Principal Architect

**Principal Architect**

**Location - Bangalore**

**ABOUT US**

Founded in 2014, Circles is a global technology company reimagining the telco industry with its SaaS platform - Circles X, helping telco operators launch and operate successful digital brands through its offerings.

Having pioneered a successful blueprint for disrupting the telco space in Singapore, Circles has since launched its own digital telco, Circles.Life, in Singapore, Taiwan and Australia. Circles has also partnered with other telco operators to launch digital services, enabling our partners to accelerate growth and capture market share within a short period of time.

Today, Circles is partnering with operators in 14 countries to deliver delightful digital experiences to millions of people through our businesses.

We are backed by global investors such as Sequoia, Warburg Pincus, EDBI Singapore and Founders Fund - renowned backers of industry-shakin innovators.

**As a key member of our team, your responsibilities include**:

- Layout the platform architecture vision and strategy to build out the Circles-X Operating System (CXOS) to be a truly SaaS telco operating system.
- Derive the short-, medium
- and long-term platform architectural roadmap with a robust/scalable architecture which provides the foundation in a truly extensible manner to successfully navigate our SaaS journey.
- Continuous monitoring of the architectural vision, strategy, roadmap, KPIs/OKRs and reporting the RAG status to the senior management at suitable intervals
- Provide architectural leadership and guidance, review and establish architectural principles to engineering and all stakeholders.
- Produce validated comprehensive architectural documentation and make them readily available to engineering teams.
- Ensure the architectural roadmap is fully aligned with the delivery plans
- Making sure that the architectural designs are viable both technically and commercially
- Be responsible for resolving architectural limitations/issues with zero/mínimal impact to the deliveries
- Proactively identify R&D needs to be competitive in the market and drive the execution of the same
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to bring out the best solution viable both technically and commercially
- Proactively identify deployment, performance and security issues by closely collaborating with DevOps/InfoSec/Perf and Scale teams
- Bring in industry best practices such as architectural auditing, quality gates, etc into the organization and come up with implementation plans.
- Evaluation and approval of any 3rd party software needs by assessing various aspects such as stability, performance, cost, licensing, etc
- Ability to be hands on and drive into the weeds on at least one of the following technology stacks and frameworks - Spring Boot-Java, Go Lang

**Requirements**:

- At least 15 years of experience with a proven track record, 5+ years of experience in the capacity of a Principal/Senior Software Architect.
- Degree/Masters in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent
- Telco domain experience and knowledge will be an added advantage
- Complete understanding and experience of Microservices based architecture design patterns and strategies
- Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns
- Domain Driven Design principles, Strategic and Tactical
- Software architecture patterns and anti patterns
- Evolutionary architecture
- Strategies to handle exponential scale
- Cloud based development and deployment
- Cloud native engineering principals
- SDLC activities (Analysis /Design/Development/Deploy)
- Source Control Systems ( GIT/SVN)
- CI /CD Pipelines
- Delivery methodologies - Scrum/Feature driven development, XP
- Databases (RDBMS/NOSQL)
- Data engineering
- Experience in collaboration with different stakeholders like vendors, product managers, developers
- Experience working with globally distributed teams
- Experience in hyper growth startups would be an advantage