Principal Solution Architect

**Job Title: - Principal Solution Architect**:
**Experience & Job Location**:

- Experience should be between 16 to 20 years.
- Bangalore - Hybrid

**Responsibilities**:

- Technical Leadership: Guide the technical direction of projects, ensuring alignment with company goals and industry best practices. Provide mentorship and support to engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
- System Architecture: Design scalable and reliable systems that support the company's cloud-based services. Evaluate emerging technologies and determine their suitability for integration into existing systems. Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, fault-tolerant, and meet performance objectives
- Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product management, software engineering, and operations to define requirements and prioritize features. Effective communication skills are crucial for conveying technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements
- Problem Solving: Tackle complex technical challenges, identifying innovative solutions to optimize performance, scalability, and security. Conduct thorough analysis and experimentation to validate design decisions. Address any issues or challenges that arise during project execution, working closely with both onshore and offshore teams to identify root causes and implement appropriate solutions in a timely manner
- Code Quality and Standards: Establish and enforce coding standards, ensuring that software components are well-designed, maintainable, and adhere to industry best practices. Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to maintain high code quality.
- Research and Development: Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and competitive landscapes. Explore new tools and methodologies to improve development processes and enhance product capabilities.
- Risk Management: Asses risks associated with technical decisions and propose mitigation strategies to minimize potential impact on project timelines and deliverables.
- Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of continuous improvement, advocating for the adoption of new tools, processes, and techniques to streamline development workflows and enhance productivity.
- Communication Facilitation: Serve as the primary point of contact between the onshore and offshore teams, facilitating communication and ensuring alignment on project goals, priorities, and technical requirements.
- Knowledge Transfer: Oversee knowledge transfer initiatives to ensure that offshore team members are equipped with the necessary skills and understanding of project architecture, design principles, and coding standards.

**Qualifications**:

- Proven experience as a developer and architect, Designing, develop and implementing cloud-based Java solutions using GCP.
- Must have demonstrated experience in designing, operating large workloads and performance tuning.
- In-depth knowledge of Java programming language, object-oriented design principles, and design patterns.
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably GCP.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure components like servers, databases, containers, and APIs.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Experience with DevOps principles and practices.
- Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Should have hands on experience in managing tech stacks including Java, Cloud, DevOps, Microservices
- Must have managed at least 4-5 architects across different technologies and has managed technology deliverables for over 30 members.
- Must have worked with US customers.
- Must have strong interpersonal skills and ability to scale team as per the business priorities.
- Must have hands on experience in executing business and technical roadmap.

**Bonus Points**:

- Experience with IoT based projects is a plus.
- Certification in cloud platform (GCP) or Java technologies.