Software Architect

Overview

Own the end-to-end technical integrity and evolution of Cortex, a software product for semiconductor data workflows, across its frontend, services, infrastructure and integrations.

What you'll do

• Learn, document and communicate the current Cortex architecture, including its key components, dependencies, integrations and constraints.
• Own and guide cross-stack architectural decisions across frontend applications, backend services, APIs, data, infrastructure and deployment.
• Define and maintain architecture principles, standards and patterns that support Cortex's product and engineering needs.
• Shape architecture for microservices, distributed systems, REST APIs, containerized applications, and cloud and on-premise environments.
• Guide frontend architecture, including microfrontend and plugin approaches, Web Components, and integration across Core and Contributor applications.
• Ensure architecture addresses scalability, performance, resilience, maintainability, observability and cybersecurity.
• Guide authentication and authorization, data architecture, and secure development practices, including SBOM, SCA and SAST considerations.
• Shape CI/CD architecture and deployment practices in collaboration with development and DevOps teams.
• Review major technical changes and designs, identify cross-system risks, and help teams make informed trade-offs.
• Coordinate with Athena, SDP and DAP architects and technical leads on integration points and shared architectural concerns.
• Support the evolution of Central Cortex and the Contributor plugin ecosystem.
• Identify and prioritize technical debt with engineering teams, and help develop a practical strategy for addressing it.
• Encourage cohesive decisions across frontend, backend and DevOps, and resolve architectural gaps between teams.
• Communicate architectural choices and trade-offs clearly to engineers, product stakeholders and management.
• Influence without direct authority, challenge designs constructively, and mentor engineers and technical leads.
• Regularly revisit architectural assumptions as Cortex, its user needs and its technical environment evolve.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience designing and evolving software architectures for complex products or platforms.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices and REST/API architecture.
• Experience architecting containerized applications and working with Kubernetes.
• Experience with cloud and on-premise architecture.
• Strong knowledge of authentication, authorization, data architecture, scalability and performance.
• Understanding of both modern frontend architecture and backend/service architecture.
• Experience with microfrontend or plugin architectures and Web Components.
• Experience designing observability and CI/CD capabilities as part of a broader system architecture.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity practices and tooling, including SBOM, SCA and SAST.
• Strong system-thinking skills and the ability to analyze dependencies, risks and trade-offs across a product.
• Experience documenting architecture, principles, decisions and technical direction.
• Strong technical communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain architecture to engineers and management.
• Ability to influence across teams, challenge designs constructively, and collaborate in a global or matrix organization.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting the evolution of an established product architecture while enabling new capabilities and integrations.
• Experience with scientific software, imaging, data-intensive applications or semiconductor workflows.
• Familiarity with enterprise platforms and integrations such as Athena, SDP or DAP.
• Experience guiding technical debt strategy and mentoring engineers or technical leads.
• Experience working in a distributed, cross-functional Agile organization.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.
• Work schedule: Standard, Monday to Friday.
• Division: Analytical Instruments Group, Materials and Structural Analysis Division; Organization: Semiconductor R&D.
• Works with a distributed team including colleagues in Bordeaux, Hillsboro, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.
• Reports to the Functional Group Lead.