Senior Software Architect

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Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world like AI and IoT. If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world.

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Job Posting Title: Senior Software Architect

Job Description

Applied Materials is seeking a seasoned Technical Architect to lead endtoend solution architecture for modern cloudnative web applications. Youll combine deep frontend and backend expertise with strong cloud microservices and containerization skills to design scalable secure and maintainable systems that solve complex business problems.

Key Responsibilities:

Own architecture for new and existing web platforms: conceptual logical and physical designs; reference architectures; technology roadmaps.

Design cloudnative solutions (AWS/Azure/GCP): multiregion patterns resiliency security networking storage and cost awareness.

Define service boundaries and microservices topology; establish contracts data models integration patterns (REST/gRPC/events) and API governance.

Guide UI architecture for modern SPAs (React/Angular/Vue): state management performance accessibility modularity and designsystem adoption.

Lead backend architecture (.NET Core/Java/Node/Python): domain modeling clean architecture asynchronous processing messaging and persistence strategies.

Containerize & orchestrate services (Docker Kubernetes) with robust deployment topologies scaling and runtime configurations.

Set engineering standards: design patterns SOLID principles clean code secure coding (OWASP) performance and reliability best practices.

Establish observability: logging metrics tracing SLOs/SLIs error budgets; drive APM alerting and dashboards across services.

Champion DevSecOps: CI/CD pipelines IaC (Terraform/ARM) automated testing supplychain security and release strategies (blue/green/canary).

Mentor and unblock teams: conduct design reviews code walkthroughs spike/prototype critical paths and coach leads/engineers.

Collaborate crossfunctionally with Product UX QA Security and Platform/Infra to balance scope risk and timetovalue.

Document rigorously: ADRs sequence diagrams runtime views threat models and operational playbooks; keep architecture artifacts current.

Measure outcomes: drive NFRs (performance scalability reliability security cost) track KPIs and iterate architectures based on data.

Key Skills and Experience:

1215 years in web application development with handson experience across UI and backend; at least 46 years in architecture/techlead roles.

Cloud proficiency (AWS/Azure/GCP): compute storage networking IAM managed databases serverless containers; cost/performance tradeoffs.

Strong command of design patterns and SOLID principles; demonstrable application in real systems.

Proven experience with microservices architecture (service decomposition data consistency saga/Outbox idempotency API versioning).

Containerization & orchestration: Docker Kubernetes Helm/Operators; production deployments and runtime operations.

Frontend expertise: React or Angular (performance tuning bundling SSR/SSG as applicable) accessibility secure clientside practices.

Backend expertise: one or more of .NET Core Java/Spring or Python/FastAPI/Django; API design async processing queuing/eventing.

Data & integration: SQL/NoSQL caching messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ/Service Bus) API gateways service mesh authentication/authorization (OAuth2/OIDC).

Observability & reliability: instrumentation tracing (OpenTelemetry) APM tools resilience patterns (circuit breakers retries backoff).

Security mindset: threat modeling OWASP Top 10 secrets management least privilege secure pipelines compliance awareness.

Excellent communication stakeholder management and the ability to simplify complexity.

Other Functional Knowledge:

• Exposure to enterprise application development integration and API gateways.
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum practices backlog management and sprint ceremonies.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and cloud platforms (preferably Azure) is a plus.
• Knowledge of message brokers/queues (e.g. RabbitMQ Azure Service Bus) and eventdriven patterns is advantageous.
• Experience with eventdriven and CQRS architectures; data streaming and realtime analytics.
• Knowledge of domaindriven design (DDD); strategic/tactical patterns.
• Experience with serverless (Lambda/Functions) edge delivery (CDN) and zerotrust architectures.
• Exposure to ML/analytics integration patterns and feature flags/progressive delivery.
• Prior work in highthroughput or missioncritical environments.

Qualifications:

• Education and Experience
  • BE/BTech/BS or ME/MTech/MS degree in engineering field
• Proven ability to deliver highquality software in collaborative fastpaced environments.
• Strong problemsolving aptitude and a productoriented mindset.
• Clear concise verbal and written communication skills.

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Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color national origin citizenship ancestry religion creed sex sexual orientation gender identity age disability veteran or military status or any other basis prohibited by law.