Principal Architect

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

**Job Description**:
**JOB DESCRIPTION**:

- Develop a solution proposal for business requirement considering functional, integration, hosting and non-functional requirements
- Compare and contrast digital platforms and aid in platform selection for clients
- Ensure tech feasibility on implementing a solution considering technical feasibility and project constraints of scope of work, cost, timeline, team
- Strategize building of reusable code and libraries for future use
- Present new tech platforms and upcoming technology trends to tech teams
- Explore, socialize and spearhead implementation of tools and accelerators for building efficiencies
- Develop show & tell POCs and demos for new ideas/technology concepts
- Actively participate in hiring and capacity building
- Continuously recommend improvements to tech implementation
- Communicate with client, business and internal stakeholders in presenting solution approach, clarifying open questions and resolving conflicts
- Estimation of effort and drive standardization across the organization
- Control quality of solution and success of projects through architecture governance

**Skill Areas**:
**Architectural Design**:

- Should be well versed and have implemented Microservices and serverless architecture
- Uses notations suggested by the latest industry standards and tools.
- Expert in designing for performance, security, high availability, scalability, loose coupled
- Excellent in communication and presenting ideas
- Based on the use cases should be able to create logical architecture
- Should have good exposure to one or more digital platforms in Web CMS, e-commerce, Digital Asset Management, PIM/MDM, CDP, campaign, CRM systems
- Should be fully conversant with OOAD
- Should have good handle on UML notations
- Ability to define ground-up architecture

**Integration Design**:

- Should have designed interfaces for third party integration using GraphQL, REST, SOAP and Flat file based
- Should have hands-on integration experience with third party services like Payment Gateways, Tax calculator, live chat, address finders, ERP, OMS etc..
- Good understanding of Front-end technologies - HTML/CSS, Javascript, Ajax, Angular, React
- Good understating of integration frameworks for single sign-on,

**Data Modeling & Database design**:

- Demonstrates a good understanding of data modeling.
- Able to create a portion of the Logical Data Model (LDM) and/or Physical Data Model (PDM).
- Should have done Database design for large multi-country, multi-language website
- Good understanding of Relational and Non-Relation databases

**Network, Security, Infrastructure & high availability**:

- Ability to understand security concepts, issues and resolutions
- Ability to define physical architecture for scalability
- Good understanding of atleast 2 leading App/webservers Nginx, IIS
- Should have used automated tools for unit testing, code review, automated build and deployment
- Has hands-on implementation experience designing for redundancy to avoid single point of failure in solutions on at least one technology stack along with an ability to compare alternatives in a given situation and proposes the best solution for the need at hand within the technology stack options.
- Demonstrates good knowledge of alternatives available across multiple technologies within the open source and commercial world, evaluates them, and successfully proposes the best solutions that fit client’s needs.
- Should have planned and implemented CDN like Akamai

**Performance and Capacity planning**:

- Excellent solution design in one of AWS or Azure or Google Cloud platform using services
- Can explain performance and capacity planning concepts and processes
- Can drive the evaluation of performance monitoring tools based on open source or commercial products and recommend tools that are optimal for project requirements.
- Can carve out critical transactions of the system and map them to user and volume load.
- Can map out various performance criteria for critical transactions and generate inputs for generating the TPM-C statistics.
- Can develop tools and/or fact sheets and usage of industry wide techniques that would help mode and drive the TPM-C and the capacity requirements for the hardware.
- Good understanding of physical architecture. Experience in capacity planning, redundancy and high availability models

**Core Development**:

- Should have enough hands-on experience to design & implement POCs in Dot Net
- Should have got hands-on experience integrating webservices
- Good knowledge on.Net tech stack - ASP.Net, C#,ODBC, multi-threading
- Good trouble shooting skills through analyzing thread and heap dumps
- Good experience with IDE &Source control like Visual Studio, Team foundation

**Team interaction & growth**:

- Identify talent both internal and external and build capability and capacity
- Provide frequent feedback on tech team through project managers
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