Principal Cloud Architect (12+ Years / .NET Azure)

This role seeks a strategic leader with 12+ years of experience (5+ in architecture) to drive global technology strategy and enable engineering teams autonomously.

Responsibilities:

- Enable Engineering Autonomy: Support India-based engineering teams with architectural

direction and decision-making while US-based counterparts are offline.

- Architect with Purpose: Design scalable, secure, and maintainable systems across various

product and service domains using modern architectural principles such Event Driven

Design and Domain Driven Design.

- Communicate with Clarity: Translate complex technical ideas into clear documentation,

visuals, and presentations for both technical and non-technical audiences across

geographies.

- Collaborate Across Boundaries: Partner closely with product managers, tech leads, and

senior stakeholders in both India and the US to align business goals with technical

strategy.

- Lead by Example: Guide teams through code reviews, solution design, architectural

walkthroughs, and mentorship.

- Improve Through Documentation: Create and maintain robust system diagrams, architecture documentation, and internal knowledge bases.

- Foster Innovation: Stay ahead of emerging technologies, patterns, and practices, and

bring those insights into our technical strategy.

- Strengthen Observability & Reliability: Collaborate with DevOps and SRE to enhance

monitoring, alerting, and operational health of systems.

- Support Integration Needs: Design and oversee integrations with internal services and

external vendor platforms.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience.

- 12+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 7 years in architecture or

technical leadership roles.

- Deep expertise in designing distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and

cloud-native applications

- Hands-on experience with: NET Core (C#), Modern frontend frameworks (React,

Angular), Azure Cloud Services - App Services, Functions, Service Bus, Cosmos DB,

Blob Storage, Event Grid, Azure Monitoring, SQL Server, ElasticSearch

- Strong understanding of performance, scalability, microservices architecture, domain

driven design, event driven design and CQRS.

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work across

cultures and time zones effectively.

- Proven experience writing technical documentation, architectural diagrams (UML, data

flow, etc.), and mentoring diverse technical teams.

Desired Skills:

- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect or Azure Developer Associate.

- Familiarity with the Banking, FinTech, or Financial Services domains.

- Experience in high-scale environments with production support responsibilities.

- Background working on globally distributed teams.

- Experience integrating third-party vendor platforms and APIs