Lead software architecture across projects: define architectural strategy, create UML and technical specs, ensure scalability, security, and performance, guide development teams, implement DDD and microservice patterns, and drive adoption of emerging technologies while supporting CI/CD and DevOps practices.
This person will be responsible for software systems, ensuring they align with business objectives, performance, security standards, and scalability needs. They will review and implement changes using new technologies and methodologies to enhance existing systems. They will provide guidance to development teams ensuring projects align with architectural standards and offer technical leadership across multiple projects, systems, and clients.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to scope definition, requirements analysis, and design to align new features with the system context
- Present architecture diagrams (UML) and technical specifications, refining them based on feedback
- Define or select an application framework to optimize reuse within the organization
- Ensure a robust design within budget constraints and deadlines
- Work with IT to ensure the system environment meets or exceeds expected requirements
- Provide technical expertise in diagnosing and resolving system issues, including solution alternatives
- Develop and enforce quality, performance, and security standards across projects and teams
- Advise clients on appropriate technologies that balance project requirements and business constraints
- Define and own the overall architectural strategy and technical roadmap
- Make high-level design decisions to align with business and technical goals
- Ensure system scalability, performance optimization, and long-term sustainability
- Assist development teams in prototyping proof-of-concept solutions
- Utilize your coding skills to analyze and integrate emerging technologies
- Act as a technical expert on emerging technologies, and present to development teams and clients
- Drive the adoption of emerging technologies that align with business needs
- Lead technical discussions and mentor teams to enhance best practices
- Contribute to technical documentation and deployment guides
Technical Qualifications:
- Hands-on experience in Domain-Driven Design (DDD), including designing bounded contexts, aggregates, entities, value objects, repositories, domain services, and implementing tactical and strategic DDD patterns in microservice architectures
- Experience in technical architecture including technology evaluation and design decisions
- Experience in distributed, scalable systems and service-oriented architecture
- Experience in automating system and application builds
- Experience in server-side development (Java, .NET, Node.js, PHP, Python)
- Experience in RESTful API services and web services implementation
- Experience in scripting technologies (Angular, TypeScript, React.js)
- Experience in unit testing tools and best practices
- Experience in integration tests and best practices
- Experience in MS SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle relational databases
- Experience working closely with DevOps and infrastructure teams to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for build, test, and deployment automation
- Good understanding of Security best practices including OAuth 2.0, JWT, Spring Security and OWASP Guidelines
- Knowledge of database design, SQL, data security, and data backup
- Knowledge of architecture design patterns, UML, and data modeling
- Knowledge of object-oriented principles (Interfaces, Classes, Inheritance, Encapsulation, Polymorphism)
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and event-driven architectures
- Knowledge of load & performance testing tools and best practices
- Basic knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Knowledge of banking/finance domains is a plus
- Good to have an AI-first mindset to utilize AI tools in all phases of SDLC
Personal Skills:
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
- Strong analytical thinking with the ability to make holistic decisions
- Attention to detail and a future-focused mindset
- Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Ability to switch between macro and micro perspectives effectively
- Ability to foresee, plan, and mitigate risks
- Ability to balances technical and business needs to offer the best compromise
Education & Work Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, or a related field
- 8+ years of experience in application design and development
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