Solution Architect

Role & responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, and high-performing enterprise application architectures aligned with business objectives.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle from solution design to production deployment. Drive technical strategy and influence product direction.
• Hands-on development using C#, .NET Core/.NET, ASP.NET Core, Web API, Angular, SQL Server, and related technologies.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices, coding standards, design patterns, and architectural best practices.
• Build Proof of Concepts (PoCs), technical spikes, prototypes, and research initiatives to evaluate emerging technologies.
• Promote AI-assisted software development using tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Cursor or equivalent enterprise AI platforms.
• Evaluate and implement Generative AI use cases including Large Language Models (LLMs), AI Agents, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and Model Context Protocol (MCP) where applicable.
• Design Microservices, RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
• Lead architecture discussions and collaborate with Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment with organizational architecture standards.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Project Managers, QA teams, and Developers to deliver business value.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Perform architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design reviews.
• Establish software quality standards through unit testing, integration testing, code coverage, and automated testing practices.
• Responsible for code quality and implementing coding standards that continually improve the teams output
• Mentor, coach, and develop software engineers and technical leads through continuous knowledge sharing.
• Identify technical risks early and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Ensure applications meet security, compliance, scalability, and performance requirements.
• Participate in estimation, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and Agile ceremonies.
• Maintain high-quality technical documentation using Confluence.

Preferred candidate profile

Candidates with experience in any of the following domains will be preferred:

• Investment Management
• Asset Management
• Wealth Management
• Fund Administration
• Banking
• Capital Markets
• Financial Services

Experience working on enterprise SaaS or product-based platforms with configurable, multi-tenant architectures will be an added advantage.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of software development experience using Microsoft technologies.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in Solution Architecture or Technical Architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience with C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Angular, and SQL Server.
• Experience designing enterprise-scale applications and distributed systems.
• Proven experience leading development teams (including mobile) and mentoring engineers.
• Experience delivering products using Agile methodologies.
• Understanding and exposure to multi environment eco-systems
• Strong critical thinking, decision making, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical audiences
• Ability to provide concise status updates to senior IT and business leadership
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills