System Architect – Platform Engineering & Cloud

Overview

Own and evolve the end-to-end technical architecture for the platform ecosystem, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, integrated, resilient, cost-effective, and operationally reliable. This is a hands-on architecture and engineering role.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end architecture across application, platform, data, and integration layers
• Create HLDs, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and key technical designs
• Guide LLDs and ensure implementations remain aligned with architectural intent
• Define standards for APIs, microservices, data flows, identity, integration, and cloud-native solutions
• Make technical trade-offs across scalability, reliability, security, performance, maintainability, and cloud cost
• Actively participate in software development and complex feature implementation
• Write, debug, test, and review production-quality code
• Build prototypes, reference implementations, reusable components, and technical accelerators
• Participate in code and design reviews and improve engineering quality and maintainability
• Validate architectural decisions through working software, testing, and production evidence
• Design distributed and cloud-native solutions across AWS and Azure
• Establish reusable capabilities for identity, integration, environments, containerisation, CI/CD, and microservices
• Guide application modernisation and cloud adoption
• Design for high availability, resilience, scalability, security, and cost efficiency
• Reduce project-specific solutions through reusable platform services and engineering patterns
• Define observability across logging, metrics, tracing, health checks, dashboards, and alerting
• Lead diagnosis of complex cross-system production issues, working directly with code, telemetry, configuration, integrations, and infrastructure to identify root cause
• Drive technical resolution through implementation and stabilisation
• Address recurring issues through architectural and engineering improvements
• Ensure systems are secure, observable, supportable, and production-ready
• Establish architecture and engineering standards across teams
• Mentor engineers through architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on technical guidance
• Evaluate technologies and frameworks based on engineering value, risk, cost, and long-term sustainability
• Partner with Product, Security, Data, DevOps, Product Support, and Engineering teams while retaining architectural accountability

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• 10+ years of software engineering, architecture, or distributed-systems experience
• Strong hands-on Java development experience
• Production experience designing/implementing cloud-native systems on AWS/Azure
• Strong experience with distributed systems, APIs, microservices, data/integration patterns, and production troubleshooting
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, relational databases, and modern software engineering practices

Nice to have

• AWS and/or Azure Solution Architect certification

Details

• Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu