Senior Application Architect [For Pooling]

Position Description:

The Senior Application Architect is an individual contributor responsible for designing modern application architectures, improving application reliability, and driving cross‑platform modernization initiatives across the organization.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

Application Architecture . Lead the review and evolution of application and service architectures (microservices, event-driven, API first, domain-driven design). . Review and validate solution designs across engineering teams to ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability. . Define architectural standards, blueprints, and application of modernization pathways. Ensure applications align with enterprise guidelines, security requirements, and performance expectations.

Application Reliability . Strengthen application reliability practices. . Serve as the technical escalation point for complex application and integration issues. . Drive improvements in observability, automated fault detection, incident prevention, and root-cause analysis. . Partner with DevOps and Development teams to refine CI/CD pipelines, shift-left quality, and ensure the platform is stable.

Migration & Modernization Initiatives . Plan and coordinate application migration and modernization programs (e.g., cloud migration, platform upgrades, modernization programs). . Identify architectural risks, define mitigation strategies, and ensure controlled execution. . Track progress, eliminate blockers, and ensure successful delivery of migration waves.

Technical Leadership & Governance . Own cross-team technical planning for application migration, modernization and reliability uplift initiatives. . Conduct deep-dive architecture reviews, technical assessments, and design walkthroughs. . Align technical stakeholders (e.g. across Product, Development, Security, and Infrastructure) to ensure cohesive solution delivery. . Promote best practices in application design, resilience engineering, documentation, and operational excellence.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Education . Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.

Work Experience . 5+ years in Application Architecture. . Experience designing modern application architectures (cloud-native, microservices, distributed systems). . Exposure to application modernization or system transformation initiatives. . Experience operating and supporting production-grade application platforms. . Familiarity with CI/CD practices and application deployment automation.

Skills & Competencies . Experience with Java and front-end technologies (e.g. vueJS, nextJS). . Strong foundation in application and integration architecture (APIs, queues, microservices, cloud platforms such as Azure/AWS). . Knowledge of application observability, logging, monitoring, and performance engineering. . Familiarity with DevOps practices. . Strong troubleshooting skills involving application performance, distributed systems, and integrations. . Ability to drive cross-functional collaboration across engineering, security, product, and operational teams. . Strong ownership mindset with excellent planning and execution discipline. . Effective communication and stakeholder influencing skills.

Skills:

• Java

• Vue.js

What you can expect from us:

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