Application Architect

Job Summary

HR Block is seeking an Application Architect to drive engineering excellence and bring clarity to application design decisions across the organization. This role requires a seasoned professional with at least 5 years of experience in the architecture domain, capable of partnering with product, engineering, data, security, and platform teams. The architect is accountable for producing and governing core architecture artifacts such as context diagrams, conceptual designs, and data flows ensuring solutions are resilient, fit for purpose, and aligned with enterprise standards.

Job Details

• Job Title: Application Architect
• Band Level: L7
• Experience Level: Total 15+ years (5+ Years in Architecture Domain must)
• Location: Trivandrum, Kerala
• Employment Type: Full-Time

Responsibilities

• Lead application architecture for assigned portfolios, engaging squads before designs harden.
• Convert complex financial requirements into clear, actionable engineering designs.
• Maintain architecture roadmaps, context diagrams, and technology stack definitions.
• Drive compliance with enterprise strategy, domain principles, and data standards.
• Guide API, event-driven, and resiliency choices across AWS and Azure platforms.
• Provide guidelines and oversight to ensure deliverables align with the enterprise vision.
• Identify risks early and facilitate pragmatic trade-offs between speed, quality, and cost.
• Assess application patterns and technical debt to simplify or retire legacy capabilities.
• Collaborate with security and data teams to ensure cohesive, cross-functional solutions.
• Join product discussions to ensure designs optimize for small business outcomes.
• Facilitate design reviews to build alignment across competing viewpoints.
• Mentor engineers on design practices, documentation, and enterprise dependencies.
• Maintain current documentation to eliminate reliance on tribal knowledge.

Skills

• 1 Python: Logic via Django/Flask. Yes
• 2 .NET Ecosystem: C# and .NET Core services. Yes
• 3 Angular: SPA frontend development. Yes
• 4 AWS Cloud: EC2, RDS, Lambda, and Gateways. Yes
• 5 Azure Platform: SaaS/PaaS strategic alignment. Yes
• 6 SQL NoSQL Database Design: Database optimization and sharding. Yes
• 7 REST APIs: Internal and public service integrations. Yes
• 8 Security Compliance: PCI-DSS, encryption, and OAuth. Yes
• 9 Containerization: Docker and Kubernetes management. Yes
• 10 CI/CD Pipeline Automation Yes
• 11 Observability Resiliency Patterns Yes
• 12 GraphQL: Nested data fetch management. Yes
• 13 Terraform/CloudFormation: IaC for cloud provisioning. Yes
• 14 Event-Driven Design: Asynchronous, decoupled patterns. Yes
• 15 Generative AI: LLM integration for application features. Yes
• 16 Agentic Workflows: Designing autonomous AI agents for task automation. Yes
• 17 MCP (Model Context Protocol): Standardized AI-to-data integration. Yes
• 18 AI Code Generation: Prompt-driven and automated code development. Yes

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