Sr. Architect - Java Microservices

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.

• Experience in Core Java, CXF, Spring. 
• Experience in spring boot, microservices. 
• Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale n-tier applications for the financial domain. Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns. 
• Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client-facing applications. 
• Good development experience with RDBMS, preferably Sybase database 
• Good knowledge of multi-threading and high volume server side development 
• Experience in sales and trading platforms in investment banking/capital markets 
• Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux 
• Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Java 
• Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills. 
• Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts. 

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.

What you'll do

Own a client end to end. Learn their business, find what to automate or rebuild, and lead the work that ships it.

Turn business problems into technical solutions sit in the call, understand the real problem, design the fix, and decide how it gets built.

Stay hands-on. You'll still write code, build integrations, and work with APIs every day.

Build on whatever the client runs Zoho, Salesforce, Azure, similar platforms, and custom apps where needed.

Run delivery: scope it, sequence it, ship it, support it. The timeline is yours.

Review code and designs. Mentor the developers on your projects and unblock them fast.

Be the escalation point when something breaks or an integration misbehaves.

Own client communication on the technical side status, tradeoffs, bad news, early.

Keep the bar high: clear docs, clear updates, clear commit history.

What we're looking for

4–7 years shipping software, with real depth in REST APIs and system integrations.

Experience leading projects or small teams — the person others check with before they build.

Strong with business platforms (Zoho, Salesforce, or similar). Much of the leverage lives there, not in custom code.

You can sit with a non-technical client, understand the problem, and come back with a working solution.

Still enjoy building. This is technical leadership, not coordination.

Self-driven. You'll often be the senior-most engineer on the account.

Why you'll love this role

Full ownership from first call to delivery — you run projects, not a ticket queue.

Direct access to clients and leadership. Your decisions ship the same week.

Constant variety: new systems, new problems, new builds.

A step into technical leadership without giving up the hands-on work.

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.