Role & Responsibilities :

- Define and drive the overall software architecture, technical strategy, and engineering standards across products and platforms.

- Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, reliable, and maintainable technical solutions.

- Own architecture decisions across application, API, database, cloud, integration, and infrastructure layers.

- Design highly scalable and distributed systems capable of handling growing traffic, data, and business requirements.

- Establish and enforce architectural principles, design patterns, coding standards, and best practices across engineering teams.

- Drive modernization of legacy systems and support cloud adoption, microservices, API-first architecture, and platform engineering where appropriate.

- Review and approve high-level designs, solution architectures, technical specifications, and critical code/design decisions.

- Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, DevOps, Security, Data, and Business teams to align technology decisions with organizational goals.

- Establish practices for observability, availability, disaster recovery, performance, security, and operational resilience.

- Conduct architecture reviews, technical design reviews, and proof-of-concepts for complex technical challenges.

- Maintain clear architecture documentation, system diagrams, technical decision records, and engineering guidelines.

- Stay current with emerging technologies, industry trends, and architectural approaches and assess their applicability to the organization.

- Balance short-term delivery requirements with long-term architectural sustainability, avoiding unnecessary complexity and technical debt.

Preferred Candidate Profile :

- 8 - 10 years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience in designing and building production-grade systems.

- Demonstrated experience in a Software Architect, Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Lead Architect, or equivalent senior technical role.

- Strong understanding of software architecture, system design, distributed systems, and design patterns.

- Hands-on experience with one or more modern technology stacks such as Java/Spring Boot, .NET, Node.js, Python, Go, or similar.

- Strong knowledge of REST APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, messaging systems, and integration patterns.

- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases and understanding of data modeling, scalability, caching, and database optimization.

- Practical experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent cloud platforms.

- Good understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices.

- Strong understanding of security, authentication/authorization, API security, data protection, and secure software development practices.

- Experience designing systems for high availability, scalability, reliability, performance, and fault tolerance.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound technical decisions under ambiguity.

- Strong ownership mindset with the ability to balance architecture quality, business priorities, delivery timelines, and cost.

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.