and AI adoption based on cost, risk, scalability, and expected return on investment. - Represent engineering in discussions with executive leaders and client stakeholders, including C-level audiences. - Mentor tech leads and senior engineers while raising standards for code quality, security, architecture, and delivery practices.

- Contribute directly to engineering work through code reviews, prototypes, technical investigations, and hands-on problem solving. Requirements: - 10+ years of professional software development experience, including at least 3 years in an architect, principal engineer, or technical leadership position. - Current hands-on coding ability, with confidence reviewing pull requests, prototyping solutions, and contributing to complex technical work. - Experience with AI-powered engineering and AI adoption within the software development lifecycle, including knowledge of modern AI and agent capabilities. - Proven experience designing distributed, cloud-native, scalable systems. - Demonstrated product ownership experience, taking products or major features from problem definition through launch and subsequent iteration using user feedback and performance metrics. - Strong hands-on experience with Node. js, React, and Next. js. - Strong knowledge of Python for scripting, data processing, backend services, or related applications. - Proven experience working directly with clients or executives on project scope, budgets, technical trade-offs, and delivery expectations. - Strong business judgment and the ability to clearly explain how technical decisions influence cost, timelines, risk, and revenue. - Experience estimating and scoping software projects. - Excellent written and spoken English. - Availability to work within the PST time zone. - Previous experience working effectively within remote, distributed teams. - Strong communication, mentoring, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.