Role & Responsibilities:

- Design and define scalable, secure, and high-performance software architectures aligned with business and technical requirements.

- Lead the architecture and technical design of complex applications, platforms, and distributed systems.

- Translate business requirements into technical solutions, architecture diagrams, technology choices, and implementation roadmaps.

- Define coding, design, integration, security, performance, and scalability standards across engineering teams.

- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to software engineers and senior developers.

- Review existing systems and identify opportunities for modernization, optimization, and technical debt reduction.

- Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies, frameworks, cloud services, and third-party solutions.

- Work closely with Product, Engineering, DevOps, QA, Security, and Business teams to ensure successful delivery.

- Establish and enforce best practices for API design, microservices, databases, cloud architecture, CI/CD, observability, and system reliability.

- Conduct architecture and code/design reviews and ensure adherence to established technical standards.

- Identify technical risks, scalability bottlenecks, security concerns, and performance issues, and define mitigation strategies.

- Drive architectural decisions and document key technical decisions, trade-offs, and system designs.

- Participate in technology strategy, proof-of-concepts, and evaluation of emerging technologies.

- Support engineering teams during implementation and help resolve complex technical challenges.

- Ensure solutions meet requirements for availability, scalability, maintainability, security, and cost efficiency.

Preferred Candidate Profile:

- 8 - 10 years of experience in software development, system design, technical leadership, or software architecture.

- Strong experience designing and developing large-scale, distributed, and highly available applications.

- Strong knowledge of software architecture and design patterns, including microservices, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, and API-based architectures.

- Proficiency in at least one major programming language such as Java, C#, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, or C++.

- Strong understanding of REST APIs, databases, caching, messaging systems, authentication, authorization, and integration patterns.

- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.

- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and cloud-native technologies is preferred.

- Strong understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases and database architecture.

- Experience with system performance optimization, scalability, reliability, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

- Ability to make architecture decisions by evaluating technical trade-offs, cost, scalability, security, and maintainability.

- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical direction to development teams.

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