Senior Product Architect

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.

About the Role

We are looking for a Solution Architect with 10–15 years of experience to design scalable, secure, and cloud-ready solutions. The role involves working with customers, Senior Solution Architects, business analysts, project managers, and engineering teams across cloud, modernization, microservices, integration, and digital transformation initiatives.

Must Have Skills

• 10–15 years of experience in software development, architecture, and enterprise application delivery.
• Strong experience with Azure and/or AWS and cloud-native architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Microservices, REST APIs, SOA, and system integration.
• Experience in application modernization and cloud migration.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Understanding of cloud security, IAM, networking, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to create architecture diagrams, solution designs, and technical documentation.
• Strong analytical, communication, and customer-facing skills.

Good To Have Skills

• AWS/Azure certifications.
• Experience with Serverless, Event-Driven Architecture, Messaging, and API Management.
• Exposure to SaaS / Multi-Tenant Architecture.
• Knowledge of Generative AI and AI-enabled solutions.
• Experience with pre-sales, POCs, estimations, and technical proposals.
• Exposure to application security and compliance.
• Experience working with global customers and distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solutions and independently own defined architecture workstreams.
• Translate business and technical requirements into application, cloud, integration, and deployment designs.
• Define microservice, API, integration, and data-flow architectures.
• Guide engineering teams on architecture implementation and conduct design/code reviews.
• Contribute to cloud migration, modernization, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Participate in customer workshops, technical discussions, POCs, and solution demonstrations.
• Identify and address architectural, performance, security, and technical risks.
• Ensure solutions follow defined architecture, security, and engineering standards.
• Work closely with the Senior Solution Architect on complex and strategic engagements.
• Develop reusable architecture patterns, templates, and technical accelerators

Next

Skill: Java Architect

Location: Pune Baner Office

Note: Client F2F is mandate

Budget:33 LPA

Experience: 10+ Years

Mandate Skills- Cloud+ Java Architect

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a Technical Architect, having strong software design and development experience of 9+ years on Core Java, Spring Boot, REST API, AWS & Microservices.

Technical Skills: 

Proficient in software Design and development and familiar with technologies - Java, Java-J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Ajax, REST API, Microservices etc.

Working knowledge of JVM internals

Working knowledge in Mongo DB

Working knowledge of any database (MySQL or HSQLDB)

Working knowledge of No-SQL database (Mongo or Dynamo DB)

Working experience with messaging (JMS/RabbitMQ) 

R & D on new advanced cloud-based technologies in a test-driven agile development.

Experience in designing and architecting systems with high scalability and performance requirements

Ability to design infrastructure for performance evaluation and reporting of cloud-based services, namely AWS

In depth knowledge of key AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch etc.

Certification on AWS architecture desirable

Roles and Responsibilities: 

Participate and contribute in platform requirements/story development.

Contribute to the solutioning, design and design alternatives to the requirements/stories and also participate in design reviews.

Involve in Platform Sprint activities.

Development of assigned stories in appropriate languages defined for each module.

Participate in peer code reviews 

Develop use cases and do unit test cases and execute them part of continuous integration pipeline.

Understand stack deployment and resolve issues with components in stacks across the ecommerce platform.

Process Skills: 

Agile – Scrum and Test-Driven Development

Qualification:

Bachelor of Engineering (Computer background preferred)

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.

Job Description: 

Lead regional transformation programs, driving the entire solution architecture lifecycle, 

from conceptualization to execution, with a focus on agile and DevOps practices. 

Accountable for leading the IT Architecture for all projects and programs, focusing on 

innovative business and IT solutions in the insurance domain, such as new-age digital 

platforms, cloud-native applications, AI/ML-powered decision-making, and data-driven 

insights.

Preferred skills  

• Demonstrated expertise in developing cloud-native, microservices-based, and API

driven insurance solutions, leveraging modern architectural patterns and emerging 

technologies such as AI/ML, big data, and IoT. 

• Thorough understanding of common patterns, frameworks, and reference 

architectures for the Insurance domain, with a focus on digital transformation and 

innovation. 

• Proven experience in leading regional transformation programs, driving the adoption 

of agile and DevOps practices. 

• Asia regional experience is an advantage.

