Senior Architect

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients Salary range: Rs 4500000 - Rs 9000000 (ie INR 45 - 90 LPA)

Min Experience: 13+ years Location: Bengaluru JobType: full-time

We are looking for an experienced Senior Architect to lead the architecture, design, and technical direction of complex, scalable, and high-performance software solutions. The ideal candidate will have 13–20 years of experience in software engineering and architecture, with strong expertise in Solution Architecture and REST API Design .

You will work closely with engineering teams, product managers, business stakeholders, and technology leaders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions. The role requires strong architectural thinking, hands-on technical understanding, and the ability to guide teams through the complete software development lifecycle.

Requirements

Must-Have Skills

• Strong expertise in Solution Architecture and enterprise application design.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and API-driven architectures.
• 13–20 years of experience in software development, architecture, or technology leadership roles.
• Strong understanding of scalable, secure, highly available, and distributed systems.
• Experience defining architecture standards, design principles, technology choices, and technical roadmaps.
• Strong knowledge of software design patterns, architectural patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Experience working with microservices, cloud-native applications, and distributed architectures.
• Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and make architecture decisions aligned with business objectives.
• Strong understanding of API security, authentication, authorization, versioning, error handling, and performance optimization.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the solution architecture for complex business applications and technology platforms.
• Translate functional and non-functional requirements into scalable and maintainable technical architectures.
• Design robust REST APIs , including API contracts, resource models, authentication mechanisms, versioning, and integration patterns.
• Create high-level and low-level architecture designs, technical specifications, and solution blueprints.
• Establish architectural standards and ensure solutions follow security, scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability requirements.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and business teams to understand requirements and develop effective technology solutions.
• Evaluate existing systems and identify opportunities for modernization, optimization, and architectural improvements.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineers, developers, and technical leads.
• Review technical designs, code approaches, integration strategies, and architecture decisions to ensure alignment with established standards.
• Assess new technologies, frameworks, platforms, and tools and recommend appropriate solutions based on business and technical requirements.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, scalability concerns, and potential bottlenecks early in the development lifecycle.
• Work with engineering teams to ensure successful implementation of architectural designs.
• Support production reliability initiatives and help resolve complex technical and architectural challenges.
• Contribute to technology roadmaps and long-term platform modernization strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• 13–20 years of relevant experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise technology.
• Proven experience architecting large-scale applications and distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on understanding of REST API design and integration .
• Experience with cloud platforms, databases, messaging systems, microservices, and modern application architectures is preferred.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and communication abilities.