Chief Architect

Technical Architect

Experience:

10+ Years

Work Mode:

Onsite / Hybrid

Role Type:

Architecture + Hands-on Engineering + Technical Leadership

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced and hands-on

Technical Architect

who can define enterprise-widearchitecture, technology strategy, and engineering standards across multiple products and platforms.

The Technical Architect will translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions, guideengineering teams, reduce technical risks, and remain actively involved in implementation when required.

This is

not a purely advisory or documentation-focused role

. The successful candidate should becomfortable contributing directly to production-quality code, prototypes, critical modules, technical fixes,and architectural Proofs of Concept (PoCs).

Key Responsibilities

Define enterprise architecture strategy, target architecture, and technology roadmaps acrossproducts and platforms.

Design scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable software systems.

Architect cloud-native, distributed, microservices-based, and multi-tenant SaaS solutions.

Translate product and business requirements into architecture, technical designs, serviceboundaries, data models, and API contracts.

Establish architecture governance, coding standards, engineering best practices, and designprinciples.

Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, and technical risk assessments.

Identify scalability bottlenecks, security risks, performance issues, and technical debt.

Drive modernization initiatives and technology evaluations.

Guide technology selection and technical investment decisions.

Mentor Technical Leads, Senior Engineers, and other engineering team members.

Collaborate with Product, Engineering, QA, DevOps, Security, and business stakeholders.

Support technical estimation, solution feasibility, delivery planning, and architecture planning.

Hands-on Engineering Responsibilities

The Technical Architect must remain actively involved in engineering and should be capable of switchingbetween architecture and implementation depending on project requirements.

Responsibilities include:

Develop production-quality backend, frontend, or integration components when required.

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Build technical prototypes, PoCs, reference implementations, and reusable frameworks.

Assist engineering teams with complex technical and production issues.

Perform root-cause analysis and technical troubleshooting.

Contribute to performance and scalability improvements.

Implement or guide security fixes and critical technical modules.

Review existing codebases and recommend improvements.

Drive refactoring and modernization initiatives.

Conduct code reviews and establish implementation patterns.

Pair with engineers when required to translate architectural decisions into working software.

Remain comfortable moving between architecture, design, coding, reviews, and troubleshooting.

Core Technical Skills

Programming

JavaScript

TypeScript

Python

Go / Golang

Java

Spring Boot

Architecture & System Design

Microservices Architecture

Distributed Systems

Multi-Tenant SaaS

Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

API-First Architecture

Cloud-Native Architecture

Enterprise Application Architecture

Backend Engineering

Node.js

Express.js

REST APIs / Enterprise APIs

Identity Management

Authentication & Authorization

Messaging

Integration Architecture

Database & Data

MongoDB

Redis

Data Modeling

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Query Optimization

Performance Optimization

Frontend & Mobile

React.js

React Native

Cloud & DevOps

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Containerized Applications

Cloud-Native Deployments

Security

Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)

API Security

Encryption

Security Governance

Authentication & Authorization

AI & Emerging Technologies

LangChain

Gemini

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

AI Agents

OCR

Enterprise Integrations

Enterprise APIs

Payment Gateways

WhatsApp Business Integration

Third-Party System Integrations

These technologies and architecture areas are specified as the core technical expertise for the position.

Product & Engineering Expectations

The ideal candidate should have:

Strong experience building production-grade software products, not only isolated applications or

PoCs.

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Ability to balance ideal architecture with business timelines, budget, maintainability, and

engineering-team capabilities.

Experience working in evolving product environments with changing requirements and multiple

parallel initiatives.

Strong ability to evaluate technology options and explain technical trade-offs.

Ownership mindset with the ability to proactively identify and resolve technical problems.

Strong understanding of reliability, security, observability, performance, scalability, and

maintainability.

Ability to take architectural decisions from initial design through successful production

implementation.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

Mentor Technical Leads and Senior Engineers.

Establish and promote a strong engineering culture.

Define clear technical direction and engineering standards.

Lead architecture, design, and code reviews.

Participate in technical hiring and evaluation of senior engineering candidates.

Help establish technical interview and engineering assessment standards.

Evaluate architecture, coding, system design, and problem-solving capabilities.

Communicate architecture decisions, technical risks, dependencies, and delivery implications to

leadership.

Promote effective documentation of architecture decisions, APIs, dependencies, and operational

considerations.

Preferred Experience

Experience in one or more of the following areas will be preferred:

FinTech

SaaS Products

AI Platforms

Cloud-Native Applications

Enterprise-Scale Distributed Systems

Nice to Have

Kafka

GraphQL

Serverless Architecture

Machine Learning Platforms

Multi-Cloud Architecture

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a senior engineer and architect capable of operating at both strategic and

implementation levels.

