Technical Architect

Role & responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical architecture, solution design, and technology roadmap for enterprise applications and platforms.
• Design scalable, secure, highly available, and high-performance systems aligned with business requirements.
• Translate functional and non-functional requirements into technical architecture and solution designs.
• Lead architecture decisions across application, cloud, database, integration, security, and infrastructure layers.
• Design and implement microservices, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native solutions.
• Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies, frameworks, platforms, and architectural patterns.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, DevOps, Security, QA, and business stakeholders to deliver robust solutions.
• Conduct technical reviews, architecture reviews, and design walkthroughs and ensure adherence to engineering standards.
• Identify and address scalability, performance, reliability, security, and technical debt challenges.
• Define integration strategies and oversee integration with internal and third-party systems.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to Software Engineers, Senior Developers, and Technical Leads.
• Drive cloud adoption, modernization, migration, and application transformation initiatives where applicable.
• Establish best practices for coding, design patterns, API development, CI/CD, observability, security, and DevOps.
• Troubleshoot complex production and architectural issues and provide long-term technical solutions.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, technical specifications, standards, and documentation.

Preferred candidate profile

• 5 to 10 years of experience in Software Engineering, Technical Architecture, Solution Architecture, or a related technology role.
• Proven experience designing and implementing large-scale, distributed, scalable, and highly available applications.
• Strong hands-on expertise in one or more programming languages such as Java, .NET, Python, or Node.js.
• Strong knowledge of Microservices, REST APIs, Distributed Systems, Design Patterns, Event-Driven Architecture, and System Design.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps, Git, Jenkins, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis, or DynamoDB.
• Knowledge of messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, application security, scalability, performance optimization, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Experience conducting architecture/design reviews and making technology decisions based on business and technical requirements.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
• Ability to mentor engineering teams and influence technical decisions across multiple teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Electronics, or a related technical discipline.
• B.E./B.Tech/MCA/M.Tech or equivalent qualification preferred.
• Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, TOGAF, or Kubernetes are an added advantage.