Azure Solution Architect

Job Title: Principal Architect / Scalability Lead (AWS)

📍 Location: Gurgaon (Hybrid)

🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time

Role Overview

We are seeking a Principal Architect / Scalability Lead with deep expertise in AWS and large-scale distributed systems to architect and scale cloud-native products from MVP to enterprise scale.

This role demands a senior technical leader who has proven experience designing systems that handle high throughput, large concurrent workloads, and enterprise-grade reliability, while ensuring exceptional end-user experience.

You will work closely with Product, Data Engineering, AI/ML, and Backend teams to define architecture standards, scalability roadmaps, and engineering best practices.

Key Responsibilities

🏗 Architecture & Scalability Leadership

• Architect highly scalable, resilient, and high-performance cloud-native systems on AWS.
• Design distributed systems capable of supporting 100K+ concurrent users.
• Lead architecture evolution from MVP to enterprise-grade deployment.
• Translate business and consumer requirements into robust technical architecture.
• Drive scalability planning, capacity modeling, and performance engineering.

🔄 End-to-End Ownership

• Own full SDLC visibility from discovery and design to release, monitoring, and optimization.
• Establish best practices for:
• Microservices architecture
• Distributed systems design
• Observability & monitoring
• DevSecOps & CI/CD
• Ensure system uptime, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency.

☁ AWS Cloud & Infrastructure

• Design and implement scalable systems using AWS services.
• Lead containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Architect secure, automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive cloud cost optimization and infrastructure efficiency.

📈 Performance & Reliability Engineering

• Define and enforce SLAs, SLOs, and reliability metrics.
• Lead performance testing, load testing, and scalability validation.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks.
• Design fault-tolerant and highly available systems.

🧠 Backend, Data & AI Collaboration

• Provide architectural guidance for:
• Backend services using Node.js and Python
• Frontend platforms using React / Next.js
• Data platforms using Snowflake
• Collaborate with Data Engineering and AI/ML teams on data-intensive and AI-driven systems.
• Design architectures supporting asynchronous processing, caching, and event-driven workflows.

👥 Leadership & Governance

• Mentor senior engineers and guide architecture best practices.
• Lead architecture governance and design reviews.
• Influence senior stakeholders with data-driven technical decisions.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across Product, Engineering, Data, and AI teams.

Required Qualifications

• 8–15 years of experience in software engineering.
• Proven experience scaling distributed systems handling 100K+ users or high-throughput workloads.
• Deep hands-on expertise in AWS cloud architecture.
• Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
• Expertise in microservices, caching strategies, asynchronous processing, and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of performance engineering and reliability frameworks.
• Experience building enterprise-grade systems for large-scale organizations.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS, SNS, etc.).
• Knowledge of database scalability and data warehousing (Snowflake).
• Exposure to Data Engineering and AI/ML platforms.
• Strong stakeholder communication and strategic thinking skil

We’re looking for a .NET Core Developer who’s confident in their skills and ready to take on meaningful, real-world projects. If you're someone who enjoys solving problems, writing clean code, and working with Azure cloud services, we’d love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing:

• Building and maintaining scalable web applications using .NET Core
• Working with Azure services (like Functions, App Services, Logic Apps, etc.)
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deliver high-quality solutions
• Writing clean, testable, and efficient code
• Participating in code reviews and team discussions to improve practices

We’re looking for someone who has:

• 4.5 to 7 years of hands-on experience in .NET Core and C#
• Practical experience with Microsoft Azure – especially services like Azure Functions, App Services, Logic Apps, or Azure DevOps
• Good understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and SQL
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently or as part of a team

Why this role?

• Flexible hybrid work model – work from anywhere, come together when it counts
• Opportunity to work on innovative projects with a supportive team
• A space to grow, learn, and actually enjoy the work you do

About the job

Whirldata Inc. is an AI/Data Sciences/App Dev company established in 2017 to provide management and technology consulting services to small and medium enterprises across the globe. We are headquartered in California and our team works out of Chennai. The specific focus is on

1. Helping clients identify areas where Data Sciences and AI-based approaches can increase revenues, decrease costs or enhance customer engagement experience
2. Help clients translate business needs into process flows for exploratory and cutting-edge applications
3. Provide appropriate and targeted solutions that can achieve the planned objective

Whirldatas management team consists of individuals with a combined 45+ years of management and technology consulting experience, spanning multiple verticals such as finance, energy, retail, manufacturing and supply chain/logistics. Please look up our website and go through the blogs/videos/articles to find out more about us.

Working Philosophy

Whirldata works on the principle that, larger business goals come first and any technology-intensive solutions need to support necessary business goals. Hence all engagements start as a management consulting exercise and solution building follows after a thorough understanding of business needs.At Whirldata, we put our minds together, mix technology, art & math to deliver a viable, scalable and affordable business solution. We are passionate about what we do because we know that our work has the power to improve businesses. You can join our team working at the forefront of new technology, solving the challenges that impact both the front-end and back-end architectures, and ultimately, delivering amazing global user experiences.

