Technical Architect

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Solution Architect / Technical Architect with 10+ years of software engineering experience and strong hands-on expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, Next.js, Angular, cloud technologies, and modern application architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, secure, highly available web and backend solutions.
• Define solution architecture, application architecture, integration patterns, and technology strategies.
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to development teams.
• Lead architecture discussions, design reviews, code reviews, and technical decision-making.
• Create and maintain HLD, LLD, architecture diagrams, sequence diagrams, API specifications, and technical documentation.
• Design and implement backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Build modern and scalable frontend applications using Next.js/React and Angular.
• Design RESTful APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
• Evaluate existing applications and recommend modernization, re-platforming, and refactoring strategies.
• Ensure applications meet requirements for performance, scalability, availability, security, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with product managers, business stakeholders, architects, DevOps, QA, and engineering teams.
• Participate in technical discovery, requirement analysis, estimation, and solutioning activities.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and architectural trade-offs.
• Establish engineering best practices, coding standards, design patterns, and development methodologies.
• Mentor engineers and technical leads and contribute to building strong technical capabilities within the team.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and recommend appropriate solutions based on business requirements.

Requirements

Required Technical Skills

Backend Development

• 8+ years of hands-on experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
• Strong experience designing and developing REST APIs and microservices.
• Experience with API security, authentication, authorization, OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, and related security practices.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous programming, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems.
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or similar.
• Experience with Redis or other caching technologies is preferred.

Frontend Development

• Strong hands-on experience with Next.js / React.
• Strong experience with Angular and TypeScript.
• Good understanding of frontend architecture, component design, state management, routing, SSR/SSG, and performance optimization.
• Experience building responsive and scalable enterprise web applications.

Architecture \& Design

• Strong understanding of Solution Architecture and Application Architecture.
• Experience designing microservices and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture, messaging, API gateways, service discovery, and integration patterns.
• Strong knowledge of SOLID principles, design patterns, clean architecture, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
• Ability to evaluate technology choices and communicate architectural trade-offs effectively.
• Experience creating HLD, LLD, architecture diagrams, sequence diagrams, and technical specifications.

Cloud \& Devops

• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform
• AWS
• Microsoft Azure
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Understanding of cloud services including compute, storage, databases, networking, API management, containers, and serverless technologies.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is preferred.
• Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Experience with deployment, infrastructure, monitoring, logging, and application observability.

Security \& Performance

• Strong understanding of application security principles.
• Experience implementing secure APIs and web applications.
• Knowledge of OWASP practices and common web application vulnerabilities.
• Experience with performance tuning, scalability, load balancing, caching, and profiling.

Solutioning \& Technical Leadership

• Lead technical discussions with customers and business stakeholders.
• Translate business requirements into scalable and maintainable technical solutions.
• Participate in RFP/RFI, proposal, and solutioning activities where required.
• Prepare technical approaches, estimates, architecture proposals, and solution documents.
• Conduct technical presentations and architecture walkthroughs.
• Work across multiple teams to ensure architectural consistency.
• Act as a technical point of contact for complex application and integration issues.
• Mentor architects, technical leads, and developers on architecture and engineering practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of software development experience with significant experience in architecture and technical leadership.
• Experience working on large-scale enterprise applications.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Experience working with distributed or global engineering teams.
• Strong communication, presentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to balance business requirements, technical feasibility, cost, scalability, and time-to-market.

Nice to have

• AWS, Azure, or GCP certifications.
• Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other messaging platforms.
• Experience with GraphQL.
• Experience with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
• Experience with serverless architectures.
• Experience integrating AI/LLM capabilities into enterprise applications.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with architecture governance and enterprise architecture frameworks.

Pay

₹100,000.00 - ₹200,000.00 per month

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