Qualifications 

Minimum Bachelor's degree, preferably with a Master's degree in Computer Science, 

Engineering, or a related discipline. 

• 15+ years of IT experience, with a minimum of 7+ years in the insurance industry, 

focusing on the application of emerging technologies.

Position

Solution Architect/Technical Architect

Experience

·       12 - 16+ years of overall IT experience

·       Significant hands-on experience working as a Solution/Technical Architect

Education

·       B.Tech / M.Tech / MCA / MBA or equivalent

Certifications

·       TOGAF® certification (Level 1/2) preferred to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards

·       Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) and other supporting certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-400, or AZ-500 preferred.

Key Responsibilities

·       Define and evolve the target architecture for .NET-based distributed platform.

·       Architect highly configurable solutions on Azure with strong focus on scalability, tenant isolation, resilience, maintainability, and speed of delivery.

·       Lead solution design across ASP.NET Core services, REST APIs, event-driven workflows, background processing, integration patterns, and shared platform capabilities.

·       Drive adoption of modern .NET and cloud-native patterns including microservices, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, API-first design, and secure service-to-service communication.

·       Partner with engineering teams on real implementation decisions, review critical designs and code paths, and provide hands-on guidance for performance, operability, and production readiness.

·       Architect Azure-native deployment patterns using AKS, containers, API Management, Service Bus/Event Grid or equivalent messaging, Key Vault, managed observability, and CI/CD automation.

·       Work with data and platform teams on PostgreSQL-backed service design, data access patterns, caching strategies, and database performance for high-volume transactional workloads.

·       Define non-functional requirements and architecture guardrails around performance, scalability, availability, recoverability, security, compliance, and cost efficiency.

·       Embed DevSecOps and observability into platform design through telemetry, tracing, alerting, diagnostics, secrets management, and release governance.

·       Evaluate emerging technologies, AI-assisted engineering enablers, and modernization options pragmatically, with clear build-vs-buy and risk-reward trade-offs.

·       Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, contribute to architectural governance, and create reusable patterns, reference implementations, and standards across teams.

·       Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

·       12–16 years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or platform engineering, with significant experience in Microsoft technology stacks.

Essential Qualification and Skills

·       Strong hands-on expertise in C#, .NET / .NET Core / .NET 8, ASP.NET Core, Web APIs, background services, and enterprise application design.

·       Deep experience in architecting distributed systems using microservices, asynchronous messaging, event-driven design, and API-led integration patterns.

·       Strong Azure architecture experience, preferably across AKS, App Services, Functions, API Management, Key Vault, Service Bus, Event Grid, Storage, monitoring, and identity integration patterns.

·       Experience designing and supporting platforms, configurable product architectures, and integration-heavy enterprise solutions.

·       Strong understanding of relational databases and performance engineering, especially SQL Server and/or PostgreSQL, including schema design, indexing, query tuning, and transaction handling.

·       Solid grasp of non-functional architecture including performance, scalability, availability, fault isolation, observability, and disaster recovery.

·       Strong understanding of application and platform security including authentication, authorization, secrets management, encryption, secure coding, and compliance-oriented design.

·       Experience with containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and modern DevSecOps practices.

·       Ability to make sound architecture decisions with a balance of pragmatism, delivery speed, engineering quality, and long-term maintainability.

·       Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across product, engineering, architecture, operations, security, and client-facing teams.

Skills & Competencies

·       Experience in insurance, Insurtech, BFSI, or other regulated, transaction-heavy domains.

·       Exposure to policy administration, billing, accounting, claims, workflow orchestration, or reporting platforms within the insurance value chain.

·       Experience with architecture frameworks and modelling approaches such as TOGAF, domain-driven design, UML, C4, or equivalent practical architecture methods.

·       Familiarity with mixed technology landscapes involving .NET, Java/Spring Boot, enterprise workflow tools, and integration ecosystems.

·       Experience with observability and reliability tooling such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Application Insights, Open Telemetry, Grafana, or similar.

·       Working knowledge of Angular, React, or modern web application architecture patterns.

·       Exposure to AI-enabled engineering, intelligent automation, or embedding AI capabilities into enterprise platforms.

·       Leadership experience across globally distributed or virtual teams.

