Principal Software Architect

Role & responsibilities

• Define and drive the software architecture vision, technical strategy, and architectural roadmap for complex applications and platforms.
• Design highly scalable, resilient, secure, maintainable, and high-performance software systems.
• Lead architecture and system-design decisions across microservices, distributed systems, APIs, databases, cloud platforms, and integrations.
• Establish software architecture standards, design principles, coding practices, reusable patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and tools and recommend solutions that provide long-term business and technical value.
• Lead the modernization, refactoring, and transformation of legacy applications and systems.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, DevOps, Security, Infrastructure, Data, and Business teams to deliver end-to-end technical solutions.
• Conduct architecture, design, and code reviews to ensure quality, scalability, security, and compliance with established standards.
• Identify technical risks, architectural gaps, performance bottlenecks, and scalability challenges and define appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to Software Engineers, Senior Developers, Technical Leads, and Architects.
• Define and maintain architecture documentation, technical specifications, reference architectures, and system-design diagrams.
• Drive adoption of cloud-native technologies, DevOps, CI/CD, automation, observability, and engineering excellence practices.
• Ensure software solutions meet requirements for availability, reliability, performance, security, scalability, and maintainability.
• Act as a senior technical authority and influence architecture decisions across multiple teams and technology domains.

Preferred candidate profile

• 5 to 10 years of strong experience in software engineering, software architecture, system design, or technical leadership roles.
• Proven experience designing and delivering complex, enterprise-scale software applications and distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in software architecture, design patterns, microservices, Domain-Driven Design, and distributed-system principles.
• Strong hands-on experience with one or more programming languages such as Java, C#/.NET, Python, Go, or similar technologies.
• Excellent knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding of databases, caching, messaging systems, APIs, event-driven architecture, and enterprise integration.
• Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud-native development.
• Strong knowledge of application security, scalability, high availability, performance optimization, and observability.
• Experience leading application modernization, cloud migration, and large-scale technology transformation initiatives.
• Ability to make sound architectural decisions and balance technical excellence with business requirements, cost, timelines, and operational considerations.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction across multiple development teams.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field; a master’s degree and relevant professional certifications are an advantage.