to define and govern the architecture of an enterprise-grade, security-critical policy and event control platform.
The system is a distributed, stateful backend platform operating across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid deployments, with strong requirements around
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_vent determinism, auditability, security, availability, and human-in-the-loop governance_.
Responsibilities:
Define overall system architecture and service/module boundaries.
Translate a detailed SRS into a coherent, scalable technical design.
Design data, eventing, and consistency models for high-volume, security-sensitive systems.
Define security, identity, RBAC, and tenant isolation architecture.
Ensure resilience, offline tolerance, and safe failure handling.
Required Experience
12+ years in backend / system architecture roles.
Prior experience with security-critical or control-oriented platforms (e.g., access control, policy engines, SCADA, telecom, infra systems).
Strong distributed systems and event-driven architecture background.
Experience with on-prem and hybrid deployments.
Comfortable working from large SRS documents.
Validate architectural feasibility of product-guided operational workflows.
Engagement
Freelance / consulting role
6-12 weeks (extendable)
Remote with periodic review discussions
This role is hands-on architecture and governance, not people management.
Not meant for UI/UX architects, DevOps-only architects, Cloud-only solution architects or Architects who have never designed stateful, safety-adjacent systems.