Read This Before Anything Else

We have 6 developers who can ship. What we don't have is someone who turns that into a real engineering function: real architecture, real leverage, real AI-driven advantage. If that gap sounds like an opportunity rather than a headache, you're in the right place. If it sounds like a lot of undefined work with no playbook handed to you, this one probably isn't for you. That's completely okay. There are plenty of great roles that fit differently.

About CraftMyPlate

CraftMyPlate is Hyderabad's go-to platform for food experiences for micro-events: house parties, birthdays, office celebrations, festive gatherings, and more. We're building the operating system for how India discovers, customises, and orders food for smaller events. We're backed by established founders and investors, and we're funded and growing fast. The next phase of that growth runs through engineering.

Where We Stand

Some numbers, because they matter more than adjectives. Order volume has grown 50x in two years, and we're compounding at roughly 3x year over year, without giving up equity to fund it. That means the business runs on its own economics. The growth is real demand, not runway bought with dilution, and every efficient architectural decision this role makes directly protects that.

Most people size up an opportunity by asking what's going to change in ten years. The more useful question, and the one this company is built around, is what won't change. People will keep gathering. They'll keep celebrating, hosting, and marking festivals, in 10 years and in 20. That permanence is the bet. You're not building infrastructure for a trend cycle. You're building for a category that outlasts the current AI wave, the next funding round, and probably us too.

The Technical Reality

Here's an honest read of the engineering problem, not a sanitized version of it.

Event-driven commerce doesn't scale like typical e-commerce. Demand isn't smooth, it's spiky: weekends, festival calendars, and event dates create real load concentration, and each order is tied to a hard deadline that can't slip the way a shipped package can. That has direct architectural consequences: systems need to handle bursty, unpredictable traffic without paying for idle capacity the rest of the time, which is exactly why we're serverless-first on AWS rather than running a fixed fleet sized for peak.

Underneath that, every order touches multiple systems that have to stay consistent: kitchen and vendor fulfillment status, inventory across partners, payment gateway settlement, and refunds, often in real time and often across more than one vendor for a single event. Getting that consistency right across SQL and NoSQL stores, without it becoming a source of support tickets and manual reconciliation, is a real architecture problem, not a CRUD problem.

The AI-agent layer is the next lever, and it's a business lever as much as a technical one. Every workflow we can hand to a well-orchestrated agent instead of a new hire is a workflow that scales without adding headcount, which is exactly how a company grows 3x a year without diluting equity to fund the team behind it. That's why agent orchestration across multiple LLMs, using LangGraph, sits in the "go deep" tier of this role rather than being a nice-to-have.

You'll likely find some of this framing right and some of it worth challenging once you're actually in the codebase. That's expected, and honestly preferred over someone who just nods along.

Why This Role Exists

You'll be the most senior technical person in the company, reporting directly to the founder. Not a manager brought in to run standups. An owner. You set the architecture, you write code yourself, and you make the team materially better. You also own where AI and automation take this company next, starting with our first in-house AI agent product (details shared in the interview), and expanding from there into how the company runs, department by department: HR, finance, marketing, design, development, all sitting on an engineering layer that you design.

If you've outgrown a role where you plan but don't build, or where good ideas die in a committee, this is built to be the opposite of that.

What You'll Own

• Architecture, end to end. Scalable, cost-efficient systems from day one, not "fix it later" engineering. You own the decisions and their long-term consequences.
• Hands-on building. You are still writing code and shipping. This isn't a seat where you review other people's work all day. You lead by building.
• The engineering team. Directly manage, mentor, and level up our 6 developers. Build the technical bar, the review culture, and the calibration that lets the team ship independently.
• The AI-agent roadmap. Own the architecture behind our first AI agent product, then the broader strategy for AI agents and automation across every function in the company, with engineering as the layer underneath all of it.
• Team scaling. Build the next layer of leads under you so execution quality scales without you being the bottleneck.
• Technical accountability. When something breaks, you fix it. You don't escalate and wait.

Our Stack, and the Depth We Expect

Not everything on this list needs the same level of mastery. Some of it you need to own at an architectural level. The rest you need to be strong enough to build yourself, direct the team on, or delegate to AI agents with confidence.

