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Hire a solutions architect who turns requirements into a design that ships
System design, cloud architecture, integrations and the trade-offs between cost, speed and risk. A dedicated solutions architect from Latin America who works your hours and stays with the design after the diagram is drawn.
TRUSTED BY TEAMS WHOSE CLOUDTASK HIRES HAVE STAYED 5 TO 8 YEARS
How it works
How do I hire a solutions architect?
You do one thing: interview. We handle everything else.
Post the role
5 minutes. The role, the motion, the tools, the comp band. That is all we need to start.
Review your matches
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours.
Interview and hire
We coordinate interviews. On Managed Staffing, we also handle payroll and compliance across LATAM.
WHY TEAMS TRUST CLOUDTASK
What you get with every hire
A design with an owner
A dedicated architect who stays through the build. Not a consultant who hands over a diagram and leaves the team to discover what it missed.
Same day as your stakeholders
Latin America and the Caribbean overlap the US working day, so design reviews with engineering, product and clients happen live.
Checked against your stack
Your cloud provider, your core systems and the integrations you run. Each search is sourced against the environment you name.
Replacement guarantee
24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire. Architecture decisions cannot wait for a second search, so the guarantee covers the case where the fit is wrong.
WHY CLOUDTASK
Staffing with numbers behind it
10,000+
hires placed
since 2016
85%
still in seat
past 90 days
24 months
replacement guarantee
on Managed Staffing
12
countries
across Latin America and the Caribbean
PRICING MODEL
Managed Staffing.
Managed Staffing is open to every role we place. We find the person, handle payments and compliance, and stay involved after the hire with check-ins, visibility, and escalation when something is off. You get the person. We keep the machine running. For roles that create demand, outbound SDRs, BDRs, demand generation and full-cycle AEs, Managed Staffing runs on a six-month minimum term.
Pay
One all-in monthly rate
Per person. That is the number, and there is nothing added to it.
In the monthly rate
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Matching coordination
- Worker payments
- Compliance and employment administration
- Onboarding support at day 0, 7, 30 and 60
- Ongoing check-ins with the hire and with you
- Time and activity tracking, on by default
- Performance escalation
- 24-month replacement guarantee. Replacements not capped.
- Health benefits available on request
- Equipment benefits available on request
Stays with you
- The work itself
- Priorities and direction
- Who you hire
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchPRICING MODEL
Direct Hire.
Direct Hire is open to every role we place. We find the person, vet them, and hand them over. You employ them, you manage them, you own the relationship from day one. Roles that create demand usually land here, because live call feedback and daily coaching work best coming straight from your sales leader, and there is no minimum term.
Pay
20% to 30%
Of first-year base salary. One time, quoted per role, paid when they accept.
In the fee
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Shortlist of matched candidates
- Interview coordination
- Offer support
- 6-month replacement guarantee. One replacement, same job description.
Yours when they accept
- Employment and payroll
- Compliance and employment administration
- Ongoing management
- Time and activity tracking
- Health benefits and equipment benefits
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchHow CloudTask compares
Run the numbers. We did.
The same role, three ways to fill it.
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| US Direct Hire | Staffing Agency | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Interview | 48 hours | 3 to 6 weeks | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Payroll & Compliance | Included on Managed Staffing | You manage | Included in rate |
| Vetting Process | Human + AI verified | You screen | Recruiter screened |
| Candidate spam | Screened out before you see a profile | Common | Low |
| Tool Verification | Verified per candidate | Self-reported | Rarely verified |
| Free Replacements | 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire | None | Variable |
Testimonials
Trusted by teams that hire with us
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LATAM has been a gold mine for talent. Our CloudTask hires understand our company culture and mission, and they connect with our customers in a way that drives high NPS and CX scores.
David Barrett CEO, Expensify -
At first we were an SF-based team only. Then I met Amir Reiter back in 2018. After visiting Medellín, I knew LATAM would be key to our growth and success.
Tim Zheng CEO, Apollo.io -
After meeting my CX and CS team in Medellín, we immediately loved the culture and the work ethic. As a European-HQ company, we found LATAM to be perfect to service our American clients.
Carl Carell CRO and Co-founder, GetAccept
SKILLS
Top capabilities to look for in a solutions architect
A certification shows familiarity with a provider's services. These are the capabilities that decide whether the design holds up once real users, real data and a real budget arrive.
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Requirements discovery
Getting from what the business asks for to what the system has to do: volumes, users, integrations, compliance and the constraints nobody wrote down.
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System design
Choosing components, data flows and boundaries between services, and knowing when a simple design beats a clever one.
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Cloud architecture
Designing on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud with a clear view of managed services, their limits and what each choice commits you to.
