Technical Architect

The Technical Architect designs and governs platform architecture with a focus on DevSecOps automation, observability, reliability, cloud modernization, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption. The TA defines templates, guardrails, and standards that enable consistent provisioning, monitoring, and deployment of workloads.

The role evaluates modernization opportunities, conducts proof-of-concepts, and ensures platform capabilities are shared, consistent, and scalable across multiple business lines and environments (cloud and on-prem). The Technical Architect also guides DevSecOps and SRE Leads in their execution responsibilities and ensures alignment with the overall platform roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain platform architecture standards for DevSecOps, SRE, observability, and Infrastructure as Code
  
• Define platform architecture and guardrails for DevSecOps, IaC, observability, and reliability engineering
  
• Regularly review golden templates for CI/CD, IaC modules, monitoring dashboards, platform automation patterns, and alerting frameworks
  
• Own the DevSecOps architecture charter, operating model, and governance structure
  
• Define observability standards for logs, metrics, traces, alerting rules, and dashboards
  
• Collaborate with DevSecOps leads to integrate security automation into pipelines (scanning, linting, policy checks)
  
• Review engineering requirements and ensure alignment with platform design and guardrails
  
• Maintain engineering documentation including component diagrams, architecture flows, templates, and version history
  
• Maintain the platform capability roadmap and technical architecture documentation across IIFL entities
  
• Provide technical guidance during issue escalations and major platform-related incidents
  
• Evaluate new platform tools and drive adoption aligned with reliability, automation, and cost optimization goals
  
• Guide engineering teams on performance, resiliency, and scalability design decisions
  
• Act as the final technical decision authority for DevSecOps and SRE
  

Team Dedication Key Skills

Domain Expertise

• Experience defining observability frameworks (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards)
  
• Knowledge of compliance and security integrations (signed artifacts, scanning, policy-as-code)
  
• Understanding of resiliency and reliability patterns (circuit breakers, rollback strategies, traffic shaping)
  
• Knowledge of networking and platform components such as API gateways, firewalls, load balancers, DNS, NAT
  
• Familiarity with FinOps basics (environment cost visibility and optimization levers)
  
• Deep hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, containerized application deployment models, clusters, service deployment, auto-scaling, and platform networking
  
• Advanced Infrastructure as Code patterns using Terraform, Ansible, and Helm (multi-env, multi-cloud provisioning)
  
• CI/CD architecture for hybrid environments using GitLab, GitHub, Azure DevOps, and Jenkins
  
• Observability engineering including APM, distributed tracing, logs/metrics, dashboards, and alerting
  
• Knowledge of reliability frameworks such as SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, auto-scaling, rollback strategies, and canary deployments
  
• Awareness of cloud and regulatory compliance requirements (RBI, CERT-IN, DPDP, PCI DSS)
  

Mindset and Behavior

• Platform-first mindset focused on consistency, reuse, and standardization
  
• Strong problem-solving ability; breaks down complex issues into structured steps
  
• Avoids over-engineering and favors maintainable, scalable solutions
  
• Operates with clarity and provides actionable guidance to engineers
  
• Strong bias towards automation and elimination of manual intervention
  

Individual Skills

• Hands-on ability to create architecture diagrams, configuration templates, and sequence flows
  
• Ability to convert PoC outcomes into platform-wide best practices
  
• Strong analytical skills to compare multiple solution approaches
  
• Excellent documentation skills for standards, guardrails, and usage guides
  
• Ability to mentor developers and engineers without micromanagement
  

Agile / Digital Experience

• Works as part of agile platform squads and delivers incrementally
  
• Ability to convert technical work into backlog items with clear acceptance criteria
  
• Experience integrating architecture deliverables into Jira and release cycles
  
• Familiarity with automation-first and shift-left engineering practices
  
• Experience working with cross-functional squads following DevOps / DevSecOps ways of working