Go deep here. This is where the real architecture decisions live, and where the business impact is highest:

• AWS, serverless first. You should be genuinely well versed in AWS application development, not just "have used AWS." You should be able to design and guide serverless architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, and similar) as our default way of building, because our demand curve is spiky by nature and fixed infrastructure is money left on the table.
• TypeScript, our primary language across backend and frontend.
• Agent orchestration across multiple LLMs, using LangGraph. This is core to our AI roadmap and our path to scaling operations without scaling headcount. You own how it's architected, not just how it's used.

Working proficiency. Build it yourself, direct the team, or hand it to an AI agent and know if the output is right.

This Is You If

• You've built and shipped real production systems yourself, not just reviewed other people's architecture from a distance.
• You go deep wherever the problem is, and you're comfortable owning the exact stack described above, not just "full-stack" in the abstract.
• You've made engineers around you measurably better, whether or not you've held the title for it yet.
• You're already using AI coding tools and agents seriously, like Claude, Cursor, or similar tools, as part of how you build, not as something you tried once. We'll likely explore this together in the interview.
• You have a bias toward leverage over hours. You'd rather automate or systematize a problem than grind through it. But when something's live and needs to be done right, you see it through completely, with no half-finished work.
• You want to build something for years, not land somewhere comfortable. We'll know the difference from how you talk about your last three years.

This Might Not Be the Right Fit If

• You'd prefer a stable, well-defined role with clear boundaries and someone else making the calls. That's a fair thing to want, just not what this is.
• You'd rather receive direction than bring us architecture and AI strategy yourself.
• You haven't yet gotten hands-on with AI coding tools in your daily work.
• You're drawn more to the title than the work behind it.

If none of that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

Requirements

• 5 to 7 years of experience in software engineering, with real ownership of architecture-level decisions, not just feature delivery.
• Prior experience leading or mentoring engineers, formally or informally.
• Tier-1 or Tier-1+ engineering college strongly preferred (IIT, BITS, top NIT tier, or equivalent). We'll consider other institutions only with clearly commendable, verifiable work: real systems you can walk us through in depth, strong open-source contributions, or a track record that speaks for itself. Pedigree is a proxy for speed, not a checkbox. We test for the underlying ability regardless.
• Comfortable in an early-stage environment: undefined problems, few processes, and the expectation that you help define both.

Compensation

Competitive, with equity. We're formalizing a structured ESOP program alongside this hire. Specific numbers are discussed directly in later interview rounds.

If reading this got you a little excited about what you'd build here, we'd genuinely love to talk. If it didn't quite land, no hard feelings. We just want the right fit for both sides.

Job Title: Tech Architect - Java Spring Boot

Company Name: Chella Software Private Limited

Company Website

https://www.chelsoft.com/

Company details

THE PARTNER OF CHOICE FOR FINANCIAL MARKETS

Our deep domain experience, ultra-high-performance software solutions, and on-time project delivery make us the preferred partner for the financial markets.

Over the last two decades, Chella Software has built deep domain experience in the financial markets and a capability for developing ultra-high-performance software that can handle very high volumes of data with the lowest levels of latency.

We are now preferred partners for a host of Central Banks, Stock Exchanges, Clearing Corporations, Brokerages, and Institutional Investors across 12 countries.

We are a global provider of fintech solutions for central banks, exchanges, central counter parties, and financial market intermediaries. We meet the software needs of customers in India, the Middle East, Africa, Singapore, and the USA.

Central Banks:

• Our portfolio of solutions for central banks includes:
• Chella Switch, a national payment and settlement system designed for central banks in frontier markets, and
• Chella Horizen, a robust, reliable and full coverage investment management and accounting platform for reserve management.

Exchanges and CCPs:

We are at the forefront of providing customized solutions for exchanges, CCPs, depositories, and other financial market infrastructure. Our high-speed, low-latency, high-volume, massively scalable systems are spread across the core areas of trading, surveillance, risk management, clearing, settlement, and compliance.

​Our teams have deep expertise in:

• Developing and implementing bespoke solutions on a build-operate-maintain model.
• Re-architecting and re-engineering core applications to address performance and scalability challenges.
• Migrating legacy systems to the latest technologies without disrupting operations.
• Defining and building digital experiences and journeys that facilitatethe addition of new investors to the market.