Who we are looking for:

Full Stack Engineer (Position based in Chennai)

The following criteria are mandatory requirements and we strongly encourage that you apply only if you meet all these criteria:

1. Minimum 3 years of work experience

2. Proven capability to understand clients business needs

3. At least one demonstrable stint of architecting a database from scratch

4. Multiple programming language capabilities a must. In-depth knowledge of at least one programming language

5. Willingness to wear multiple hats depending on our business needs will be a priority

6. At least 2 years of hands-on experience in front-end development

7. Knowledge of current tools, platforms and languages an absolute must

8. Hands-on experience in cloud technologies and project management capabilities will be considered favourably

What do you get in return

• AI, Data Sciences and App dev require individuals who are both business and tech-savvy. We will turn you into one and make you a rockstar!
• You will get to work in an environment where your effort helps the customer and you will get to see it
• We will provide on-the-job training that will make you a doer and not a talker on data sciences, AI and app dev
• Opportunities to shine and pave your own way forward. We are good at identifying your talents and providing a platform where you will get immense satisfaction from demonstrating the same.
• Of course - we will pay you well too!

If you are interested - please apply with a small note with your thoughts on why you find this opportunity exciting and why you are willing to consider a move.

EXPERIENCE: 5 – 12 years

LEVEL: Senior & Lead Software Engineers

JOB LOCATION: EPAM India Locations

Must Have Skills :

1.      NET Full stack Developer (.NET, C#, JavaScript, Angular 4 & above, PostgreSQL)

2.      Experience in Unit testing

3.      Hands on experience with building RESTful Web APIs, micro services

4.      Experience in Asynchronous programming

5.      Good understanding of Authentication and Authorization models in Web APIs

6.      Good at Data structure and Algorithms.

7.      Experience with Entity framework.

8.      Added advantage: Experience in Azure

Technical Skills/Requirements

 Demonstrated expertise in building, shipping and supporting innovative, scalable

enterprise-class applications

 Strong familiarity with Object Orientation concepts

 Strong Experience in Java, J2EE, Core Java, Advance Java is must

 Strong Experience in working with database server is must

 Experience with web development frameworks like Spring is must.

 Experienced in using Websphere, WebLogic, JBOSS or TomCat application

servers

 Must be knowledgeable in at least one of the relational DBs (Oracle, DB2 or MS-

SQL)

 Experience is Javascript

 Experience in CSS, Angular, EXTJS, Bootstrap, JQuery is preferred

 Experience in JSP, Servlet, Tag Libray,, XSLT, Restful API’s is preferred

 Good understanding of Java, J2EE, SOA/Web services, EAI patterns, long

running business processes, UML and OOAD.

 4+ years of overall software development experience, preferably in a product

development company

• Planning and executing product marketing initiatives for the company's sellers
• Designing and improving acquisition, retention and referral journeys for sellers, across various products and services
• Conducting regular competitive analysis and identifying new possibilities to create seller-centric products
• Understanding conversion rate optimization principles and applying them to any revenue lines
• Developing understanding of consumer behavior and creating/ refining customer personas
• Keeping a track of marketing spend and revenue metrics across product lines and ensuring these are in sync with the overall business targets

What you need to have:

• Engg. from IITs, BITS Pilani, NITs or MBA from Tier 1 or Tier 2 Business schools
• 1-2 years of growth marketing experience is an advantage
• User-first mindset: you believe in gathering regular feedback from end users to improve business outcomes
• A zeal for quick execution and scale up
• Knowledge of tools (preferred but not necessary): Google Analytics, CRM, Power BI, MS Excel
• Ability to slice and dice data
• Extreme ownership
• Ability to speak your mind respectfully with fearless conviction
• A positive, can-do attitude
• Excellent problem-solving skills with deep attention to detail    

1. Proven 9+ years of work experience in managing software development (Android/PHP) 
2. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred.
3. Highly experienced with Agile development methodologies
4. Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies.
5. Strong problem solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job.
6. Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization.
7. Work well under pressure and be able to prioritize to meet deadlines and quickly shift priorities as necessary.
8. Ability to multi-task, work independently and demonstrate keen attention to details.
9. Team player attitude is mandatory.
10. High command in English Communication
11.  
12. Work on projects, build and manage diverse teams of engineers from different disciplines, formulate and execute strategies, and coordinate with other managers.
13. Plan, lead and manage a team of Software Engineers
14. Provide leadership to the core engineering team of product development professionals, to drive all pertinent issues related to the product development life cycle.
15. Build and execute the roadmap in terms of methodologies, development processes, and team enablement to enhance productivity and efficiency.
16. Apply knowledge of software engineering, programming, technologies, processes, and methodologies to develop, maintain and support the technical solutions.
17. Analyze problems and drive long term technology solutions to evolve the product scalability, performance, reliability and supportability
18. Partner with the Products team to contribute to the product strategy and support product vision
19. Planning and executing strategies for completing projects on time.
20. Researching and developing designs and products.