Hire Solutions Architects — System Design Experts

A solutions architect translates business and product requirements into a technical blueprint. They define what services to build, how they communicate, where data lives, how the system scales under load, and how it fails safely. Kultrix solutions architects produce documented designs that give your engineering team a clear target to build toward — reducing rework and costly late-stage changes.

A senior developer excels at implementing a well-defined problem. A solutions architect excels at defining the problem correctly before implementation starts. They zoom out — evaluating trade-offs across the entire system, connecting technical decisions to business outcomes, and considering operational concerns like observability, disaster recovery, and cost at design time rather than after the fact.

Most engagements begin within one week of contract signing. Solutions architects are a senior profile and we match carefully to the domain. For cloud-specific expertise (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or specialised domains like financial systems or healthcare data, the matching process may take up to two weeks.

Yes. Documentation is a primary output. We use the C4 model to produce context, container, and component diagrams. We write Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for each significant technology or design choice, capturing the reasoning so future engineers understand why the system is built the way it is — not just how.

Yes. Our architects integrate with your team — attending technical design meetings, reviewing pull requests from an architectural perspective, mentoring senior engineers, and providing a senior technical opinion in planning sessions. They strengthen your existing team rather than replace it.

We start from requirements — throughput, latency, storage volume, operational complexity tolerance, and cost budget — and work toward the simplest cloud architecture that satisfies them. We avoid over-engineering and recommend managed services where they genuinely simplify operations. All recommendations include a cost estimate and an alternative option with different trade-offs.

Yes, and we will give you an honest opinion on whether you should. Microservices solve real problems at scale but introduce significant operational complexity. If a well-structured monolith serves your current and near-future needs, we will say so. If decomposition is genuinely warranted, we define a phased strangler fig approach that reduces risk and allows continuous delivery throughout the migration.

Security is embedded in every architecture engagement. We define authentication and authorisation patterns, secrets management strategy, network segmentation, data encryption at rest and in transit, and API security posture. For products with specific compliance requirements (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS), we design the architecture to meet those standards from the start.

Yes. Architecture reviews are a common fixed-scope engagement. We review your current system design, identify risks and inefficiencies, and produce a written report with a prioritised list of improvements. This typically takes one to two weeks and is a popular starting point before a longer-term engagement.

Our architects have deep expertise in AWS, with strong capability in GCP and Azure. For multi-cloud or cloud-agnostic designs, we use platform-neutral patterns and Terraform for infrastructure-as-code. We have particular depth in serverless architectures, container-based platforms (ECS, GKE, AKS), and event-driven systems using Kafka or cloud-native messaging services.

We design for the scale that is actually coming, not hypothetical future scale that may never arrive. We start with measured current load and realistic growth projections, design horizontal scaling patterns where they add genuine value, and recommend load testing strategies to validate assumptions before a production incident reveals them.

Solutions architect engagements are typically scoped by milestone: a discovery and design phase, an architecture document review phase, and an implementation oversight phase. We also offer monthly retainer arrangements for ongoing architectural oversight and team mentoring. Both models are priced transparently after an initial scoping conversation.