Key Roles & Responsibilities :

1. Architecture & Technical Leadership :

- Design and evolve scalable, resilient, and high-performance architectures for telecom-grade applications.

- Define microservices and integration architecture leveraging Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis and Kubernetes.

- Conduct architecture reviews and ensure adherence to enterprise standards and best practices.

- Drive performance optimization, fault tolerance, and scalability initiatives.

2. Product Ownership & Delivery :

- Own the entire product lifecycle - from design, development and testing to deployment and support.

- Translate business needs into scalable technical solutions in collaboration with Product Management.

- Define and monitor delivery milestones, KPIs and success metrics.

- Ensure timely and quality-driven releases through strong project governance.

- Proactively manage technical and delivery risks to ensure customer satisfaction.

3. Tender Compliance & Solution Governance :

- Lead technical and functional responses for RFPs, RFIs and tenders in coordination with presales and bid teams.

- Ensure complete compliance with customer tender requirements including architecture, performance, scalability, and security aspects.

- Participate in solution defence presentations and technical clarifications with customers and partners.

- Align product capabilities with tender specifications, suggesting enhancements when needed.

- Maintain a repository of compliance documents, certifications and templates for future tenders.

- Work closely with the legal and commercial teams to ensure end-to-end bid readiness.

4. Team Leadership & Collaboration :

- Lead and mentor cross-functional engineering teams (development, QA, DevOps).

- Ensure effective workload distribution and cross-verification of functionality testing.

- Drive technical reviews, retrospectives and ensure knowledge sharing across teams.

- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability and collaboration.

5. Quality, Security & Compliance :

- Ensure products meet telecom-grade quality, reliability and security standards.

- Oversee compliance with 3GPP, ISO 27001 and other relevant telecom/IT standards.

- Drive performance benchmarking and internal audit readiness.

What we're looking for :

- 10-15 years of experience in enterprise software development, including at least 5 years in system architecture or product leadership roles.

- Telecom Knowledge : Understanding of 3G/4G and 5G network & 3GPP specifications required for Messaging or PCRF or CCS (Converged Charging System), BSS & Diameter Interfaces.

- Proficiency in Java or C++ : Strong understanding of Java/C++ programming principles and best practices.

- Spring Boot : For Java candidates, extensive experience with the Spring Boot framework, including Spring MVC, Spring Data and Spring Cloud.

- Microservices Architecture : Solid understanding of microservices architecture including design patterns, communication protocols and deployment strategies.

- Redis : Experience with Redis as a caching layer and data store.

- Kafka : Experience with Apache Kafka for building event-driven applications and streaming pipelines.

- Database : Experience with database technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL).

- Architecture Experience : Proven ability to design and implement scalable and robust architectures.

- Strong Problem-Solving Skills : Ability to identify, analyse and resolve complex technical issues.

- Excellent Communication Skills : Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and effectively.

- Teamwork : Ability to collaborate effectively with other developers and stakeholders.

- Proven experience managing tender responses, solution documentation and compliance mapping.

- Experience in product engineering and Agile delivery methodologies.

- Proven track record of delivering enterprise-grade products on schedule with high quality.

Good to have :

- Exposure to Cloud-native design (AWS, Azure, GCP).

- Experience with TM Forum APIs, Open Digital Architecture (ODA), or 3GPP compliance frameworks.

- Knowledge of DevOps pipelines, CI/CD, and observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus).

- Experience in telecom digital transformation projects.

Education :

- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications or related field.