Brokerages:

Our solutions for brokerages include:

• Chella Trader, a multi-asset, multi-exchange, multi-currency, omni-channel order management system, and
• Chella Clearvision is a modular broker back office that helps scale a broker’s business with incremental investments.

Institutional Investors:

We meet the investment management needs of institutional investors through Chella IMS, a full coverage post-trade investment management and IFRS-compliant accounting platform for pension funds, insurance firms, and family offices.

Location: Madurai - Tamil Nadu

Mode of Working: Work Form Office (Interview shall be face to face at Madurai)

Days of Working: 5 Days a week

Responsibilities

Job Description:

• Tech Architect with expertise in Java Spring Boot to design and implement robust, scalable, and high-performance backend systems. As a Tech Architect, you will be responsible for shaping the technical direction of complex software projects and providing architectural guidance to engineering teams. 
• This role requires deep technical knowledge, leadership skills, and the ability to collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of solutions that meet business and technical requirements. Experience in the Fintech domain is an added advantage.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Architectural Design & Strategy:

• Lead the architectural design and implementation of scalable, maintainable, and secure backend systems using Java, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture. 
• Define best practices for code quality, testing, security, and deployment processes. Drive the adoption of modern development methodologies (Agile, DevOps) and frameworks.

1. Technical Leadership:

• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to developers and engineers on coding standards, design patterns, and technologies.
• Ensure the architecture is aligned with business goals and technical constraints. Conduct code reviews and enforce best practices to maintain high-quality standards.

1. Collaboration:

• Work closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, and other stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define system requirements, integrate with third-party services, and ensure the overall system design is cohesive.

1. Problem Solving:

• Analyze and resolve complex technical challenges, such as performance bottlenecks, scalability issues, and system integrations.
• Evaluate and implement new technologies, tools, and frameworks to continually improve the development process.

1. Documentation & Reporting:

• Document architectural designs, technical specifications, and implementation guides.
• Provide regular updates on project progress, risks, and technical challenges to senior leadership.

1. Continuous Improvement:

• Stay up to date with emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices.
• Recommend improvements to system architecture, processes, and technologies to enhance the software development lifecycle.

Interview process: Virtual and Face-to-Face

Skills:

Experience: 9-12 Years

Location: Madurai

Job Type: Full-time

Education: B.E(Any stream)/ B.Tech / M.E / M.Tech. or similar

Skills: Java, Spring Boot, and microservices architecture. 

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge solutions for capital markets.
• This is a global role and, hence, will provide opportunities to work with organizations across the globe.
• Learn from experienced professionals and grow into a solution architect, product manager or sales role.
• Opportunity for rapid personal and professional growth.

ATGS official Email

anita at atgs.co.in

Sr. Technology Architect

Experience Range: 12–15+ years of IT experience, including 3–5+ years in leadership / people management roles.

Location: Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore

Qualification: B. Tech /B.E in computer science or equivalent

Minimum 10+ years of experience in Advanced Java

At least 2+ years of experience for the following areas:

• Lead and mentor full-stack development teams across multiple projects and workstreams.
• Define technical architecture, coding standards, and development best practices.
• Drive end-to-end delivery of enterprise applications using Agile methodologies.
• Oversee application design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Ensure adherence to security, performance, quality, and compliance standards.
• Collaborate with clients, product owners, architects, and cross-functional teams.
• Manage resource planning, risk mitigation, technical reviews, and stakeholder communication.
• Promote DevOps, CI/CD, and automation practices to improve delivery efficiency

Must Haves-

• Strong experience in Java Full Stack Development.
• Expertise in Spring Boot and Microservices Architecture.
• Proficiency in Python, Shell Scripting, and backend development.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL databases.
• Front-end expertise in React, Angular, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, and JSP.
• Experience with Kafka or similar event-driven messaging platforms.
• Strong understanding of API Design, REST Services, and Swagger/OpenAPI.
• Experience implementing security frameworks including OAuth 2.0.
• Hands-on expertise with Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
• Experience with code quality and security tools such as SonarQube and Fortify.
• Proven people management, stakeholder management, and delivery leadership experience.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Good to Haves-

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Experience with performance tuning, observability, and application monitoring tools.
• Telecom, OSS/BSS, or enterprise digital transformation domain experience.
• SAFe Agile, PMP, Scrum Master, or cloud certifications.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development tools and engineering productivity platforms.

