Senior Solutions Architect (Fixed Term… at LinkedIn · Bengaluru

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

As a Solution Architect, you will be responsible for defining how complex solutions should be designed, integrated, and deployed in customer environments. You will work closely with customers and internal teams to develop scalable technical architectures, addressing areas such as integrations, authentication, data flows, security, and production readiness. You’ll help ensure that solutions are technically sound, scalable, secure, and ready for successful deployment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers to understand their existing technical environments, systems, data, and integration requirements.
• Design end-to-end solution architectures that meet customer business and technical requirements.
• Define system integrations, APIs, authentication, authorization, data flows, and deployment patterns.
• Assess customer environments and identify technical dependencies, risks, and architectural constraints.
• Develop technical architecture diagrams, design documentation, and implementation recommendations.
• Advise customers on scalability, reliability, security, performance, and production readiness.
• Work closely with Solution Consultants, Forward Deployed Engineers, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure solutions can be successfully implemented.
• Review technical designs and provide guidance throughout implementation and deployment.
• Help troubleshoot complex architectural and integration challenges.
• Establish technical best practices and reusable architecture patterns across customer deployments.
• Translate customer requirements and implementation learnings into feedback for Product and Engineering teams.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer engineering, architecture, and technology leadership.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of experience in Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Integration Engineering, Technical Consulting, or a similar role.
• Experience designing complex enterprise technology solutions and integrations.
• Deep understanding of APIs, distributed systems, databases, cloud infrastructure, authentication, and data architectures.
• Experience designing solutions across multiple enterprise systems and technology environments.
• Understanding of security, scalability, reliability, and production-readiness principles.
• Technical communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work with both technical teams and senior business stakeholders.
• Problem-solving skills and ability to navigate complex and ambiguous technical environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting AI/ML, Generative AI, LLM, MCP, or data-intensive solutions.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and modern integration patterns.
• Experience with enterprise identity and access management, including OAuth, SSO, and role-based access controls.
• Experience designing solutions involving sensitive or highly regulated data.
• Experience with enterprise SaaS integrations and platforms such as Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, or similar systems.
• Experience taking complex technical architectures from design through production deployment.
• Experience working in high-growth technology companies or complex enterprise environments.

Suggested Skills

• Solution Architecture
• Enterprise Integration
• Cloud Computing
• API Design
• Distributed Systems

Additional Information

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