Senior Software Architect

Key Responsibilities:

Own architecture for new and existing web platforms: conceptual, logical, and physical designs; reference architectures; technology roadmaps.

Design cloudnative solutions (AWS/Azure/GCP): multiregion patterns, resiliency, security, networking, storage, and cost awareness.

Define service boundaries and microservices topology; establish contracts, data models, integration patterns (REST/gRPC/events), and API governance.

Guide UI architecture for modern SPAs (React/Angular/Vue): state management, performance, accessibility, modularity, and designsystem adoption.

Lead backend architecture (.NET Core/Java/Node/Python): domain modeling, clean architecture, asynchronous processing, messaging, and persistence strategies.

Containerize & orchestrate services (Docker, Kubernetes) with robust deployment topologies, scaling, and runtime configurations.

Set engineering standards: design patterns, SOLID principles, clean code, secure coding (OWASP), performance and reliability best practices.

Establish observability: logging, metrics, tracing, SLOs/SLIs, error budgets; drive APM, alerting, and dashboards across services.

Champion DevSecOps: CI/CD pipelines, IaC (Terraform/ARM), automated testing, supplychain security, and release strategies (blue/green/canary).

Mentor and unblock teams: conduct design reviews, code walkthroughs, spike/prototype critical paths, and coach leads/engineers.

Collaborate crossfunctionally with Product, UX, QA, Security, and Platform/Infra to balance scope, risk, and timetovalue.

Document rigorously: ADRs, sequence diagrams, runtime views, threat models, and operational playbooks; keep architecture artifacts current.

Measure outcomes: drive NFRs (performance, scalability, reliability, security, cost), track KPIs, and iterate architectures based on data.

Key Skills and Experience:

12-15 years in web application development with handson experience across UI and backend; at least 46 years in architecture/techlead roles.

Cloud proficiency (AWS/Azure/GCP): compute, storage, networking, IAM, managed databases, serverless, containers; cost/performance tradeoffs.

Strong command of design patterns and SOLID principles; demonstrable application in real systems.

Proven experience with microservices architecture (service decomposition, data consistency, saga/Outbox, idempotency, API versioning).

Containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm/Operators; production deployments and runtime operations.

Frontend expertise: React or Angular (performance tuning, bundling, SSR/SSG as applicable), accessibility, secure clientside practices.

Backend expertise: one or more of .NET Core, Java/Spring, Node.js, or Python/FastAPI/Django; API design, async processing, queuing/eventing.

Data & integration: SQL/NoSQL, caching, messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ/Service Bus), API gateways, service mesh, authentication/authorization (OAuth2/OIDC).

Observability & reliability: instrumentation, tracing (OpenTelemetry), APM tools, resilience patterns (circuit breakers, retries, backoff).

Security mindset: threat modeling, OWASP Top 10, secrets management, least privilege, secure pipelines, compliance awareness.

Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and the ability to simplify complexity.

Other Functional Knowledge:

• Exposure to enterprise application development, integration, and API gateways.
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum practices, backlog management, and sprint ceremonies.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and cloud platforms (preferably Azure) is a plus.
• Knowledge of message brokers/queues (e.g., RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus) and eventdriven patterns is advantageous.
• Experience with eventdriven and CQRS architectures; data streaming and realtime analytics.
• Knowledge of domaindriven design (DDD); strategic/tactical patterns.
• Experience with serverless (Lambda/Functions), edge delivery (CDN), and zerotrust architectures.
• Exposure to ML/analytics integration patterns and feature flags/progressive delivery.
• Prior work in highthroughput or missioncritical environments.

Qualifications:

• Education and Experience
  • BE/BTech/BS or ME/MTech/MS degree in engineering field
• Proven ability to deliver highquality software in collaborative, fastpaced environments.
• Strong problemsolving aptitude and a productoriented mindset.
• Clear, concise verbal and written communication skills.