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Calling All Upstarters! SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT WANTED! We are Upstart 13. We are humble, hungry, and competent people who are radically changing the expectations and experience of outsourcing for all participants by challenging barriers that create inequality and by bringing down borders in technology for people everywhere. We’re all about delivering value and doing big things. We have become a game changer for teams around the world who look to Upstart’s services as a differentiator. Job Description We are seeking a highly experienced Solutions Architect to provide architectural leadership and technical direction across complex, multi‑domain platforms. This role is primarily strategic and advisory , focused on defining sound architectures, guiding engineering decisions, and ensuring systems evolve in a scalable, secure, and sustainable way as they mature. While early engagements or greenfield systems may require deeper technical involvement, the long‑term focus of this role is architecture ownership rather than day‑to‑day coding . Success in this role depends on a strong ability to understand, read, and reason about code; deep expertise in cloud infrastructure (particularly Azure or similar platforms); and the credibility to guide highly capable engineering teams without formal authority. This role bridges pre‑sales and delivery , ensuring the solutions we commit to clients are architecturally sound, feasible, and aligned with long‑term technology strategy. You will work closely with Sales, Engineering, Product, and Leadership to shape solution approaches, influence system evolution, and raise overall technical maturity across the organization. Responsibilities Define and Develop Architectural Strategy: Create detailed architecture blueprints, system designs, and long‑term technical roadmaps. Establish architectural standards, best practices, and reference patterns. Design scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems and integrations. Evaluate trade‑offs between scalability, security, cost, performance, and maintainability. Define long‑term system evolution and modernization strategies. Act as the primary architectural authority, guiding technical direction across mature and evolving systems. Cloud & Infrastructure Leadership: Architect and optimize cloud or hybrid infrastructures, including networking, IAM/RBAC, compute, storage, monitoring, and security. Define best practices for resource organization, security posture, governance, and cost optimization. Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, resilience, and scalable configurations. Guide Infrastructure‑as‑Code and automation strategies (e.g., Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Pulumi, native IaC tools). Provide deep architectural expertise in cloud platforms, serving as an escalation point for complex infrastructure decisions. DevOps, Automation & Delivery Enablement: Lead adoption and optimization of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines. Define deployment strategies, release workflows, and environment management. Promote automation, performance monitoring, observability, and operational excellence. Support engineering teams in debugging, incident resolution, and performance improvements, primarily from an architectural and systems‑level perspective. Hands‑On Technical Contribution: Remain hands‑on as needed during early‑stage engagements, greenfield initiatives, or architectural inflection points. Contribute selectively to architecture‑critical code components, prototypes, or proofs of concept. Participate in code reviews, design reviews, and complex technical troubleshooting. Support performance tuning, optimization, and architectural refactoring. Validate the feasibility of architectural designs through hands‑on collaboration and strong code literacy, rather than sustained feature development. Pre-S