Job Title

Solution Architect — Building an In‑House Payment Investigation Platform

Role purpose

Design and lead the delivery of an in‑house platform that supports end‑to‑end payment investigations (exceptions, recalls/returns, claims, enquiries, tracking, evidence and audit), integrating with payment processing, case management, messaging networks and customer channels. You’ll shape the target architecture, drive engineering alignment, and ensure the platform is secure, resilient, compliant and operable at scale.

Key responsibilities

Architecture & solution design

• Own end‑to‑end solution architecture across channels, APIs, workflow/case services, data, integration and observability.
• Define target state architecture and transition roadmap (strangler patterns, incremental migration from legacy/manual processes).
• Produce architecture artefacts: HLD/LLD inputs, C4 diagrams, data flow diagrams, sequence flows, NFRs, runbooks, ADRs.
• Design investigation workflows: triage, assignment, SLA timers, evidence capture, maker/checker controls, decisioning and closure.
• Establish canonical data models for investigation cases, events, payment references, counterparties and communications.

Integration & payments domain

• Architect integrations with payment rails and services (e.g., SWIFT, CHAPS/Faster Payments, SEPA, RTP equivalents depending on market), gateways and core banking/payment hubs.
• Design inbound/outbound messaging patterns for investigations: status requests, recalls, return handling, charge/claim processes, correspondence.
• Ensure idempotency, correlation (end‑to‑end trace IDs), retries, dead‑lettering and reconciliation for all investigation flows.
• Define event-driven patterns (pub/sub) and API contracts for upstream/downstream teams.

Non‑functional requirements (NFRs)

• Drive NFRs covering resilience (active-active where required), availability, latency, throughput, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
• Ensure strong security architecture: threat modelling, IAM, RBAC/ABAC, privileged access, secrets management, encryption in transit/at rest.
• Design for auditability and compliance: immutable logs, evidential storage, full case history, segregation of duties, retention policies.
• Embed observability: metrics, logs, traces, SLOs/SLIs, alerting, incident playbooks.

Delivery leadership

• Partner with Product Owners, Engineering Leads, Ops/SRE, InfoSec, Risk/Compliance, and business SMEs to align scope and priorities.
• Provide architectural governance: design reviews, standards, guardrails, and technical decision facilitation.
• Mentor squads on patterns (API design, eventing, data, resilience) and unblock delivery through pragmatic trade-offs.
• Support vendor/product evaluation when needed (BPM/workflow, rules engines, document/evidence stores).

Data & analytics

• Define data strategy for operational reporting, MI and regulatory reporting (case volumes, SLA breaches, root-cause categories).
• Architect data lineage and quality controls; define golden source for investigation outcomes.
• Support analytics for proactive issue detection (e.g., recurring breaks, correspondent issues, fraud signals where applicable).

Typical deliverables

• Target architecture + phased migration plan
• NFR catalogue and platform guardrails
• Integration patterns and API/event contract standards
• Event Driven Integration
• Operational readiness: monitoring, runbooks, DR plans, support model
• Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)

Required skills & experience

• Proven Solution Architect experience delivering mission-critical platforms in banking/financial services.
• Strong payments domain knowledge: investigation lifecycles, recalls/returns, exceptions handling, payment references and reconciliation.
• Integration expertise: APIs (REST/gRPC), messaging (Kafka/AMQP), event-driven architecture, workflow orchestration, distributed systems.
• Security by design: IAM, encryption, key management, secure SDLC, threat modelling.
• Resilience engineering: HA/DR designs, failure modes, back-pressure, idempotency, consistency models.
• Cloud and/or hybrid architecture experience (container platforms, service mesh optional), plus CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code awareness.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to translate business outcomes into implementable designs.

Desirable

• Experience with case management/BPM platforms and investigation tooling patterns.
• Familiarity with SWIFT message types relevant to investigations and tracking (depending on scope/market).
• Knowledge of operational risk controls, audit requirements, and regulatory expectations around payment handling.
• Experience modernising legacy payments operations using incremental migration.

Education / certifications (optional)

• Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience
• Architecture certifications (e.g., TOGAF) and/or cloud certifications (as applicable)