Senior Solutions Architect

We are seeking an exceptional technical leader to spearhead the development of our scalable and high-performance services. This role involves collaborating with product management to envision future features and define solution architectures that align with business needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and deploy code supporting complex functional areas.
• Architect and implement modern world-class services that are highly available and fault-tolerant.
• Partner with product management to envision future features and help plan product roadmaps.
• Define solution architectures that align with business needs in collaboration with product management and engineering.

Leadership and Collaboration:

As a key member of our team, you will have a clear vision for the product/project and can develop a long-term strategy to achieve goals. You will provide technical expertise in software development and make informed decisions about the technical architecture and design to deliver value for the business.

You will champion technology and architecture-related investments, advocating for their priority. You will also facilitate collaborative design discussions and drive design reviews.

Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement:

Implement solutions that are high-quality, secure, and observable. Be an active contributor to the team, providing feedback on design, code, artifacts, and metrics.

Drive continuous improvement by enhancing architectural standards and best practices.

Build proof-of-concepts to validate approaches and assess emerging technologies.

Requirements:

• 15+ years of technical leadership experience, with 5-10+ years of experience in large-scale distributed system development, including hands-on operational experience.
• Experience driving engineering best practices for high-functioning software engineering teams through effective use of tools and automation.
• Possession of passion and expertise for building large-scale, back-end services and APIs, using modern architectures (Macro/Mini/Micro Services).
• Demonstrable knowledge of data structures, asynchronous architectures, and distributed algorithms.
• A strong understanding of software engineering principles and modern infrastructure operations.
• Ability to build robust, high-scale, generic, and reusable solutions.
• Experience mentoring and training an engineering community on development best practices.
• Familiarity with deployment and observability strategies that support continuous delivery and high availability in a cloud-native environment.
• An outcome-oriented approach using metrics and data to understand development productivity metrics.
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written, with strong relationship, collaborative, and organizational skills.

Technology Stack:

We are looking for someone with hands-on experience in the following technologies:

• Microsoft technologies: C# (.NET Core, .NET Framework), TypeScript & NestJS, Node.js.
• Microservices, event-driven architecture using Apache Kafka or any other event processing service.
• Modern UI frameworks: React.js, Angular.
• Cloud platforms (AWS preferred): EC2, S3, Lambda, EFS, ECS, EKS, API Gateway, SQS, IAM, VPC.
• CI/CD tools: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, YAML, PowerShell.
• GenAI technologies, including LLM fine-tuning, RAG architecture implementation, and prompt engineering.
• Relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with observability tools: Splunk, ELK Stack, DataDog.
• Strong understanding in technology and test strategy, Automated software testing – Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Cucumber, Specflow, Artillery, etc.
• Understanding of testing strategies: Unit Testing, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Test-Driven Development (TDD).