Cloud Software Architect

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced professional to lead our software architecture team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cloud-based technologies, with expertise in AI-powered software systems.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain scalable, maintainable, and high-performance software systems using cloud-based technologies.
• Analyze product and technical user stories, and convey technical specifications in a concise and effective manner.
• Code and deliver working products with a first-time right approach.
• Participate in release planning, sprint planning, and technical design reviews; provide input as appropriate.
• Partner with engineers, product managers, and other team members to achieve project goals.
• Develop and maintain thorough knowledge and understanding of products and technologies.
• Drive key architectural decisions and design considerations.
• Implement automation frameworks to improve productivity of engineers.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and provide detailed RCA.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience with active hands-on development experience in Microsoft Technology stack using C#.
• Strong experience developing Microservices, RESTful services (preferably AWS).
• Experience with AWS core services: Lambda, ECS (Elastic Container Service), SNS (Simple Notification Service), SQS (Simple Queue Service), DynamoDB.
• Expertise in CloudWatch (monitoring and logging), cost management tools, and IAM for managing user permissions and security protocols.
• Strong TDD approach and hands-on experience on tools like Nunit, xUnit or any other testing tools or frameworks and CICD practices.
• Strong in OOP and SOLID design principles.
• Experience in working on projects with public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.
• Proficient experience with relational databases such as Microsoft SQL Server/Postgres.
• Highly efficient data persistent design techniques. Strong understanding of data retrieval performance (queries, caching). Able to optimize designs/queries for scale.
• Should have work experience with Agile practices.
• AWS experience must
• Good understanding on how to deal with concurrency and parallel work stream.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Passion for continuous process and technology improvement.
• AWS Certification preferable.

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of Elasticsearch and querying logs in Splunk.
• Exposure to ORMs like Entity Framework, Nhibernate or similar
• Understand AWS core services and basic architecture best practices.

Key Performance Indicators:

- Develop, maintain and enhance .NET applications and services to contribute to our legacy and cloud platform.

- Analyze product and technical user stories and convey technical specifications in a concise and effective manner.

- Code & deliver a working product, with a first time right approach.

- Participate in release planning, sprint planning, and technical design reviews; provide input as appropriate.

- Partner with engineers, product managers, and other team members as appropriate and be the go-to person for technical matters.

- Develop and maintain thorough knowledge and understanding of products.

- Leading projects as necessary, increasing team productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.

- Drive key architectural decisions and design considerations.

- Partner with other Architects and Manager to come up with setting technical guidelines and participate in code reviews to mentor other engineers on best practices.

- Partner with Product to do early feasibility of technical architecture.

- Partner with other Architects to build necessary frameworks to improve productivity of the engineers by driving automation.

- Introduce newer technologies as needed along with a strong POC and build a strong use case for more adoptability.

- Troubleshoot complex production issues and provide detailed RCA.

- Participate in agile activities like sprint planning, and technical design reviews; provide input as appropriate.

What We Offer:

We offer a dynamic and supportive work environment, competitive salary, and opportunities for career growth and professional development.

How to Apply:

Please submit your resume and cover letter to us.