Hire senior solutions architects who design systems teams can build
Senior solutions architects who design cloud, integration and AI architectures, document the trade-offs and stay close enough to delivery to see them built.
By the Ryz Labs team · Updated October 2026
Hiring solutions architects through Ryz gets you senior architects who translate business requirements into designs your engineers can actually build and run. They are top 1% of the candidates we interview, they work with your engineering and product leaders, and they work on US business hours.
What our solutions architects work on
Our solutions architects sit between stakeholders and delivery teams. They produce architecture diagrams in C4 or similar notation, architecture decision records, integration specs and cost models, and they review the code that implements them. They work across AWS, Azure and GCP, with event streaming, API gateways, identity providers and data platforms. Typical engagements:
- Cloud migration plans that sort each workload into rehost, replatform, refactor or retire, with sequencing and risk for each.
- Integration architecture for ERP, CRM and core business systems using APIs, queues, event buses and change data capture.
- Target architectures for a new product line, including tenancy model, data boundaries and build-versus-buy decisions.
- Architecture for AI features: where retrieval, model calls, evaluation and human review fit in your existing systems.
- Security and compliance design reviews covering identity, network segmentation, encryption and audit logging.
- Well-Architected style reviews of existing systems with a prioritized list of fixes rather than a long report.
Skills we vet for
- Requirements to design. Turning vague goals into explicit non-functional requirements: latency, availability, data residency, recovery time and recovery point.
- Cloud architecture. Compute, storage, networking and managed services on at least one major cloud in depth, with working knowledge of the others.
- Integration patterns. Synchronous versus asynchronous, idempotency, outbox pattern, sagas and dealing with systems that cannot change.
- Data architecture. Operational versus analytical stores, ownership boundaries, schema evolution and master data issues.
- Security by design. Identity federation, least privilege, secrets management, threat modeling and zero-trust network ideas applied realistically.
- Cost modeling. Estimating run cost early and showing how design choices change it.
- Written decisions. ADRs and design docs that state the options considered and why one was chosen.
- Hands-on credibility. Enough recent coding and infrastructure work to review pull requests and prototype a risky piece.
How we vet solutions architects
Our recruiters source architects who have designed systems and then lived with the results in production. Our in-house ARC system ranks the pipeline, and candidates complete structured NTRVSTA AI interviews based on design scenarios, trade-off reasoning and stakeholder communication. Recruiters review every candidate before and after, then send a curated shortlist. AI scores are advisory, and humans make the decisions.
Sample interview topics
- A business unit wants real-time inventory across 300 stores, but the ERP only exports nightly files. Design an approach and explain what you would tell the sponsor about trade-offs.
- Walk through how you would decide between a monolith split, a modular monolith and new services for a product that is outgrowing its codebase.
- Design a multi-tenant SaaS data model where some enterprise customers require data isolation in their own region.
- Your design was approved, and three months later the team is behind and cutting corners. What do you do?
- Where would you put guardrails, evaluation and human review in an LLM feature that drafts customer-facing documents?
Ways to hire solutions architects
| Option | Best for | Trade-offs |
|---|
| Freelance marketplace | A one-off design review or second opinion | Architecture done without delivery follow-through often stays on paper. |
| Staffing or recruiting agency | Roles defined by a certification and cloud checklist | Certifications do not show judgment, communication or how designs held up in production. |
| In-house recruiting | A permanent architecture function | Slow to hire, and senior architects are hard to assess without peers on the panel. |
| Ryz Labs staff augmentation | Adding a senior architect to guide your existing engineering teams | You keep final say on decisions. Works best when the architect has a clear mandate and access to stakeholders. |
| Ryz Labs AI pod team | Designing and building an AI system in your stack | A dedicated pod with a tech lead, ML and backend engineers. Scoped as a team with a plan up front. |
If you need a management consultancy for board-level strategy, or a vendor to sell you a proprietary platform, Ryz is not the right fit. Our architects design for teams that will build.
Why hire solutions architects from Latin America
Architecture is mostly meetings and documents until it becomes code. An architect who works your hours can run whiteboard sessions with product leaders in the morning and review the first implementation with engineers in the afternoon, instead of passing designs across a large time gap.
Senior architects in the region have designed systems for global retailers, payments companies, telecoms and SaaS businesses, often across several countries and regulatory regimes. They present in English to executives and write design docs that engineers can follow.
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FAQ
Are your solutions architects hands-on?
Yes. We look for architects who still write code or infrastructure regularly and can prototype the riskiest part of a design. Pure diagram-only profiles are not who we match.
Can an architect work across several of our teams?
Yes. A common setup is one architect supporting two or three delivery teams, with design reviews and office hours built into the week.
How is pricing handled?
$7,000 to $15,000 per engineer per month, scoped per team. Before you sign, you get a scoped plan, a price and the names of the people who would do the work.
What hours do they work?
They work on US business hours.
Do you place architects for pre-sales roles?
We focus on delivery-side architects who work with your engineering teams. If you need a customer-facing sales engineer, tell us and we will say honestly whether we can help.
Questions we didn't answer? Email info@ryzlabs.com.