Software Architect, Lifecycle Management

Responsibilities

• Work with senior engineering team in major development projects, design and implementation
• Lead the architectural design and implementation of new features and services, with a focus on scalability, performance, and security.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineering teams to define the technical strategy and lead the prototyping of software components.
• Directly oversee and coordinate complex technical initiatives involving 20+ engineers, ensuring alignment across disparate sub-teams
• Drive a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement, with a focus on robust testing, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies in identity, security, and distributed systems.
• Partner with our Product Development, QA, and Site Reliability Engineering teams for scoping the development and deployment work.

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• The ideal candidate is someone who is experienced building software systems to manage and deploy reliable and performant infrastructure and product code at scale on a cloud infrastructure
• 15+ years of Software Development in Java, preferably significant experience with Hibernate and Spring Boot
• A deep understanding of design patterns, scalability patterns, security engineering, and object-oriented principles.
• 4+ years experience automating and deploying large scale production services in AWS, GCP or similar
• Deep understanding of infrastructure level technologiescaching, stream processing, resilient architectures.
• Experience working with relational databases, ideally MySQL, PostgreSQL or GraphDB
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work across functions, distributed teams.
• Lead and mentor junior engineers

Nice to haves :

• Experience with server-side technologies including caching, asynchronous processing, and multi-threading.
• Experience with security best practices and threat modeling
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management protocols and technologiesOAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM

Education

• B.E. Computer Science or equivalent