Solutions Architect

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Production-Employee Asheville, NC, US

2 days ago Requisition

Artisan Studios, a leading digital innovation consultancy, crafts elegant digital solutions that accelerate success for our clients. We are a team of talented, compassionate, and inclusive professionals who share a passion for technology and an unwavering drive to grow. Our work spans from application and infrastructure modernization to cloud migration, AI engineering, and custom end-to-end product development.

We're looking for a Solutions Architect to join our team of Artisans!

This is a hands-on individual contributor role in our solutions architecture practice, reporting to the Principal Solutions Architect. You work across two to five client opportunities at a time, from the first discovery call through the signed Statement of Work and the handoff to delivery.

Architecture is the core skill: knowing the major architectural styles, when each fits, what each costs, and where each fails. We are looking for someone that has experience in all phases of the SLDC, and can tell the stories of what went right, and what went wrong.

Most of our work is applied AI on AWS, so a strong understanding of the full AI/LLM ecosystem, how to integrate it into workflows as part of a comprehensive architecture.

• Design solution architectures for client engagements: choose the architectural style, name the trade-offs, and write the decision records.
• Review proposed designs for where they will fail under load, cost, security, or change, and say so before the deal is signed.
• Lead the technical side of presales: discovery, scoping, estimates, statements of work, and client workshops.
• Build proof-of-concept slices on AWS and run research spikes when a design or a client question needs a measured answer before signature.
• Prepare reference architectures and technical content for AWS Partner and AWS Professional Services sessions.
• Hand off to delivery with the design, the decision records, and the open questions written down.
• Explain and defend technical recommendations to client executives, client engineers, and AWS.

You are a fluent in software engineering topics and have professional experience designing software architectures that would pass the AWS Well Architected Review. You have shipped production software through the full software development lifecycle and lived with what your design decisions cost.

You can explain why an event-driven system fits one problem and a modular monolith fits another, and you can describe a case where you chose wrong.

You work well in consulting: you can confidently hold a high level technical position with a client CTO and then talk details with his tech leadership and ICs.

You use AI tools in your own work, you know where their output fails, and you own every line and every claim that comes out of them.

• Professional software engineering experience at a company, through the full software development lifecycle (requirements, design, build, test, release, and operation), including designing systems that other engineers built.
• Working knowledge of the major architectural styles (monolith and modular monolith, microservices, event-driven, serverless, data lakehouse, and agentic AI systems): when to use each, what each costs, and the failure modes to watch for.
• Hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native systems on AWS, in both architecture and code: compute, storage and data, identity, networking, and cost.
• Experience in consulting or professional…