Lead Technical Architect

About the Role

Your Duties Would Include

• Define and govern the technical blueprint and target-state architecture for the Line of Business (LOB), ensuring alignment with the enterprise technology roadmap, cloud strategy, security standards, and modernization objectives.
• Provide strategic leadership in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevSecOps, Cloud Engineering, AI adoption, and Enterprise Architecture, establishing standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Principal Architects, and cross-functional technology leaders to drive standardization, reuse of platforms, common technology capabilities, and enterprise-wide engineering synergies.
• Lead the design and implementation of cloud-native, resilient, scalable, and secure architectures across Azure, GCP, hybrid-cloud, and on-premises environments, ensuring optimal performance, availability, and cost efficiency.
• Establish and govern SRE practices, including Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), error budgets, reliability engineering standards, resilience testing, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and production readiness governance.
• Drive adoption of DevSecOps practices by embedding security, quality, compliance, and operational controls throughout the software delivery lifecycle, including automated security scanning, vulnerability management, secrets management, and policy enforcement.
• Define and govern enterprise CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), GitOps, test automation, release automation, and deployment pipeline standards to improve delivery velocity, quality, repeatability, and operational stability.
• Lead the evaluation, selection, standardization, and governance of software engineering and DevOps platforms, including tools such as GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Sonatype Nexus/IQ, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, security scanning tools, and AI-powered engineering platforms
• Establish engineering quality gates and governance frameworks covering code quality, technical debt management, dependency management, software supply chain security, architectural compliance, and release readiness.
• Define and oversee AI governance frameworks, ensuring responsible adoption of AI technologies, AI-assisted development, secure usage of Generative AI tools, compliance, risk management, data protection, model governance, and engineering productivity measurement.
• Lead Proof of Concepts (PoCs), technical evaluations, and innovation initiatives involving emerging technologies, cloud services, AI capabilities, observability platforms, automation solutions, and modern engineering practices.
• Architect and govern comprehensive observability and monitoring solutions leveraging technologies such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and centralized logging platforms to provide end-to-end visibility across applications, platforms, APIs, integrations, and AI worklo

Qualification

• Bachelor’s Degree or Honors in Engineering / Computer Science / Mathematics / Sciences or Equivalent.
• 10+ years in architecture or system design roles with 3+years focused on Technology architecture, Cloud and DevSecOps.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices and cloud computing.
• Deep experience in performance, scalability, and reliability engineering.
• Ability to conduct research and adopt emerging technologies and software development tools.
• Proven ability to foster a collaborative team environment, encouraging innovation and continuous improvement.
• Skilled in adapting and integrating emerging technologies such as AI/ML, Generative AI into software Solutions.
• Proficient in using advanced software engineering tools and platforms, including containerization and CI/CD pipelines.
• Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and Software Quality Assurance processes.
• Expertise in area(s) of Architecture, Enterprise Integration patterns and software design and development.
• Expertise in modern software architecture, including microservices, serverless computing, and cloud-native applications.
• Hands-on experience in identifying the application bottlenecks using Dynatrace / ELK APM / AppDynamics tool and explain the bottlenecks to the application team for the resolution.

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