Position Overview:

The Software System Architect is responsible for defining the overall architecture, technology strategy, and high-level design of complex software systems. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong leadership skills, and the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and business teams to ensure scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

Architecture & System Design:

- Define end-to-end architecture for software platforms including application, data, integration, cloud, and security layers.

- Develop high-level designs, architecture diagrams, and technology roadmaps.

- Establish system-wide non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, security, reliability, and interoperability.

- Ensure architecture alignment with business goals, regulatory needs, and long-term product vision.

Technology Leadership:

- Evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and tools and guide adoption of best-fit solutions.

- Lead architectural reviews, technical deep-dives, and cross-team design decisions.

- Provide technical mentorship to software engineers, DevOps teams, and product teams.

- Drive standardization, coding guidelines, and architectural governance.

Development & Integration Oversight:

- Collaborate with development teams to translate architecture into actionable technical requirements.

- Oversee API design, microservices architecture, data models, and system integration approaches.

- Ensure adherence to modularity, reusability, security-by-design, and fault tolerance principles.

- Guide integration with internal and third-party systems including cloud services, databases, IoT, and analytics platforms.

Quality, Security & Compliance:

- Ensure systems follow secure software development practices and cybersecurity standards.

- Define quality benchmarks, validation frameworks, and test automation strategies.

- Support compliance with standards such as ISO 27001, OWASP, GDPR, HIPAA, and applicable domain regulations.

- Conduct architecture risk assessments and lead mitigation planning.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

- Work closely with product managers to align functional requirements with architectural capabilities.

- Partner with DevOps teams for CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and deployment strategies.

- Collaborate with QA, data science, hardware teams where applicable, and business stakeholders.