Job Title: Software Architect

Location: Coimbatore/Chennai/Bangalore

Job Type: Full-Time

Job Description:

Core Responsibilities:

• Design and oversee the implementation of scalable and robust software solutions.
• Analyze functional requirements and technical specifications to create clear architecture and actionable solutions for engineering team to implement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business goals and technical strategy.
• Develop comprehensive architectural solutions that serve as blueprints for system development.
• Provide technical leadership and support to Engineering and Support teams.
• Define all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards
• Oversee progress of engineering team to ensure consistency with architecture.
• Document all architectural designs and analysis for future reference.
• Stay updated with the latest technologies and trends to ensure solutions are current and competitive.
• Ensure software meets all requirements of quality, security, modifiability, extensibility etc.
• Implement best practices which helps in better maintainability of the application.

Team Management Responsibilities

• Communicate status of architecture solutions and reports up the management chain
• Provide consistent team goals & objectives
• Continually seek to identify, remove impediments to progress and success
• Provide guidance and direction to all members of the Agile teams
• Provide mentoring and career development to individual team members of every discipline and experience level
• Champion initiatives to consistently improve architecture skills of engineering teams

Required Skills:

• Experience with event-driven architecture and enabling technologies such as Kafka or other JMS-based message/event brokers.
• Experience in deploying Modern Server Frameworks such as Node or Spring Boot, Java
• Expertise in Modern Web UI Frameworks such as Angular or React
• Expertise in Microservices design and architecture
• Knowledge of REST APIs established best practices
• Knowledge of Design Principles and Patterns
• Practical experience with unit testing
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders(very important).
• Excellent knowledge cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, GCP
• Excellent knowledge in databases like MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Cassandra
• Experience in building platforms rather than building point solutions

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Software Architect or similar role.
• 15+ years of experience within software engineering and 5+ years of experience in Software Architecture with building omnichannel, microservices based architecture
• Prior experience in building enterprise scale Web & Mobile Applications.
• Experience in building generalised, parameterised and configuration driven system that can cater to more than one use case.