Key Responsibilities

·       System Design: Design secure, scalable, and highly available multi-tenant cloud-based application architectures.

·       Integration Strategy: Build robust APIs, webhooks, and data pipelines for complex enterprise client connections.

·       Technical Guidance: Mentor software engineers and lead critical code and architecture reviews to ensure engineering excellence.

·       Performance & Security: Drive non-functional infrastructure needs including high uptime, strict data privacy compliance, and fast application response times.

·       Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Security, and Customer Success teams to align technical execution with business roadmaps.

Required Qualifications

·       Experience: 8+ years of experience in software engineering with at least 3+ years operating as a technical or solutions architect within a B2B SaaS environment.

·       Cloud & DevOps: Deep production knowledge of major cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), and modern CI/CD automation pipelines.

·       Architecture Patterns: Proven expertise designing microservices, event-driven architectures, and high-performance relational and NoSQL database structures.

·       Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex technical concepts clearly to both engineers and business stakeholders.

·       Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical work experience).

Preferred Skills

·        Prior experience managing architectural frameworks for enterprise compliance frameworks like SOC2, ISO 27001, or GDPR.

·        Background in building real-time data processing engines, stream frameworks, or integrating enterprise AI/ML components.

Technical Architect – Product Engineering

Experience: 15+ Years

Location: Pune, India

Employment Type: Full-time

Desired Skills: Python, Technical Architecture, AWS, Microservices, SaaS / Multi-tenant Architecture, Kubernetes, System Design

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Technical Architect to lead the architecture, design, and technical evolution of an enterprise SaaS product. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep technical expertise, strong product engineering experience, and the ability to build scalable, secure, and high-performance platforms.

The ideal candidate should be passionate about solving complex engineering problems, driving innovation, mentoring development teams, and effectively leveraging AI to accelerate software development.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the overall product architecture and technical roadmap.
• Design and build scalable, secure, and highly available enterprise applications.
• Lead the design and implementation of new product features from concept to production.
• Remain hands-on with coding and contribute to critical product components.
• Drive architecture reviews, code quality, performance optimization, and engineering best practices.
• Lead cloud architecture, security, scalability, and DevOps initiatives.
• Evaluate and adopt modern technologies to improve product capabilities and engineering efficiency.
• Leverage AI tools (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) to accelerate software development, code reviews, testing, documentation, debugging, and productivity.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 15+ years of software product engineering experience with at least 5 years in a Technical Architect role.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Python and modern backend frameworks.
• Deep experience with AWS services and cloud-native application architecture.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
• Experience designing microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with scalable SaaS platforms, multi-tenant architectures, and secure application design.
• Excellent understanding of software design patterns, performance tuning, observability, and system reliability.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Role Overview

We are looking for a visionary yet hands-on Technical Architect who can define enterprise-wide architecture,

technology strategy and engineering standards across multiple products and platforms. The role is expected to

translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions, guide engineering teams, reduce technical risk,

and remain actively involved in implementation when required. This is not a purely advisory or documentation role:

the Architect may be required to contribute directly to production-quality code, prototypes, critical modules, technical

fixes and architectural proof-of-concepts.

Key Responsibilities

• Define enterprise architecture strategy, target architecture and technology roadmap across products and platforms.

• Design scalable, secure, resilient and maintainable systems aligned with business and product objectives.

• Architect cloud-native, distributed, microservices and multi-tenant SaaS solutions.

• Convert product/business requirements into clear architecture, technical designs, service boundaries, data models

and API contracts.

• Establish architecture governance, coding standards, engineering best practices, design principles and technical

decision records.

• Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews and technical risk assessments.

• Identify bottlenecks, scalability concerns, security risks and technical debt, and drive practical remediation plans.

• Drive modernization initiatives, technology evaluation and technical investment decisions.

• Mentor and guide Technical Leads, Senior Engineers and other engineering members.

• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, QA, DevOps, Security and business stakeholders.

• Support estimation, technical planning, solution feasibility and delivery planning for new products and major

features.

Hands-on Coding & Engineering Responsibility

• The role is explicitly hands-on. When required by project priorities, the Technical Architect will contribute directly to

coding and implementation—not only architecture and reviews.

• Develop production-quality backend, frontend or integration components where architectural complexity, criticality or

delivery timelines require Architect-level involvement.

• Build technical prototypes, Proofs of Concept (PoCs), reference implementations and reusable frameworks to

validate architectural decisions.

• Assist engineers in debugging complex production or development issues and provide root-cause analysis.

• Contribute to performance optimization, scalability improvements, security fixes and critical technical modules.

• Review and improve existing codebases and guide refactoring/modernization without losing delivery focus.

