Solutions Architect (AI)

Location: Fully remote; candidates must be based in the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom.

Company

hirify.global provides AI, automation, cloud engineering, advanced analytics, digital transformation, and business process technology services for global brands.

What you will do

• Partner with business stakeholders to discover objectives, challenges, constraints, dependencies, assumptions, and success criteria.
• Translate business needs into functional, non-functional, and technical requirements with actionable solution designs.
• Design end-to-end solutions spanning applications, enterprise platforms, data flows, integrations, infrastructure, and cloud services.
• Evaluate products, platforms, services, vendors, alternatives, costs, risks, trade-offs, and operational implications; lead or support proofs of concept.
• Provide architectural guidance throughout delivery, align scope and dependencies, review implementation designs, and resolve cross-system technical issues.
• Incorporate security, privacy, compliance, resilience, accessibility, and operational requirements while contributing reusable architecture patterns and reference designs.

Requirements

• Experience in solution architecture, software engineering, systems integration, infrastructure, cloud engineering, or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of application architecture, APIs, integration patterns, databases, networking, and cloud services.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering technology solutions across multiple systems or technical domains.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business needs into clear requirements and practical technical designs.
• Ability to evaluate alternatives across functionality, security, performance, reliability, maintainability, and cost.
• Experience producing architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and architecture decision records.
• Strong communication skills, including explaining complex technical concepts to nontechnical audiences.
• Ability to build consensus, influence decisions, and work effectively across teams without direct management authority.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively in a fully remote environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, cloud services, and hybrid technology environments.
• Experience with technology modernization, platform consolidation, or complex integration initiatives.
• Familiarity with identity and access management, data protection, secure design principles, DevOps, infrastructure as code, and automated delivery pipelines.
• Experience evaluating vendors, developing proofs of concept, and assessing total cost of ownership.
• Relevant solution architecture, cloud, or enterprise architecture certifications.
• A dedicated cybersecurity background or security certification is not required; the role requires incorporating security requirements into broader solution designs and collaborating with security specialists.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.
• Cross-functional collaboration with business, engineering, infrastructure, application, implementation, procurement, legal, information security, and technology teams.
• Architecture leadership focused on business value, scalability, security, reliability, operational sustainability, and cost.
• The role is a contractor position and is not limited to information security responsibilities.