Architect

Overview

Define and own the end-to-end architecture for web applications, APIs, and data platforms within MassMutual India's technology organization.

What you'll do

• Define and own the end-to-end architecture for web applications, APIs, and data platforms, covering scalability, performance, resiliency, security, and cost.
• Translate business and product requirements into architecture blueprints, reference architectures, and technical roadmaps.
• Establish and govern engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices, and document key decisions through architecture decision records (ADRs).
• Lead design and architecture reviews, and ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, security, and compliance requirements.
• Design database schemas and data models, and define data storage, aggregation, and integration strategies across SQL and NoSQL technologies.
• Architect RESTful API strategy, including design standards, versioning, authentication and authorization, and lifecycle management.
• Design cloud-native solutions on AWS, including deployment topology, security set-up, and infrastructure approach.
• Define CI/CD, testing, observability (logging and monitoring), and release strategies to enable reliable, repeatable delivery.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, frameworks, and tools; recommend adoption through proofs of concept and technical due diligence.
• Guide and mentor engineers through hands-on technical leadership, code and design reviews, and prototyping of critical components.
• Collaborate across cross-functional teams (product, engineering, security, infrastructure, data) to resolve technical dependencies and drive alignment.
• Identify and manage technical debt, risks, and trade-offs, communicating them clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Promote and contribute to open source libraries and internal reusable components where appropriate.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent quantitative field, or relevant experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in an architect or technical lead role.
• Proven experience designing distributed, scalable systems using patterns such as microservices, event-driven architecture, and API-first design.
• Strong knowledge of non-functional requirements (performance, availability, security, scalability, maintainability) and how to design for them.
• Strong object-oriented and functional design skills.
• Ability to produce clear architecture artifacts (system context, component, sequence, and deployment diagrams).
• 7+ years of experience with backend languages such as Python, NodeJS, or Java.
• Deep experience designing and building REST APIs (Java or NodeJS preferred), as well as consuming and integrating them.
• 5+ years of experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases, such as MySQL, AWS Aurora, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Redshift, and AWS DynamoDB.
• Strong data modeling and database schema design skills.
• Experience designing ETL/ELT pipelines and data integration patterns.
• Strong experience architecting and deploying web applications on AWS.
• 5+ years of experience with at least one of Spark, Docker, AWS, or Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum).
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and observability tooling.
• Experience with Git version control and GitHub (3-5+ years).
• Working knowledge of modern frontend frameworks such as ReactJS or Angular, sufficient to guide full-stack design decisions.
• Excellent analytical, data-driven decision making, with strategic and conceptual thinking, planning, and execution skills.
• Proven success leading in complex, matrixed, cross-functional projects, including influencing without direct authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presenting to senior technical and business stakeholders.
• Proficiency with the Atlassian stack (Jira, Confluence) and collaboration tools such as Slack.

Nice to have

• Master's or PhD preferred.
• AWS Solutions Architect certification (Associate or Professional) or equivalent.
• Experience in financial services or insurance, or other regulated industries.
• Experience with security architecture, including identity and access management, encryption, and compliance frameworks.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.