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Solutions Architect

AEM Corporation

$130,000-$160,000

United States, D.C., Washington

Nov 24, 2025

About Us

At AEM, we're on a mission to help organizations unlock the power of their data. We build cutting edge data platforms that power AI and business critical decisions. We're looking for passionate innovators to join our team and help us build better solutions.

Position

As a Solutions Architect, you will be the key technical bridge between our customers' business goals and our world-class engineering teams. You're an exceptional communicator who thrives on understanding a client's "why" and translating that into a "how." You will align client needs with AEM solutions and champion secure, scalable, and cost-effective data solutions hosted on Azure and AWS, guiding our customers and delivery teams from the initial workshop to a successful launch.

What We Offer

Make a tangible impact through strategic client opportunities and grow professionally with dedicated support for your education and development.
Thrive in a collaborative, team-first culture that genuinely cares for its members, reflected in our communication and generous benefits.
Enjoy a flexible, remote-first environment with strong remote collaboration, plus optional access to our northern Virginia office.
Connect with colleagues from across the country at our annual all-company gathering to build relationships and celebrate our successes.
Advance your career on a clear path with defined opportunities for growth into senior and principal roles.

How We Work

Scrum-Aligned Collaboration: We believe in clear goals, user stories, acceptance criteria, and automated testing. We actively participate in planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
Team-First Culture: We seek help early and offer help freely. We elevate our standards through design reviews, pair programming, and shared knowledge management.
Outcome-Driven Delivery: We measure our impact (mission, performance, quality, cycle time), iterate on our processes, and stay focused on delivering customer value.

Key Responsibilities

Customer Engagement & Solution Design: Lead discovery workshops, clarify business goals, and elicit all functional/non-functional requirements (security, cost, performance) to design and present a clear solution.
Data Platform Architecture: Design modern lakehouse and data platform topologies on Azure and AWS, defining patterns for ingestion, storage, processing (batch/streaming), and consumption (BI/AI/ML). Contribute to the continual evolution of AEM's solution portfolio.
Technical & Business Advisory: Advise clients on the best services (AWS, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake) to meet their needs. Clearly communicate tradeoffs between cost, complexity, and risk to secure stakeholder alignment.
Data Governance & Quality: Establish and champion data strategies and the value of business glossaries, data catalogs, lineage, master data management, and an organization that continually grows to realize the potential value of their data.
Engineering & Team Enablement: Mentor engineers by improving and explaining our reference architectures, design artifacts, and best-practice patterns. You'll review designs and PRs to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, and maintainable.

What We're Looking For (Must Have Qualifications):

7+ years in data/analytics, with at least 3+ years in an architect role leading end-to-end solutions.
Bachelor's or Master's Degree: Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Software Engineering, Applied Math, Industrial Engineering or similar.
Exceptional Communication: Proven customer-facing skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for business stakeholders, lead workshops, and present to executives.
Cloud Expertise (Azure or AWS): Hands-on experience designing and delivering data platforms using services like Spark, ADLS Gen2, AWS S3, Databricks, Snowflake, Glue, Azure Synapse, CDC, Kafka, Lambda, Delta Lake, Iceberg, EMR, etc.
Data Engineering Foundations: Strong proficiency in Python (Pandas/PySpark) and SQL for reproducible, testable data transformations.
Agile & Collaborative: Experience working in Scrum teams and partnering with product owners.
Eligibility: Ability to obtain a Public Trust or other security clearances as required by client contracts.

Nice-to-Haves (Bonus Points If You Have):

Experience with commercial data platforms, e.g., Databricks, Snowflake.
Hands-on experience with data governance tools (e.g., data catalogs, lineage).
Knowledge of MDM, reference data concepts, and data stewardship practice
Experience with multi-cloud data integration patterns (Azure, AWS, GCP)
Understanding of FinOps, cost optimization strategies, and platform observability.
Relevant certifications from Microsoft Azure or AWS.

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