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 South Africa.
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.
Benefits:
- Fully remote work environment with the flexibility to work from a location and schedule that suit you.
- Flexible working hours, provided you maintain a stable internet connection and meet role expectations.
- Opportunity to work with modern technologies and contribute to challenging, innovative software projects.
- Paid training and professional development opportunities.
- Consistent access to engaging and technically challenging work.
- Annual pay increases based on strong performance.
- Hourly compensation with a starting rate negotiated according to skills and experience.
- Monthly contractor payments via wire transfer.
- Opportunity to collaborate with an international, distributed team of software professionals.
How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!
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