Enterprise Architect

As a member of the NAF Tech team, you will play a crucial role in enabling engineering autonomy, designing scalable systems, and fostering innovation. Your responsibilities will include: - **Enable Engineering Autonomy**: - Support India-based engineering teams with architectural direction and decision-making during US-based counterparts" offline hours. - **Architect with Purpose**: - Design scalable, secure, and maintainable systems using modern architectural principles like Event Driven Design and Domain Driven Design. - **Communicate with Clarity**: - Translate complex technical ideas into clear documentation and presentations for both technical and non-technical audiences. - **Collaborate Across Boundaries**: - Partner closely with product managers, tech leads, and senior stakeholders to align business goals with technical strategy. - **Lead by Example**: - Guide teams through code reviews, solution design, and mentorship. - **Improve Through Documentation**: - Create and maintain robust system diagrams and architecture documentation. - **Foster Innovation**: - Stay updated on emerging technologies and bring insights into our technical strategy. - **Strengthen Observability & Reliability**: - Collaborate to enhance monitoring, alerting, and operational health of systems. - **Support Integration Needs**: - Design and oversee integrations with internal services and external vendor platforms. Your core competencies should include: - 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 technologies like .NET Core (C#), React, Angular, Azure Cloud Services, Cosmos DB, SQL Server, ElasticSearch, etc. - Strong understanding of performance, scalability, microservices architecture, domain-driven design, event-driven design, and CQRS. - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. - Proven experience in writing technical documentation and mentoring technical teams. Nice to have/desired skills: - Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect or Azure Developer Associate. - Familiarity with 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.,