Senior Application Platform Architect
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Job description
- Define the overarching architecture, standards, patterns, and best practices for application and platform development.
- Architect end to end solutions using React/Remix/NodeJS, Python (FastAPI, Flask), GraphQL, and microservices.
- Design scalable containerized and cloud native solutions using Docker/Podman and Kubernetes.
- Establish architectural blueprints, reference architectures, and reusable frameworks.
Technical Leadership
- Guide engineering teams through complex solution design decisions, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture.
- Conduct deep architecture reviews of applications, microservices, APIs, and data flows.
- Provide mentorship to developers, senior engineers, and application teams.
Platform Engineering
- Architect, optimize, and evolve the internal application platform to support UI frameworks, API gateways, microservice orchestration, observability and logging frameworks, CI/CD pipelines.
- Ensure the platform supports high performance, multi-tenancy, and scalability.
Data & Integration Architecture
- Architect solutions that manage structured/unstructured data leveraging PostgreSQL, RDBMS concepts, and distributed data tools (eg, Hadoop).
- Define API, integration, and GraphQL schemas ensuring consistency and maintainability.
- Work closely with data engineering teams to ensure metadata, lineage, and quality are integrated into platform services.
Application Modernization
- Analyze existing applications and platforms to identify modernization opportunities.
- Lead refactoring, migration to microservices, and cloud native transformations.
- Establish principles for reusability, modularity, and standardized components.
DevOps, Automation & Infrastructure
- Define and evolve platform CI/CD standards using Git based workflows.
- Collaborate with infra teams on automation using Ansible, Shell scripting, and container orchestration patterns.
- Ensure platform security, reliability, performance tuning, and governance compliance.
Collaboration & Strategy
- Partner with product owners to translate business requirements into technology roadmaps.
- Provide architectural input on major initiatives, platform investments, and technical debt reduction.
- Engage with cross functional teams to ensure solution alignment across the organization.
Requirements
Required Skills & Experience Technical Expertise
- Deep hands-on expertise in full stack engineering.
- Frontend: React, Remix, NodeJS.
- Backend: Python, FastAPI, Flask.
- APIs: GraphQL, REST.
- Strong experience designing and delivering microservices architectures.
- Mastery in containers and orchestration: Docker, Podman, Kubernetes.
- Solid understanding of Linux environments.
- Strong data and DB architecture experience: PostgreSQL, RDBMS fundamentals.
- Distributed data concepts (Hadoop).
Architectural Skills
- Experience designing large-scale distributed systems.
- Expertise in cloud native patterns, event-driven systems, and service mesh.
- Ability to create architecture diagrams, roadmaps, and technical documentation.
- Strong knowledge of engineering best practices: testing strategies, coding standards, security controls.
Leadership & Soft Skills
- Ability to lead engineering teams through architectural and design decisions.
- Strong communication skills to articulate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical partners.
- Ability to influence stakeholders across product, engineering, infra, and security.
- Proven track record of driving architectural transformation across the SDLC.
Basic Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in application development and platform engineering.
- 5+ years in an architect or principal engineer role.
- Experience with platform-as-a-product mindset.
- Knowledge of cloud concepts (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Experience establishing enterprise architectural governance.
- High School Diploma or GED.
Preferred Qualifications
- Associate or bachelor's degree.
Benefits & conditions
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