Solutions Architect

About the role

Applaudo, an AI-native company building AI-powered solutions, is hiring a Solutions Architect for a full-time, 100% on-site position in El Salvador. The role bridges business objectives with technical solutions, connecting Engineering, Sales, Design, Operations and client teams so that everyone shares a clear vision. It is a key technical leadership position focused on turning complex business goals into scalable, executable solutions while accelerating deal velocity, reducing delivery risks and improving client satisfaction.

Key responsibilities

• Work with Commercial, Sales and Operations teams through the pre-sales process to understand client needs and build viable solutions.
• Lead technical discovery workshops to gather business, functional, architectural, infrastructure and security requirements.
• Translate client objectives into scalable architectures, technical approaches and implementation recommendations.
• Develop solution estimates covering effort, team size, costs, dependencies and delivery risks.
• Create architecture diagrams, technical proposals and documentation for handoff to Delivery and Operations.
• Evaluate architectural feasibility with Engineering Leads and Delivery Managers and recommend technologies and cloud platforms.
• Present proposals and feasibility assessments to technical stakeholders and business executives.
• Identify technical constraints and risks before project execution and support commercial teams in explaining technical value.
• Take part in weekly deal reviews, architecture discussions and sales pipeline planning.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years in technical consulting, pre-sales engineering, solutions architecture or technical leadership.
• Hands-on background in Software Engineering, QA, DevOps, Systems Engineering or similar.
• Experience designing and evaluating solutions on AWS, Azure or GCP, and knowledge of web, mobile, microservices and CI/CD architectures.
• Proven experience in technical discovery, requirement gathering, technical estimates and architecture documentation.
• Strong communication skills, including engaging C-level executives and international clients; advanced English (C1/Fluent).
• Availability to work 100% on-site in El Salvador and to travel about 10% of the time.

Required skills

• End-to-end SDLC, architectural design and modern software development practices.
• Architecture, collaboration and project management tools such as Lucidchart, Miro, Confluence, Notion, HubSpot, Jira or Power BI.
• Agile, Scrum and Kanban.
• Nice to have: AWS, Azure or Google Cloud certifications, and Scrum/Kanban certifications.