Application Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Lead modernization initiatives, transforming legacy systems into cloud-native, scalable architectures
• Design and architect API-first ecosystems, including RESTful and event-driven APIs
• Build and optimize event-driven architectures using messaging and streaming platforms
• Define and implement API gateways for routing, security, throttling, and monitoring
• Design high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems with strong resiliency
• Ensure strong security architecture, including authentication, authorization, encryption, and zero-trust principles
• Drive deployments across cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and on-prem/hybrid environments
• Ensure responsive, intuitive user experiences compatible with desktop and mobile platforms
• Establish architecture standards, scalability patterns, and performance benchmark

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in enterprise application architecture and modernization
• Strong hands-on full-stack experience across modern frontend frameworks, backend services, APIs, and databases
• Proven experience building high-volume, transaction-heavy systems with strict latency requirements
• Deep expertise in microservices, event-driven architecture, API management, and gateway design
• Strong experience with microservices architectures - react/angular, spring boot/nodejs/fastapi, nosql dbs, postgres, REST/graphql, Kafka, kubernetes, Okta, elastic, grafana, prometheus and similar tech
• Experience with SRE techniques, such as chaos engineering, performance engineering, toil reduction, reliability engineering etc
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Solid experience in security architecture and compliance
• Familiarity with real-time streaming technologies
• Strong stakeholder communication and cross-functional leadership skills