Title: Senior Solutions Architect - Customer Data (CDP) and Loyalty Location: Remote - Washington DC Duration: Long-term (16+ Months) Basic Architecture Patterns Layered architecture (UI → API → services → data) Microservices vs monolith tradeoffs Event-driven architecture fundamentals (pub/sub, async messaging) API & Integration Design REST/JSON APIs (design, versioning, error handling) Basic understanding of GraphQL (nice-to-have given your mobile/BFF context) Data Fundamentals Data modeling basics (entities, relationships, normalization vs denormalization) Understanding of customer data platforms (CDP concepts) Cloud Fundamentals (AWS preferred) Compute (EC2, containers, serverless basics) Storage (S3, RDS, DynamoDB concepts) Networking basics (VPC, subnets, security groups) Hiring Manager Notes: Solutions Architect with Customer domain experience in loyalty and marketing rather than UI. Data Integrations experience. Data Fundamentals/ APIs experience CDP (Customer Data Platform/ Customer Data Domain/ Customer Domain) knowledge is critical ETL experience Knowledge of CRM Concepts AEM/ AEM experience is a plus Airlines/ Bus/ Rail/ Hotel/ Entertainment industry/ domain experience