Job Description

THE ROLE - Principal Technical Architect
Join us on a transformative journey as we migrate our document and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) platform from mainframe-based applications to a cloud-based platform on AWS. As Principal Technical Architect with a strong background in software engineering, you'll play the key role in driving this transformation by setting among our workstreams, designing and implementing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions that leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and DevOps practices. You'll work closely with our software development teams to ensure that our cloud infrastructure is optimized for our applications, and that our applications are designed to take full advantage of the cloud infrastructure, with development processes aligned with cloud best practices.
You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, architects, and other stakeholders to make key technical decisions, drive technical excellence, and ensure that our cloud infrastructure and applications are highly performant, secure, and scalable. Your expertise will be crucial in shaping the future of our cloud infrastructure and applications, and in driving the adoption of cloud technologies and practices across our team.
If you're passionate about cloud computing, software development, and driving technical innovation with the goal of enabling a seamlessly operating, scalable platform for our users, we invite you to apply and help shape the future of our cloud infrastructure and applications.
Your Responsibilities
Set infrastructure standards among our platform teams
Shape the roadmap for our AWS infrastructure team
Work closely within a cross-functional Product team in which you enable the application developers by understanding requirements, designing, & implementing the solutions with AWS resources
Combine theoretical best practices such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework with your personal experience to find the best solution for our current challenges
Engage in Platform & Enterprise Architecture rounds to promote company-wide adoption
Evaluate and implement security and compliance strategies, ensuring cloud environments meet industry & internal standards as efficiently as possible
Bring in your experience by promoting technical advancements
Research trends and evaluate their adoption in our practical world (e.g. GenAI, automation..)
Continually optimize cloud infrastructure for scalability, security, and performance to maximize reliability, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of our platform.
Design processes for collaboration with operation & application teams
Lead migration projects from initial assessment to operating & optimization
Create cloud migration and infrastructure management processes, ensuring smooth transitions, continuous optimization and automation.
Team management & leadership
What we are looking for
Technical
Proven experience with a wide range of AWS services:
Docker, ECS, Fargate
EC2
EKS
& more..
Proven ability to design and implement performing systems that can handle high load:
High performance
High throughput
Scalable systems
Multi-threading/high parallelization
Ensuring applications can handle high loads & meet business needs
CI/CD
Maven, NPM, GitLab CI, AWS CodeBuild
Automation tools like Renovate Bot
Semantic Release to streamline deployments
Security & Compliance
AWS Security Hub
Checkmarx
Demonstrating a strong security awareness with experience in threat modeling and related practices
Complex Infrastructure as Code
AWS CDK with TypeScript
Alternative: Terraform and willing to learn CDK
Database & Storage:
Managing cloud-based relational databases like MySQL
schema management using Liquibase
NoSQL databases like MongoDB
Scalable storage solutions like Amazon S3.
Software Engineering : Java programming on enterprise level ,Experience with Spring Boot
Messaging Systems : Kafka , Queueing systems
Monitoring & Observability : Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch ,Datadog, Open Telemetry
Software Engineering: Strong foundation in Java programming on enterprise level and experience with Spring Boot
Personal
You are extremely passionate about your role
You want to deliver value to the team and organization
You want to fully understand a problem, come up with solutions & implement them to see your work running smoothly in production
You have software engineering background
You have worked effectively in multinational teams
You can communicate effectively in English
You can prove your impressive expertise by either
Having 8+ years of experience in a similar role & tech stack or
Having AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certificate or
Having strong project references in which you played a key role
You don't like manual work and want to automate recurring tasks
You like to work independently and with teammates
You want to drive solutions, not just sit in the back-seat

Skills Required