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Principal Architect - Distributed Systems

Connect Tech+Talent
15 - 18 Years
Multiple Locations

Posted on: 26/03/2026

Job Description

Description :

About the job


Principal Architect (India)


Location : Remote

Full-Time :

Responsibilities :

- Own and drive end-to-end system architecture across multiple products and platforms

- Define architectural standards, best practices, and long-term technical vision

- Design scalable, secure, and highly available systems

- Review and guide complex system designs and critical code paths

- Partner with engineering leadership on roadmap planning and technical decisions

- Mentor senior engineers, tech leads, and architects

- Evaluate and adopt new technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns

- Ensure non-functional requirements such as performance, security, and reliability are met

- Act as the final technical escalation point for architecture-level challenges

- Drive platform and product architecture strategy

- Drive engineering consistency and technical excellence

- Drive long-term scalability and resilience

- Drive technology evolution and innovation

Requirements :


- 15+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture roles

- Strong expertise in system design and distributed architectures

- Hands-on experience across modern backend technologies

- Proven experience designing and scaling enterprise-grade platforms

- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures

- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills

- Ability to influence and align multiple engineering teams

- High-impact, org-wide architectural ownership

- Balance of strategy and hands-on influence

- Opportunity to shape platforms at scale

Mandatory Skills :


- System design

- Distributed architectures

- Backend technologies

- Enterprise-grade platform design and scaling

- Cloud-native architectures

- Problem-solving

- Decision-making

- Influencing engineering teams

Desirable Skills :


- Polyglot engineering

- Microservices

- Event-driven systems

- APIs

- GenAI / ML system architecture

- Legacy system modernization

- Stakeholder communication

- Leadership communication

Preferred Qualifications :

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field


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