Software Architect

Requirements :

- Architectural Leadership : 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience with deep focus on system architecture, distributed systems design, and large-scale platform development.

- SaaS Data Product Mastery : 5+ years specifically architecting SaaS data products at scale, with proven experience designing multi-tenant data platforms, real-time analytics systems, and customer-facing data APIs that serve thousands of concurrent users.

- Financial Systems Experience : Significant experience architecting trading platforms, market data systems, risk management infrastructure, or other mission-critical financial applications where accuracy, latency, and regulatory compliance are paramount.

- Streaming Architecture Expertise : Deep hands-on experience designing and implementing large-scale streaming architectures that handle high-volume, low-latency data processing with complex event correlation and state management.

- Cloud-Scale Impact : Proven track record of architecting systems that scale from thousands to millions of transactions, with experience in capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost-effective cloud resource utilization.

Technical Excellence :

- Streaming & Event Architecture : Expert-level expertise in designing event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Pulsar, and modern stream processing frameworks, with a deep understanding of exactly-once semantics, complex event processing, and distributed state management

- Data Architecture Mastery : Advanced expertise in designing data lakes, data meshes, real-time OLAP systems, time-series data models, and hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP) architectures optimized for financial workloads

- Java & High-Performance Computing : Deep proficiency in modern Java, JVM performance tuning, garbage collection optimization, and building ultra-low-latency applications that consistently achieve sub-millisecond response times.

- Cloud-Native Data Platforms : Extensive experience architecting on major cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) with deep knowledge of managed streaming services, serverless data processing, containerized stateful services, and cloud-native storage solutions.

- Distributed Systems Design : Expert understanding of distributed systems principles, including consensus algorithms, event sourcing, CQRS patterns, distributed caching strategies, and designing for eventual consistency in financial contexts.

- Database Architecture : Advanced knowledge of polyglot persistence patterns, database sharding strategies, time-series database optimization, and designing for both ACID compliance and high-throughput requirements.

- API & Integration Design : Deep expertise in designing robust API gateways, implementing complex webhook systems, managing service mesh architectures, and creating integration patterns that support thousands of concurrent connections.

- Event Sourcing at Scale : Deep expertise in implementing event sourcing patterns for financial systems, including snapshot strategies, event replay mechanisms, and handling billion-event streams.

- Security & Compliance Architecture : Strong understanding of zero-trust security models, data encryption at rest and in transit, audit logging frameworks, and designing systems that meet financial services regulatory requirements.

- AI-Assisted Development : Advanced experience leveraging modern AI architectural tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, Tabnine) to accelerate design documentation, code generation, and architectural decision-making while maintaining security and compliance standards.

Architectural Leadership :

- Design Methodology : Proven expertise in architectural frameworks (TOGAF, C4 Model, Event Storming, with experience leading architecture review boards, conducting technology assessments, and creating comprehensive architectural documentation.

- Technical Strategy : Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into technical strategy, create technology roadmaps, evaluate build-vs-buy decisions, and balance technical debt management with feature velocity.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration : Strong experience working with product managers, business stakeholders, compliance teams, and executive leadership to align architectural decisions with business objectives and regulatory requirements.

- Engineering Influence : Natural ability to influence and guide engineering teams through technical leadership, architecture evangelism, proof-of-concept development, and hands-on problem-solving during complex implementation challenges.

- Innovation & Pragmatism : Track record of introducing cutting-edge technologies while maintaining system stability, making principled architectural trade-offs, and ensuring solutions are maintainable by diverse engineering teams.

- Mentorship-Driven Architecture : Strong background in coaching senior engineers on architectural thinking, conducting design reviews, and facilitating architectural decision records (ADRs), and creating learning paths for complex distributed systems concepts.