Manager Architect

Job Profile/Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Define and own end-to-end solution architecture for enterprise applications.
• Design high-performance, scalable, secure, resilient, and cloud-native solutions on AWS, as well as modernize and optimize monolithic applications.
• Establish architecture standards, design principles, best practices, and governance processes across the SDLC.
• Create and maintain architecture artifacts, including HLDs, LLDs, sequence diagrams, deployment diagrams, integration designs, and technical roadmaps.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture teams to ensure compliance with organizational standards and obtain architecture approvals.
• Evaluate and recommend architecture patterns, frameworks, tools, and technology stacks aligned with business and technical objectives.
• Mentor engineering teams, technical leads, and developers, fostering engineering excellence and architectural best practices.
• Participate in strategic technology planning, modernization initiatives, and transformation programs.
• Work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, and clients to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Present architectural solutions, conduct technical workshops, and lead architecture review sessions.
• Define and enforce security architecture standards, secure design principles, and compliance requirements across applications and platforms.
• Conduct architecture and security reviews to identify risks, vulnerabilities, and mitigation strategies.
• Ensure solutions adhere to security best practices including authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets management, auditability, and data protection.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Security and Compliance teams to ensure alignment with organizational and regulatory requirements.

Application & Cloud Architecture

• Lead solution design and implementation using Java/JEE, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Define reusable frameworks, components, design patterns, and engineering standards.
• Drive application modernization initiatives, including migration from monolithic architectures to microservices and cloud-native platforms.
• Design and implement AWS-based solutions leveraging services such as ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, S3, CloudFront, IAM, CloudWatch, and Secrets Manager.
• Architect containerized solutions using Docker, ECS/EKS, and Kubernetes.
• Define cloud migration strategies, disaster recovery plans, capacity management, cost optimization approaches, and operational excellence practices.
• Design secure-by-default applications and cloud platforms leveraging AWS security services and best practices.
• Architect identity and access management solutions using IAM roles, policies, federated authentication, and least-privilege access principles.
• Define security controls for APIs, microservices, containers, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Implement encryption strategies for data at rest and in transit using AWS KMS, Secrets Manager, TLS, and related security services.
• Ensure cloud solutions meet security, compliance, availability, scalability, and disaster recovery requirements.
• Guide teams on secure coding practices and remediation of security vulnerabilities identified through scans, audits, and penetration testing.

Performance Engineering & Operational Excellence

• Provide subject matter expertise in performance engineering, monitoring, tuning, diagnostics, and capacity planning.
• Analyze and resolve complex performance and scalability challenges, including multi-threading and concurrent processing issues.
• Utilize performance monitoring and diagnostic tools such as Dynatrace, JProfiler, VisualVM, Glowroot, and similar APM solutions.
• Evaluate emerging performance engineering methodologies, monitoring tools, and technologies, and promote best practices across teams.

Delivery & Stakeholder Management

• Drive software development lifecycle activities, including requirements analysis, solution design, implementation, and delivery.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders in a fast-paced Agile environment.
• Support project planning, estimation, risk management, and technical decision-making.
• Demonstrate excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.

Required Skills

• Java (Core Java, Java EE/Jakarta EE)
• Spring Boot & Spring Framework
• Microservices Architecture
• REST APIs / JSON Services
• Angular
• AWS Cloud Services
• Docker, ECS/EKS, Kubernetes
• Oracle, SQL Server
• MongoDB / Amazon DocumentDB
• SQL & Database Design
• JProfiler, VisualVM, Glowroot, Dynatrace (preferred)
• JBoss, Tomcat
• Multi-threading & Performance Tuning
• Agile / Scrum
• Application Security
• AWS Security

Desired Skills

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)
• SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)
• Insurance / BFSI Domain Experience
• Cloud Migration & Modernization Experience
• Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka/SQS/SNS)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / CloudFormation)Role & responsibilities