Software Architect jobs in India

You'll spearhead the software architecture team, shaping the technology landscape of our insurance business. The role involves designing high-quality, scalable software systems and driving innovation in the life insurance industry.

We are seeking a Principal Software Architect for a role focused on developing and implementing high-level software designs and platforms. This position requires a thorough understanding of various programming languages and architecture models.

Your Responsibilities

• Architecture and Design: Work with software engineers and architects to make cloud architecture decisions, ensuring scalability, security, and performance of the platform.
• Process Improvement: Review and optimize cloud-related processes, ensuring smooth transitions and continuous improvement.
• Security Implementation: Evaluate, discuss, and implement security requirements, ensuring compliance with best practices for cloud applications.
• Concept Creation: Design cloud concepts focusing on scalability, security, and performance to meet business requirements.
• Documentation: Create clear and maintainable documentation to ensure transparency, effective knowledge transfer, and ease of operation in the cloud environment.

what we are looking for

Technical

• Cloud Platforms: Deep experience with AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon RDS with Aurora Serverless, Amazon S3, and Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate.
• CI/CD & Automation: Experience with GitLab CI, EC2-based runners, and automation tools such as Renovate Bot and Semantic Release.
• Security: Knowledge of AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Systems Manager, and secure access configurations for cloud environments.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Hands-on experience with Docker, ECR, ECS, and container orchestration tools.
• Monitoring & Observability: Familiarity with Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry for performance monitoring and metric capturing.
• Database & Storage: Experience with MySQL on Amazon RDS, Aurora Serverless, and file storage solutions like Amazon S3.
• Scripting & Configuration Management: Familiarity with AWS Lambda, Liquibase for schema management, and experience with configuration management for scalable cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with software solutions in cloud environments.

Personal

• Require 7+ years of technology experience with trending technologies.
• At least 5+ years of experience in design and development of software, experience with large multinational organisations is highly preferred.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Proactive cost reduction, automation, and improvements in process efficiency.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Highly motivated and results oriented.
• High Energy, able to motivate, collaborate and to generate followership.
• Strong communication skills, with demonstrated capability in engaging a large, distributed organisation.