R&D Cloud Platform Senior Architect

Role Summary: We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Software Architect to lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance financial technology solutions. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud computing, and modern software architectures. They will play a critical role in shaping the technical vision, driving architectural excellence, and mentoring engineering teams.

The role requires defining, challenging, and implementing functional and non-functional requirements and liase with project stakeholders to ensure high quality and timely delivery of a Digital Cloud platform(s).

Minimum Qualifications

Design Acumen:

1. Deep understanding of distributed system architecture and best practices.
2. Strong knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA).
3. Solid understanding of security best practices and compliance in fintech solutions.
4. Strong understanding of microservices architecture.
5. Focus on Non-Functional Principles like Maintainability, Quality, Performance, Security etc

Soft Skills:

o Experience in fintech, banking, or payment systems.

o Strong understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements in the financial sector.

o Proven ability to lead technical teams and influence decision-making.

o Strong problem-solving skills and ability to handle complex architectural challenges.

o Pro-active learning of emerging technologies and drive innovation within the organization

Total Experience Expected: 14-18 years

What you will do

o Design and develop distributed architectures for high-availability fintech applications with SaaS approach.

o Lead cloud-native development, leveraging Kubernetes, and AWS services.

o Architect and implement event-driven and microservices-based systems.

o Write code to develop and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient applications.

o Define, develop and challenge application design strategies.

o Enable teams to follow effective development workflows.

o Engineer with DevSecOps best practices, ensuring efficient CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies.

o Provide technical leadership and mentor engineering teams on software design principles.

o Collaborate with product, business, and engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

o Ensure Product Quality including TDD, Contract test, JUnit, etc.

o Effective technical presentation to stakeholders.

Technical Skills:

o Expert-level proficiency in Java 11 and hands-on experience in backend development.

o Strong expertise in Spring Boot.

o Extensive experience with NoSQL and SQL databases such as MongoDB, Redis and PostgreSQL.

o Proficiency in messaging systems like Kafka.

o Experience with TypeScript for front end development and K6 test automation.

o Good to have experience with:

Reactive Programming

Helm

ArgoCD

Gitlab CI

Front-end frameworks like Angular