Lead Application and Product Architect

About the Role:
As a Lead in Application/Product Architecture, you play a crucial role in independently executing specialized architectural tasks and supporting broader team projects. Your focus will be on creating innovative, integrated architectural solutions that drive product excellence. You will be instrumental in ensuring quality outcomes through your expertise and leadership in technical planning, design, and implementation.

Experience: 12 to 16 yrs

Job Duties 

• Translates complex functional, technical, and business requirements into architectural designs including roadmap(s) of Future state architecture for one product/ services.
• Makes technology and product selection decisions for the cloud hosted SaaS product(s) based on the prioritized quality attributes of the desired systems.
• Understands CI/CD integration and define strategies for CI/CD like Gated Check-Ins and Deployments, Blue Green and Canary Rollout etc.
• Understands DevSecOps model and automated infrastructure management
• Develops high-level application designs including the technology proof of concepts / prototypes to validate and compare design alternatives and directs detailed design work of technical lead / developers. Performs cost/benefit and trade-off analyses of design alternatives.
• Ensure that the desired non-functional requirements are identified, and solution definition covers these attributes.
• Governs defined architecture and design for the product. Owns the Technical Debt prioritization for the product and works with technical lead closely.
• Guides software engineers in the implementation of selected designs and strategies including reviewing code for critical capabilities of the product/ service.
• Collaborates with IT operations teams in the design of deployments architecture and in the automation of deployments processes for the product
• Recommends strategies for SaaS monitoring, performance improvements, and capacity planning for the product

Job Requirements 

• Experience in building end to end architecture for large scale Cloud Native applications using preferably Azure or any other public cloud.
• Experience in trade off analysis and architectural decision making.
• Experience in using: CI/CD tools like ArgoCD, Terraform, Python, GoLang etc.
• Experience with DevOps, Cloud Services deployments, Security services and other Public Cloud infrastructure services
• Experience using: C#/.NET, MVC, SPA, JavaScript, TypeScript, MVVM (Aurelia/Angular), responsive, REST, HTML5, CSS3, node, TLS/SSL, MS-SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, CosmosDB, Redis; RabbitMQ or Enterprise Bus and/or other queuing technologies.
• Experience with Cloud Native services including IAAS / PAAS
• Experience with Kubernetes containers would be advantageous.
• Experience using security technologies, such as: Identity Server, SAML, JWT, Open ID Connect, and OAuth
• Experience working within Scaled Agile Framework or large multi-site, Agile environments
• Experience in development of platform products or reusable services

Skills:

• Specialized Architectural Knowledge: Advanced understanding of specialized application/product architecture.
• Independent Execution: Ability to independently execute and lead architectural tasks.
• Strategic Planning: Skilled in strategic technical planning and alignment with business goals.
• Comprehensive Design Tools Use: Proficiency in advanced design and architectural tools (e.g., Enterprise Architect).
• Quality Assurance Expertise: In-depth knowledge of ensuring and maintaining architectural quality.
• Advanced Problem-Solving: Proficient in identifying and resolving complex technical issues.
• Detailed Documentation: Ability to produce comprehensive and detailed technical specifications.
• Leadership: Strong leadership skills in guiding teams and supporting project success.