Job Objective :

The Technical Lead (Solution Architect) will be responsible for designing and evolving enterprise architecture for large-scale, distributed systems. The role involves establishing technical standards, leading solution design, ensuring platform scalability, security, and interoperability, and mentoring teams to deliver robust, future-ready technology solutions.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design and evolve the enterprise architecture, ensuring it can integrate seamlessly with critical government systems (e.g., UIDAI Aadhaar for eKYC, DigiLocker, PFMS) while maintaining high scalability and performance.

- Establish technical standards, architectural principles, and best practices for the platform, ensuring a modular, microservices-based design that supports a large number of concurrent users and transactions.

- Lead technical decision-making for platform evolution e.g., AI-driven career mapping, credentialing, and labour-market intelligence.

- Architect end-to-end solutions across web/mobile front-ends, middleware, and backends, optimizing for security, maintainability, and interoperability.

- Design data architecture for real-time analytics, reporting, and evidence-based decision making across schemes.

- Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and interoperability standards (IT Act, DPDP, standards).

- Mentor vendor teams via design reviews and coding/performance/security standards.

- Align infrastructure, network, and security designs with Cloud & Infra and Security leads.

Required Skills and Qualifications :

- B.Tech./M.Tech in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field; Masters degree preferred.

- 12+ years of experience in solution/enterprise architecture or systems design, including at least 4 years in leading architecture teams or major technology transformation initiatives.

- Proven track record in designing large-scale, distributed systems and integrating complex platforms supporting millions of users (experience with government or public-sector platforms is a plus).

- Mandatory : Prior government/public sector project experience

Essential Skills :

- Full-stack & microservices : Go, Node.js, Java (Spring Boot); Angular, React, React Native.

- Integration : Kafka, REST/GraphQL, Istio service mesh.

- Identity : Keycloak/OIDC, OAuth2, SSO and token management.

- Cloud & DevOps : ROSA (OpenShift on AWS), Kubernetes, Docker.

Desirable Skills :

- Certifications : AWS/Azure Architect, TOGAF, OpenShift.

- Background in DPI/e-governance platforms.