Solution Architect

Overview

Hands-on Solutions Architect to design, build, and operate complex, regulated, global solutions across payroll, tax, and immigration domains, owning end-to-end architecture for a product or suite and contributing directly to implementation.

What you'll do

• Produce architecture designs and implement key components, including reference implementations, platform libraries, integration adapters, and critical workflows.
• Design and build event-driven services (messaging, async workflows, idempotency, retries, backpressure, eventual consistency), including well-defined event contracts and versioning strategies.
• Build using Azure PaaS services and patterns (identity, networking, storage, messaging, API management, monitoring), with practical tradeoffs across cost, scalability, resilience, and latency.
• Design and integrate AI capabilities using Azure OpenAI APIs (GPT, embeddings, assistants) to enable intelligent features and agent-driven automation within business process flows.
• Architect and ship large Next.js/React applications (routing, state strategy, data-fetching patterns, performance, accessibility, modularization, micro-frontend considerations where relevant).
• Define secure integration patterns (REST and event-based), build connectors/adapters, and establish operational runbooks for partner/client integrations.
• Implement secure SDLC practices, including threat modeling, secrets management, encryption, least-privilege access, audit logging, and secure defaults aligned to regulated environments.
• Implement end-to-end authentication and authorization using OAuth2/OIDC, SSO, and token-based access; design RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC, tenant-aware authorization, API scopes/claims, and service-to-service identity (e.g., managed identities).
• Own observability and reliability patterns (structured logging, metrics, tracing, SLOs, alerting, incident response) and participate in troubleshooting production issues.
• Create actionable architecture artifacts (ADRs, sequence diagrams, domain flows, deployment diagrams, runbooks) that teams can execute against.
• Design, build, and deploy AI agents that automate business process flows using Azure OpenAI APIs, function calling, orchestration frameworks, and RAG pipelines, with guardrails, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop controls for regulated environments.
• Drive peer architecture and code reviews, coach engineers, and raise engineering standards across onshore/offshore teams.
• Lead and mentor teams in agentic development practices, including spec-driven workflows, AI-assisted coding (Claude Code, Codex), and automated test/review generation.

What you'll need

• 10+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years in architecture/solution design (or equivalent scope).
• Proven experience designing and operating solutions in a regulated global environment (privacy, auditability, security controls, cross-border considerations).
• Strong Azure experience designing and building cloud-native solutions using Microsoft PaaS and frameworks, including Azure OpenAI APIs for AI-enabled features and agent-based automation.
• Strong experience architecting Next.js and/or React applications at scale.
• Demonstrated experience with event-driven and distributed system design and production operations.
• Hands-on experience with agentic development tools and practices (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, spec-driven development) and a track record of leading engineering teams in AI-assisted delivery workflows.
• Strong communication skills: can explain tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with enterprise integrations (HRIS, payroll providers, finance systems) and/or iPaaS patterns.
• Strong testing and automation mindset (TDD/BDD, CI/CD quality gates).
• Experience with data modeling, SQL, and reporting/analytics.
• Microsoft certifications (Azure Solutions Architect or similar).
• Experience designing AI agents to automate business process flows (e.g., using Azure OpenAI Assistants API, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, or similar orchestration frameworks).
• Master's degree preferred; Bachelor's degree required.

Details

• Based in the Bangalore office, with the possibility of a hybrid work mode.