Principal Architect

Roles and Responsibilities :

The Principal Architect will be responsible for leading the architectural design and planning process for a variety of projects, ensuring that designs meet client specifications, regulatory requirements, and sustainability standards. This role involves good experience in algorithmic-heavy and computationally intensive systems.

Responsibilities :

• Improve and/or re-architect and/or write new algorithms for functional performance.
• Drive product innovation, technology roadmap and provide long-term vision to module teams.
• Author system-level high level design documents for cross-functional microservices.
• Work on simulations for breakthrough functional and technical performance.
• Innovate and dig out patentable solutions to product/technical requirements.
• Incorporate proper certification/compliance requirements into the product designs.
• Be a focal point of technology for product, engineering and teams that are critical to product.
• Participate in strategic planning for the product vision and roadmap.
• Be involved and pivotal in the company's transformation to a complete SaaS/PaaS product.
• Lead PoC for new technologies to continuously improve technical platform and developer experience.

Must Have:

• Experience in algorithmic-heavy and computationally intensive systems is a must.
• Proficiency in Java / C++
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems. Skilled in low latency queuing systems
• Experience with major architecture patterns.
• Well-versed with performance scalability
• Can write clean design documents.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor s or master s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field from a premier institute .
• Specialization in Computer-Science certifications are added bonus
• Over 12 experience in software industry, preferably 1+ years as a senior architect
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, C#.
• Experience with frameworks and libraries relevant to the technology stack.
• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve complex problems.

Good to Have:

• Proficiency in Erlang / Elixir / Scala. Strong mathematical background
• Exposure to analytics/machine learning
• Ability to lead and mentor people.
• Background in microservices-architecture
• Skilled at thorough REST API designs