Senior Technical Architect

Company Description

ShepHertz Technologies offers an Enterprise Platform for Agile and Incremental Digital Transformation, operating across 9 countries and trusted by thousands of developers, studios, and enterprises in over 150 countries. The platform handles over 110 billion API calls, offering solutions for seamless omni-channel transitions, secure API exposure, and actionable big data analytics. With services available across public, dedicated cloud, hybrid, or on-premise implementations, ShepHertz simplifies application development and enhances operational efficiency for enterprises globally.

Senior Technical Architect Microservices & Workflow (Life Insurance Project)

Location: Mumbai

Experience Required: 15 years (Preferably life Insurance) or Any insurance domain

Already an Architect or next role would be an architect.

Should have knowledge of Architecture.

Good communication and smart as its a client facing role

About the Role:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Architect to design and govern a scalable, secure, API-led microservices architecture for a headless workflow solution in the banking domain. The solution will be hosted on AWS Cloud, built using Spring Boot microservices, and supported by a BPM / Workflow engine.

This role will own end-to-end architecture, technical decisions, and ensure non-functional requirements like security, performance, scalability, and compliance are met.

Key Responsibilities:

Define and own the overall system architecture for API / microservices-led solutions.

Design headless architecture integrated with BPM / Workflow engines.

Define microservices strategy, including:

• BFF (Backend for Frontend) microservices
• Domain / business microservices
• Integration and orchestration patterns

Establish API standards, versioning, and governance.

Design AWS cloud architecture (networking, security, scalability, HA).

Ensure banking-grade security, compliance, and audit readiness.

Guide teams on Spring Boot best practices, microservices communication, and data flow.

Review designs, code, and architecture decisions.

Collaborate with stakeholders, product owners, and backend teams.

Mentor senior developers and enforce architectural discipline.

Requirements & Experience:

15 years of overall architecture experience

Strong experience with:

• Microservices architecture
• Spring Boot
• API-led design
• BPM / Workflow engines (Camunda, Activiti, Flowable, etc.)

Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud (VPC, EC2, EKS, RDS, IAM, etc.)

Strong understanding of:

• BFF pattern
• Service orchestration vs choreography
• Caching strategies
• API security (OAuth2, JWT)

Experience in banking / financial services preferred

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills