Senior Software Architect

Description :

Job Title : Senior Software Architect

About Company :

This company is a global online FX and CFD trading company, trusted by over 60,000 customers across 100+ countries. The company serves new and professional traders, financial institutions, and trading businesses by enabling informed transactions in global financial markets.

It is recognized for its strong reputation as a transparent and reliable broker, offering excellent customer service, fast execution, secure payments, segregated funds, and seamless withdrawals.

Role Overview :

As a Senior Software Architect, you will be part of the Architecture organization responsible for providing technical direction across domain PODs, SRE, Data, and Infrastructure teams.

You will play a key role in designing resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient systems using modern technologies such as .NET Core, Azure, Kubernetes, and DevOps practices, while influencing architectural decisions across the organization.

Key Responsibilities :

1. Architecture Design & Strategy :

a. Define and document target architecture, blueprints, and design patterns for:

- .NET Core microservices

- React / React Native frontends

- Azure cloud infrastructure

b. Design high-availability and low-latency systems, including :

- API gateways

- Messaging systems

- Caching strategies

- Circuit breaker patterns

2. Observability & System Reliability :

a. Establish organization-wide standards for:

- Structured logging

- Distributed tracing

- Metrics, SLOs, and alerting

b. Ensure systems are highly observable, reliable, and performance-driven

3. Architecture Governance & Innovation :

a. Lead architecture reviews, threat modeling, and Proof of Concepts (POCs)

b. Evaluate technology choices and design trade-offs

c. Drive adoption of best practices across teams

4. Cloud & DevOps Enablement :

a. Define strategies for Kubernetes (AKS), including :

- Containerization and registry management

- Deployment strategies (GitOps, blue-green, canary)

b. Establish CI/CD pipeline architecture and infrastructure-as-code standards

c. Enable fast, secure, and reliable deployments

5. Data & Platform Architecture :

a. Guide data architecture decisions across :

- SQL Server

- Cosmos DB

- Databricks

- Data lakes

b. Support both transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads

6. Security & Compliance :

Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to :

- Define secure architecture patterns

- Meet regulatory requirements

- Ensure audit-ready systems

7. Leadership & Mentorship

a. Mentor senior engineers, architects-in-training, and technical leads

b. Drive architectural maturity across teams and geographies

c. Influence engineering standards and best practices

Key Requirements :

Technical Expertise :

a. Strong experience in :

- .NET Core microservices architecture

- Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Clean Architecture, CQRS

- Event-driven architecture patterns

b. Advanced expertise in Microsoft Azure, including :

- App Services, AKS (Kubernetes)

- Service Bus, Event Grid, API Management

- Cosmos DB, SQL Database

- Key Vault, Storage, Application Insights

Cloud & Kubernetes :

Deep knowledge of Kubernetes (AKS):

- Cluster design, networking, and security (RBAC, network policies)

- Resource management and autoscaling

- GitOps tools (FluxCD, ArgoCD)

DevOps & Deployment :

a. Strong understanding of :

- CI/CD pipelines (Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions)

- Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, ARM templates)

- Containerization (Docker)

- Deployment strategies (blue-green, canary releases)

System Design & Reliability :

a. Experience building resilient systems using :

- Circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, fallbacks

- Chaos engineering practices

Observability & Monitoring :

a. Expertise in :

- Logging and tracing (Application Insights, OpenTelemetry)

- Metrics (Prometheus)

- Monitoring tools (Azure Monitor, Datadog)

Security & Data Architecture :

Knowledge of :

- API security (OAuth2, JWT, mTLS)

- Secrets management and encryption

- OLTP vs OLAP systems, relational and NoSQL databases

- Eventual consistency patterns

Experience & Soft Skills :

- 10 - 14 years of experience in software engineering with strong architectural leadership

- Proven experience in designing and managing large-scale distributed systems (preferably in fintech or trading domains)

- Strong communication skills to present complex architectural concepts to technical and business stakeholders

- Ability to influence decisions across teams and geographies

- Comfortable working in ambiguous environments and balancing trade-offs between performance, cost, and compliance

Key Skills : .NET Core | Azure | Kubernetes | Microservices | React.js | Angular | DevOps | Architecture