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Integration patterns
APIs, events, queues and data syncs between your product, your CRM, your ERP and third-party systems, with failure handled on purpose.
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Cost and trade-offs
Estimating what a design costs to run and build, and explaining the trade-off between cost, speed and risk to people who have to approve it.
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Security and compliance by design
Identity, data protection and audit requirements built into the design from the start instead of added after a review fails.
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Clear documentation
Diagrams and decision records an engineer can build from and a stakeholder can read, kept current as the system changes.
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AI where it saves a step
Drafting design documents, comparing service options and summarizing vendor documentation. Useful for speed, never a substitute for judgment on trade-offs.
HIRING GUIDE
How to hire a solutions architect
Solutions architect is one of the broadest titles in technology, and most searches for it are about the job or the certification. This guide covers what the role does for a hiring company, how it differs from software and cloud architects, and when you do not need one.
What is a solutions architect?
A solutions architect designs how a business problem will be solved with technology: which systems are involved, how they connect, where the data lives and what it costs to run. The output is a design the engineering team can build and the business can approve.
The role sits between stakeholders and engineers. It spends as much time asking questions and explaining trade-offs as it does drawing diagrams.
Solutions architect, software architect or cloud architect?
A software architect focuses on the internal structure of one application: modules, patterns and code quality. A cloud architect focuses on the infrastructure platform. A solutions architect works across systems, connecting several applications, vendors and data sources to solve one business need.
In small companies one person often covers two of these. Describe the problem in the brief, and see our software architects and cloud engineers pages if one of those fits better.
Does a solutions architect need an AWS certification?
It helps as evidence of familiarity with a provider, and it matters if you are an AWS partner with certification requirements. It does not prove someone can design a system that survives real traffic and a real budget.
Ask for designs they produced and how those systems behaved in production. That tells you more than the certificate.
When should you not hire a dedicated solutions architect?
When you have one product on a standard stack and a senior engineer who already makes the design decisions. A separate architect will add a layer of documents without adding much value.
It is also the wrong hire when the design work is a one-time event, such as choosing a platform for a single migration. A short consulting engagement fits that better. Hire a dedicated architect when design decisions keep coming: new integrations, new clients with their own requirements, or several teams building on shared systems.
Pre-sales or delivery?
At software vendors, solutions architects often work in pre-sales, designing how the product fits a prospect's environment and supporting the sales team on technical calls. At companies building their own systems, the role is about delivery.
These are different profiles. Say which one you need in the brief, because the interview and the search change completely.
What should I test in the interview?
Give a realistic scenario from your business: the systems involved, the volumes and one hard constraint. Ask for a design on a whiteboard and listen to the questions they ask before they draw anything.
Then change a constraint, such as the budget or the deadline, and see how the design moves. A good architect explains what they would give up and why.
Red flags in solutions architect candidates
Drawing before asking. In the scenario, a candidate who goes to the whiteboard before asking about volumes, users and constraints is designing for a problem you did not describe.
A design that does not move. Change the budget or the deadline. If the design stays the same, or they cannot say what they would give up, they will not be able to explain trade-offs to the people who approve them.
The certificate as the portfolio. A candidate who leads with a certification but cannot show a design they produced, and how it behaved in production, has shown familiarity with a provider, not the ability to design for your traffic and your budget.
Integrations that never fail. Ask what happens when one of the connected systems is slow or down. A design where failure is not handled on purpose will find its failure mode in production.
No cost in the design. If they cannot explain what their design costs to build and to run, the first person to find out will be whoever pays the bill.
How much does it cost to hire a solutions architect?
It depends on seniority, the systems and cloud you run, the language requirement and the country the person works from, and any single number describes one scenario and calls it a price.
What is worth understanding is the shape. On Managed Staffing it is one all-in monthly rate per person with payments, compliance and replacement cover inside it. On Direct Hire it is a one-time fee and the person goes on your payroll. We quote your number before you interview anyone.
Why hire a solutions architect in Latin America?
Overlap. Architecture is decided in conversations with engineering, product and clients, and Latin America and the Caribbean share most of the US working day, so those conversations happen live.
The second reason is communication. An architect has to explain trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical people in English, and we screen that live on a call rather than inferring it from a profile.
How does CloudTask hire for this role?
You send the systems, the kind of design work and the hours you need covered. We source against that brief and come back with 3 to 5 matched profiles within 48 hours, each one screened on a live call and checked against the stack you named.
You interview and choose. On Managed Staffing we handle payments, compliance and onboarding and stay involved with check-ins. On Direct Hire the person joins your payroll from day one. Both carry a replacement guarantee: 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire.
FAQ
The fine print, in plain terms.
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Ready to hire?
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours. Start with a quick role brief to get your shortlist.