Application Architect

Summary

• Experience working in startups is a plus

Key Responsibilities

• Provide infrastructure & application architecture solutions for applications that are delivered in SAAS & enterprise delivery model, in both new application development and legacy application modernization scenarios, as a cloud-native / vendor-agnostic implementation, to fulfil project requirements
• Design solutions that follow different industry guidelines (PCI / HIPAA etc) and privacy guidelines (EU GDPR / California's CPA / Australia's Privacy Act etc...)
• Define overall application architecture, that includes system components, data flow, communication protocols, and technology stack to meet project needs
• Gather functional and non-functional requirements of the application from different internal & external stakeholders
• Choose an architecture pattern along with major design patterns that facilitates guidance to do reusable & maintainable code creation so that, the application do scale with better performance to serve target audience needs when deployed on a scalable architecture
• Recommend tech stack to meet project requirements while also considering market trends & customer preferences (be it team availability or other)
• Guide development teams when developing the application with technical expertise and with resolutions to complex design issues
• Identify potential bottlenecks and provide solutions to optimize application performance
• Document application architecture in detail with an application component diagram & infrastructure architecture diagram along with corresponding technical specifications (that also covers application performance monitoring (APM) & observability needs).
• Collaborate with different other teams (that includes UI/UX designers, database administrators, QA engineers, devops engineers etc...) to ensure seamless integration and application deployment

Required Skillsets

• Proficiency in at least one of the server-side programming languages (that includes Nodejs, Python, Java, PHP, C#, etc...) using popular frameworks in the same
• Have a clear understanding on single page application development (Reactjs/Angular/Vuejs/Blazor etc...), mobile application development (native/hybrid)
• Deep understanding of different software architecture patterns and design patterns
• Expertise in database modeling with a clear understanding about different database technologies in SQL & NOSQL and design principles about the same
• Knowledge of object relational mapper (ORM) usage when doing database queries
• Understand stored procedures in SQL databases
• Understand mapreduce concepts in NOSQL Databases
• Understand server-side in-memory cache concepts
• Knowledge of IAAS/PAAS/SAAS solutions from different cloud service providers like AWS, Azure, GCP etc...
• Experience developing applications securely as per OWASP standards
• Experience with GIT and have knowledge of CI/CD pipeline solutions
• Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audience
• Strong analytical skills to identify and troubleshoot technical challenges
• Ability to mentor and guide development teams