Application Platform Architect

Job Description:

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Position Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Application / Platform Architect to lead the endtoend architecture design and evolution of our application and data this role you will define technical roadmaps lead modernization efforts and ensure our platforms are scalable secure resilient and aligned with business goals.

This role requires a seasoned technical expert with deep fullstack engineering experience strong systems thinking and handson architectural leadership across application development cloudnative technologies data platforms containers and DevOps automation.

You will partner closely with engineering teams product owners and senior technology leaders to set the strategic direction of the platform and guide developers in building highquality solutions.

This role is ideal for a strategic technical leader who can bridge handson engineering excellence with platformlevel architectural thinking. You will shape the future of our application ecosystem and ensure our platforms remain modern reliable and innovationready.

Key Responsibilities

Platform & Application Architecture

• Define the overarching architecture standards patterns and best practices for application and platform development.
• Architect endtoend solutions using React/Remix/NodeJS Python (FastAPI Flask) GraphQL and microservices.
• Design scalable containerized and cloudnative 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 multitenancy and scalability.

Data & Integration Architecture

• Architect solutions that manage structured/unstructured data leveraging PostgreSQL RDBMS concepts and distributed data tools (e.g. 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 cloudnative transformations.
• Establish principles for reusability modularity and standardized components.

DevOps Automation & Infrastructure

• Define and evolve platform CI/CD standards using Gitbased 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 crossfunctional teams to ensure solution alignment across the organization.

Required Qualifications:

Technical Expertise

• Deep handson expertise in fullstack 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 largescale distributed systems.
• Expertise in cloudnative patterns eventdriven systems and service mesh (plus).
• 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 nontechnical partners.
• Ability to influence stakeholders across product engineering infra and security.
• Proven track record of driving architectural transformation across the SDLC.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in application development and platform engineering.
• 5 years in an architect
• Experience with platformasaproduct mindset.
• Knowledge of cloud concepts (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Experience establishing enterprise architectural governance.

Job Description:
This job is responsible for defining an architectural vision and solution aligned to the enterprise architecture strategy technology and platform choices. Key responsibilities include describing the solution intent/associated operating environment evaluating system impacts determining the primary systems/sub-systems and their interfaces and assisting with end-to-end solution design. Job expectations include defining non-functional requirements/architectural runway to support new epics/features and ensuring solutions are fit for purpose by working with stakeholders and service providers.

Responsibilities:

• Consults with the business and operations to identify and understand challenges and opportunities to improve the use and effectiveness of technology find creative solutions through knowledge of the domain practical experiments and Proof of Concepts and aligns the solution intent and architectural vision to an evolving backlog of technology change
• Works with product management and other stakeholders to plan and prioritize technology focused backlog items for the architecture runway to enable business epics/features
• Performs design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements for a solution are sufficiently met (for example security performance maintainability scalability usability and reliability)
• Leads rapid shaping of a high level architecture with details filled in with emerging business requirements and ensures architecture is flexible modular and designed to adapt easily
• Educates team members on the technology practices standardization strategies and best practices to create innovative solutions
• Clarifies the architecture and assists with system design for the development teams to support implementation and provides solution options to resolve any architectural impediments
• Utilizes the defined best practices templates and documentation to create architectural designs and suggests improvements to best practices and templates

Skills:

• Analytical Thinking
• Architecture
• Result Orientation
• Solution Design
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• DevOps Practices
• Risk Management
• Agile Practices
• Automation
• Influence
• Solution Delivery Process
• Test Engineering

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