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Samagra X - Tech Architect
As Samagra expands into Digital Public Goods (DPGs), we’re looking for a Tech Architect to help us shape how open-source products and platforms can transform governments' worldwide function. As Samagra, we pride ourselves on being thoughtful and intentional about the impact that can be created through well-built products and platforms.
In this role, you’ll work with a mission-driven team on some of the world’s most complex governance problems, where technology will play a pivotal role. You’ll design the architecture of platforms, answering
questions like-
- How to deliver quality advisory services to 100mn farmers nationwide?
- How can standardised assessment/practice tools be enabled to ensure FLN1 in children?
- How to build the capacity of paramedical staff in the country?
- How can govt administrators in any domain monitor the progress of flagship programs?
- How to build an open commerce network to connect farmers to the best service providers?
Working at Samagra, you’ll be challenged and rewarded with impact at scale. We value excellence, collaboration, empathy, and high ownership mindset. The most successful candidates will exhibit work that reflects these values. We want you to enable every team member to do their best work. We expect you to have a solid technical background, excellent communication skills, a flare for open-source products/platforms and a commitment to making everyone feel included.
Your Impact
In this role, you’ll have tremendous opportunities to learn, collaborate and impact millions of citizens in India and abroad by transforming how governments function. As a Tech Architect, you will:
- Take Ownership of technical vision for a given DPG - Define standards, drive technical architecture, strategy, and roadmap with the DPG working groups
- Collaborate with the DPG development partner to translate technical vision into a deliverable roadmap and product design. Pitch in with code, code reviews, architectural reviews and technical mentoring
- Work closely with the DPG development partner at various milestones of the product delivery to ensure a high-quality product is delivered and the product meets all the requirements, including debuggability,
- supportability, availability, scalability, cost-efficiency and performance.
- Continuously develop and improve the interface between technology and the DPG community. Ensure
- that overall technical practices are scalable, constantly evaluating tech stacks to cater to evolving business needs.
- Participate in building ecosystems around DPG with the community - build platforms, plugins & apps.
- Ensure all internal processes & external services comply with security, privacy policies and regulations.
- Stay on top of digital trends, principles and paradigms and be able to relate how these trends will affect the DPG community.
- Engage with internal and external collaborators, and maintain relationships/partnerships with internal team members and adopters to develop strategies, goals and objectives consistent with the DPG
- strategy.
Skills required
- Solid technical skills - Strong experience in having architected, built, operated and scaled distributed, large-scale, fault-tolerant systems; Worked on defining problem statements at all levels - RFCs to good first issues. Experience building and cultivating strong engineering practices; Experience with enterprise software development built and delivered on both on-premise and Cloud is preferred; Ability to diagnose technical problems, debug code, and automate tasks; Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Leadership - Mix of intelligence, initiative, integrity, domain knowledge, verbal agility, and tactful stakeholder engagement, which allows you to rapidly earn the trust of astute teams and individuals across the company/community. You have a strong bias for action and being resourceful
- Collaboration and communication - with the geo-distributed teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. Also, able to communicate across functional teams, keeping various engineering, product and business stakeholders informed.
- Planning & execution - Able to own and deliver large projects end to end, keeping track of timelines; keep track of (and context switch between) different threads and ensure that details don’t slip through the cracks
Qualifications
- B. tech/BE(CS/IT) & from Tier 1 or Tier 2 institutes of India/Abroad or equivalent; M. tech/Ph.D. preferred
- 8+ years of software development experience with 4+ years contributing to software architecture
- Experience in architecting, designing, developing, testing, and deploying large-scale, distributed systems.
- Experience in contributing and actively participating in multiple open source projects.
- Strong leadership skills and experience in working with a developer ecosystem.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Automate the development and test automation processes through CI/CD pipeline (Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker containers).
- Experience in one of the following programming languages: Python/Javascript/Typescript/Java.
- Experience with RDBMS (Postgres, MariaDB) and any other large scale distributed database systems.
- Have expertise in one or more areas like building and scaling web apps, Machine Learning, UI Engineering, Information Visualization, etc.
About Samagra
Samagra is a mission-driven governance consulting firm. We co-work with the bureaucratic leadership across states and the Centre on long-term systemic transformation programmes cutting across domains. Since 2012, when Samagra was founded, we have worked with the Government of India and 7 state governments on 15+ large-scale systemic transformation projects in sectors like education, agriculture, skills, employment, and public service delivery. Over the last 5 years, we have also built strong GovTech and DataGov capabilities, now housed under the SamagraX umbrella. Our mission is to improve the quality of life of citizens through better governance. And this mission is
what fuels every goal we chase. Want to know more about Samagra?
Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPcPdI2SHwU&t=4s&ab_channel=Samagra-TransformingGovernance" target="_blank">this masterclass by our Founder and CEO, Gaurav Goel
Our Tech Leadership
Rahul Kulkarni - Chief Technologist
Nitin Kashyap - Senior Vice President - Product
Utkarsh Vijay - Vice President
Sukhpreet Sekhon - Vice President
Suresh Unnikrishnan - Vice President - Engineering
Product Examples
https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-03-31-leveraging-artificial-intelligence-to-deliver-advisory-to-farmers/" target="_blank">Ama KrushAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CEo_R8XIhI" target="_blank">Nipun Lakshya App
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR8m4VS8kqA" target="_blank">e-SAMWAD
https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-01-16-leveraging-data-science-algorithms-to-improve-data-quality-in-government/" target="_blank">Krushak Odisha database - DataScience
https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-01-16-leveraging-data-science-algorithms-to-improve-data-quality-in-government/" target="_blank">Sunbird cQube
https://saral.sunbird.org/" target="_blank">Sunbird SARAL

About Samagra | Transforming Governance
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We work with state governments across domains.
Samagra is a mission-driven governance consulting firm. Our mission is to improve the quality of life of citizens through better governance.
SamagraX is focused on building an opensource government operation system to enable scalable innovation through reusable gov-tech products.
Samagra is focused on working with the political and bureaucratic leadership across states and domains on complex governance challenges to create sustainable impact at scale. We combine a top-down management consulting approach with a bottom-up understanding of the governance ecosystem and leverage our technology and data expertise to deliver on our mandates.
Candid answers by the company
We are a mission-driven governance consulting firm. We firmly believe in governance being the primary lever of change to create large-scale impact in the country. We work with the senior political and bureaucratic leadership of states to solve governance problems at scale. From the time we are approached with a problem statement, we co-work with the government to diagnose the challenge, design a transformation roadmap and implement the same. The solutions we develop are rooted in the realities of governance in India. All our engagements are typically two-three year-long systemic transformation programs.
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