Principal Architect

Roles & Responsibilities: • Oversee daily technical challenges and communicate risks or issues to the project manager. • Translate business requirements into detailed system specifications. • System design and architecture adhering to the well architected framework principles. • Create and deliver high-level and low-level design specifications including logical / functional / data / deployment architectures, component architecture, etc. • Contribute towards the implementation aligning with the proposed architecture. • Responsible for design and development of reusable assets / components. • Collaborate with DevOps to build CI / CD pipelines. • Establish best practices, patterns, and guidelines to ensure that deliverables meet the highest quality. • Provide guidance and mentoring to the development team. • Participate in recruitment, training, and other organizational initiatives. • Engage with customers to address technical issues when necessary. • Collaborate with the Solutions Engineering team on RFPs and contribute towards the overall solutioning. • Keep up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies. • Regularly write technical blogs and articles. • Collaborate with other architects to drive the Architecture Review Board charter. Personality Traits: • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. • Ability to build rapport with team members and clients, strong team player. • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and technical troubleshooting skills. • Challenges the status quo and brings creative solutions to the table. • Self-driven and self-motivated. Mandatory Technical Skills: • Extensive experience in application development using the stacks – C#/.NET, Java / Spring, NoSQL/SQL, Node.js/React. • Hands-on experience of building APIs (REST and GraphQL). • Hands-on experience with frameworks like Spring framework (Core/Beans, MVC/REST, Security, Spring Data/JPA, Spring Test/JUnit, and JMS). • Proficiency in one or more databases covering RDBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server), NoSQL stores like Redis, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Cassandra. • Hands-on experience in designing, developing, and deploying Microservices (and event-driven architectures) using Spring Boot or similar frameworks; familiarity with Spring Cloud (Netflix OSS) components. • Hands-on experience on containerization (Docker) and detailed understanding on using orchestration systems like K8s. • Experience on implementing Observability in the applications and usage of tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Promtail, ELK, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor is a plus. • Hands-on experience in one or more clouds (AWS / Azure / GCP) including the development of highly scalable and resilient cloud-native applications. • System designing skills adhering to the well architected framework pillars. • Experience with build and dependency management tools like Maven/Gradle. • Understanding of DevOps / DevSecOps lifecycle. • Proficiency with static code analysis tools like SonarQube. Nice to Have Skills: • Design and architecture of streaming applications using Apache Kafka (Apache Pulsar) and processing frameworks like Apache Flink. • iPaaS Platforms: Experience with Mule CloudConnect, Dell Boomi, etc. • Familiarity with UI frameworks like Angular (2.x or above), React.JS, Vue.JS. • Microservices patterns like CQRS/Event Sourcing and handling distributed transactions using Saga patterns. • Knowledge of Enterprise architecture frameworks like TOGAF or Zachman. Years of Experience • 20+ Yea Skills: Data Modeling, Api Development, Agile Methodologies, Technical Leadership, Enterprise Integration, Cloud Architecture, Security Protocols Experience: 20.00-25.00 Years