Application Architect

Role purpose :

The Application Architect will strengthen the central platform engineering capability across enterprise applications in wealth management, CRM, middleware, analytics, and AI-enabled platforms. This role is intended for architects with a profile similar to strong hands-on application architects who combine deep engineering capability with solution design, delivery leadership, and platform thinking.

Role summary :

The Application Architect will be responsible for designing scalable, secure, and maintainable application architectures across business-critical platforms. The role requires strong ownership across backend architecture, microservices, cloud-native design, APIs, data access patterns, observability, security, and engineering governance.

The architect will work closely with product owners, engineering leads, database and data platform teams, DevOps, middleware teams, and AI teams to ensure that platforms are modular, high-performing, and future-ready.

Key objectives :

- Design and evolve enterprise application architecture for CRM, wealth management, dashboards, analytics, and digital platform use cases.

- Define scalable and reusable architecture patterns for backend services, APIs, integrations, and platform components.

- Improve system reliability, maintainability, performance, and production readiness across business-critical applications.

- Align pod-level application development with central architecture standards, engineering governance, and integration principles.

- Enable AI-first application design by ensuring that platforms can securely consume data services, analytics services, and AI capabilities.

- Provide technical leadership across design reviews, solutioning, delivery planning, and engineering standards.

Key responsibilities :

- Design end-to-end solution architecture for new initiatives and modernization programs.

- Define application architecture patterns for microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, integration layers, and modular monoliths where appropriate.

- Review business and functional requirements and convert them into scalable technical architectures.

- Work with database and data platform teams to define clean data access patterns, service boundaries, and integration contracts.

- Establish standards for performance, caching, resiliency, observability, logging, security, and deployment readiness.

- Lead architecture and code reviews across engineering squads and pods.

- Guide teams on non-functional requirements such as scalability, availability, disaster recovery, monitoring, and cost efficiency.

- Support modernization of legacy systems into cloud-native or service-oriented architectures.

- Collaborate with DevOps teams on CI/CD, cloud deployment, environment strategy, and release governance.

- Work with AI and analytics teams to integrate recommendation engines, text-to-SQL services, document intelligence, and other AI capabilities into applications in a secure and controlled way.

- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, and help improve engineering maturity across teams.

Required skills and experience :

- 10 to 15 years of experience in software engineering and application architecture.

- Strong hands-on experience in backend application design using one or more major stacks such as Java/Spring Boot, .NET/.NET Core, Node.js, or Python for enterprise platforms.

- Strong experience in designing REST APIs, microservices, integration services, and service-to-service communication patterns.

- Good understanding of event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, caching, and distributed systems.

- Experience with relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Redis, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, or similar technologies.

- Experience in cloud-native and containerized environments such as AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and managed cloud services.

- Strong understanding of observability, logging, tracing, API monitoring, and production support practices.

- Experience in authentication, authorization, RBAC, secure design, and compliance-sensitive application development.

- Proven ability to lead solution design discussions and guide engineering teams through implementation.

Preferred experience :

- Experience in BFSI, wealth management, broking, lending, insurance, or related regulated industries.

- Experience in CRM, business workflow systems, dashboards, reporting platforms, or customer-facing transaction platforms.

- Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and API gateways.

- Familiarity with architecture for analytics-enabled and AI-enabled applications.

- Exposure to data platform interaction patterns such as curated data services, semantic layers, reporting APIs, and governed data access.

- Experience in leading cross-functional teams and working with distributed engineering organizations.

Success measures :

- Improved application scalability, modularity, and ease of change across platforms.

- Better engineering consistency through reusable architecture patterns and standards.

- Faster delivery of new platform capabilities with fewer production issues.

- Improved integration quality between application platforms, data platforms, and AI services.

- Stronger observability, resiliency, and production readiness across pods.

Candidate profile :

The ideal candidate is a hands-on architect who can go deep in code and design, but also operate effectively with senior stakeholders and multiple engineering teams. The person should be comfortable balancing business urgency with long-term architecture quality and should have strong judgment on when to standardize, when to simplify, and when to modernize.

Reporting and collaboration :

This role will work closely with :

- Enterprise and solution architects

- Engineering managers and technical leads

- Middleware and platform engineering teams

- Database and data platform teams

- DevOps and SRE teams

- AI / analytics teams

- Product owners and business stakeholders