Job Brief
We are seeking a highly experienced Technical Lead / Software Architect with strong expertise in Python, SQL, and AWS cloud technologies. The candidate should be responsible for designing, guiding, and evolving scalable, secure, and cost-efficient distributed systems.You will collaborate closely with engineering, product, security, and operations teams to define architecture standards, drive key technical initiatives, and ensure high system reliability, performance, and scalability.
Roles & Responsibilities
1. Architecture & Design
- Define target-state architectures, reference models, and integration patterns.
- Create high-level and low-level design documentation.
- Lead architectural decisions and provide hands-on guidance to engineering teams.
- Conduct design reviews, proof of concepts (POCs), and solution spikes.
- Drive best practices for scalable, maintainable, and resilient systems.
2. AWS Cloud Leadership
- Establish and enforce AWS best practices, including:
- Multi-account strategy
- IAM least-privilege access
- VPC design and networking
- High availability and resilience
- Capacity planning and cost optimization
- Design and guide implementations using AWS services such as:
- Lambda, API Gateway
- S3, RDS
- CloudWatch, X-Ray
- AWS WAF, KMS, Secrets Manager
- IAM and related security services
3. Security, Reliability & Compliance
- Implement security-by-design principles, including:
- Encryption (in transit & at rest)
- Key management
- Token-based authentication
- Policy-as-code and governance controls
- Work with IT and operations teams to define:
- Disaster recovery strategies (RTO/RPO)
- Chaos engineering practices
- SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
- Collaborate with Security and Compliance teams to meet organizational and regulatory standards.
4. Collaboration & Leadership
- Partner with cross-functional teams to align architecture with business goals.
- Mentor engineers and promote technical excellence and best practices.
- Translate complex architectural concepts into clear, actionable guidance.
Requirements
- 9+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in an architecture/technical leadership role.
- Strong hands-on experience in:
- Python and SQL
- AWS core services and cloud-native architecture
- Proven expertise in system design, including:
- Distributed systems
- APIs and microservices
- Data storage solutions
- Caching and messaging systems
- Event-driven architectures
- Solid understanding of cloud security, scalability, and performance optimization.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical ideas.