• Pair with engineers when necessary to transfer architecture decisions into working code and establish

implementation patterns.

• Remain capable of switching between architecture, design, coding, review and technical troubleshooting based on

business/project requirements.

Core Technical Expertise

• Programming: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go (Golang), Java / Spring Boot

• Architecture: DDD, SOA, API-First, Distributed Systems, Multi-Tenant SaaS

• Backend: Node.js, Express.js, Identity, Authentication/Authorization, Messaging

• Data: MongoDB, Redis, Data Modeling, Query/Performance Optimization

• Frontend/Mobile: React.js, React Native

• AI: LangChain, Gemini, RAG, AI Agents, OCR

• Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD

• Security: SSDLC, API Security, Encryption, Governance

• Integrations: WhatsApp Business, Payment Gateways, Enterprise APIs

Product & Engineering Expectations

• Strong understanding of building production-grade software products rather than isolated applications or

proof-of-concepts only.

• Ability to balance ideal architecture with business timelines, budget, maintainability and team capability.

• Comfort working in an evolving product-company environment where requirements may change and multiple

initiatives may run in parallel.

• Ability to make pragmatic technology choices and clearly explain trade-offs to both technical and non-technical

stakeholders.

• Ownership mindset: identify problems proactively, propose solutions and follow through until the technical outcome

is delivered.

• Strong emphasis on reliability, security, observability, performance, scalability and maintainability from design

through production.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor Technical Leads and senior engineers and help establish a strong engineering culture.

• Set clear technical direction without creating unnecessary process or bureaucracy.

• Participate in hiring and technical evaluation of senior engineering candidates when required.

• Help define technical interview standards and assess architecture, coding and problem-solving capability.

• Work directly with leadership to communicate architecture decisions, technical risks, dependencies and delivery

implications.

• Promote documentation of important architecture decisions, APIs, dependencies and operational considerations.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in FinTech, SaaS, AI platforms, cloud-native architectures and enterprise-scale distributed systems.

Nice to Have

Kafka, GraphQL, Serverless, Machine Learning Platforms, Multi-Cloud Architecture.

What We Expect From the Right Candidate

The ideal candidate

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Principal Software Engineer – Java will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, mentoring and maintaining high-performance IT system for Hapag-Lloyd. The role requires deep expertise in Java and microservices-based architecture, along with a strong focus on code quality, performance, and scalability. The ideal candidate will be a passionate engineer who thrives in a Java development agile environment and brings a solution-oriented mindset to collaborative product development. As a senior technical expert, you will be responsible for low-level and high-level architectural design, mentoring developers, and working closely with team in Hamburg & Chennai. The ideal candidate is a passionate, solution oriented engineer with a proven track record in leading technical projects within an agile environment.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

9–14 years of hands-on experience in development using Java, JEE, JPA, JUnit, Kafka, and Microservices. Good Experience in AWS. Strong experience in architectural design – both low-level and high-level. Experience building distributed systems and working in microservices-based architecture. Proficient with Kafka and message-driven architecture. Strong experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL). Sound understanding of modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud deployment. Experience working in Agile/Scrum-based teams with exposure to software lifecycle tools (e.g., Git, Jenkins, JIRA).

Technical Skills Java, JEE, JPA, JUnit, Microservices Kafka (Desired), REST API development SQL, PostgreSQL Git, Maven, Jenkins (Desired), Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (eg. AWS)

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related discipline

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES & TASKS

Software Development & Design Design and develop scalable, reliable, and high-performance applications using Java, JPA, Kafka, Microservices, Junit, API and PostgreSQL. Lead low-level and high-level design discussions and decisions for scalable architecture. Build and maintain microservices architecture using industry best practices. Drive technology innovation. Write clean, efficient, well-documented code with high unit test coverage using JUnit.

Mentorship :

Mentor and guide developers and team members in coding standards, best practices, and problem-solving. Conduct regular code reviews, peer programming, and provide technical leadership to ensure code quality and continuous improvement.

Systems Integration & Tools:

Work with messaging systems such as Kafka to build real-time data processing services. Implement and optimize data access using SQL /PostgreSQL databases. Participate in the design and implementation of DevOps pipelines for CI/CD.

Quality, Testing & Documentation:

Conduct regular code reviews and participate in peer programming and Peer coding Review. Perform system testing, validation, and verification across development stages. Contribute to technical documentation throughout the software development lifecycle

Agile Collaboration & Continuous Improvement:

Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Scrum Masters, and developers in agile teams. Participate in sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos. Remain current on new technologies and drive adoption of best engineering practices across the team.

BEHAVIOURS & APPROACH

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Team-oriented with excellent communication and collaboration skills Passion for clean code, architecture, and continuous learning Ability to work independently with a proactive approach to problem-solving