Platform Architect

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the architectural blueprint for a multi-faceted infrastructure console, ensuring scalability, security, observability, and resilience.
• Define and enforce standards for API design, data modeling, persona-based UX, and end-to-end testing automation.
• Partner with product, UX, security, SRE, and engineering teams to translate macro requirements into coherent and deliverable architecture frameworks.
• Establish architectural best practices for distributed systems, governance, and API management, including versioning, contracts, error taxonomy, pagination, and backward compatibility.
• Lead technical decision-making, influence stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers.
• Set standards for observability, including metrics, logs, traces, and SLO/SLA-aligned monitoring.
• Oversee the design and implementation of data ingestion, identity/access management, and automation orchestration strategies.
• Promote clean, maintainable, and industry-compliant code and documentation practices.
• Drive continuous improvement in testing strategies, including unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing methodologies.

Requirements

• Experience in software engineering, platform engineering, or architecture roles.
• 2+ years leading architecture for distributed, enterprise-scale platforms and complex systems.
• Proven experience designing full-stack architectures including front end, backend BFF/API layers, and data/integration components.
• Deep knowledge of API architecture, governance, versioning, contracts, error handling, pagination, filtering, and backward compatibility.
• Strong expertise in authentication and authorization mechanisms such as RBAC, ABAC, SSO, OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, and mTLS.
• Extensive experience establishing observability standards, monitoring, and SLO/SLA management.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical decisions, influence cross-team stakeholders, and mentor engineers.
• Proficiency with Git-based workflows, CI/CD practices, and automation tools.
• Experience with enterprise orchestration platforms like BMC TrueSight Orchestrator or equivalent.
• Strong background in database schema design, performance tuning, and optimization.
• Working knowledge of ITSM/ITIL processes and workflows.
• Familiarity with RESTful API design, error handling, and versioning strategies.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks, especially TOSCA for functional and regression testing.

Preferred, But Not Required

• Additional expertise in database optimization and performance enhancement.
• Familiarity with ITSM, ITIL, and related tools.
• Commitment to clean, maintainable, and well-documented code practices.