Technical Lead - Software Architecture and Engineering

Responsibilities

Pure Architecture & Low-Level Design (LLD)

• Layered Microservices Design: Architect and evolve highly scalable, decoupled, and layered microservices architectures using Java ecosystem standards.

• Database & Framework Architecture: Design robust, high-performance database schemas (SQL/NoSQL). Establish standard, language-agnostic foundational frameworks to streamline development across disparate teams.

• Low-Level Design (LLD): Translate high-level business requirements into clean, maintainable low-level technical designs, class diagrams, and execution blueprints.

2. Engineering Excellence & CI/CD

• Automated Code Governance: Set up automated tool-based code review workflows (e.g., SonarQube) to maintain high code quality and consistency.

• Testing & CI/CD Pipelines: Enforce comprehensive Unit Testing cultures and design/optimize continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for seamless delivery.

• Deprecation Management: Establish automated notification systems for language, library, and framework deprecations to proactively mitigate technical debt.

3. Non-Functional Testing (NFT) & Security

• Security & Compliance: Drive vulnerability management and license compliance, ensuring software/language deprecations and security flaws are proactively caught using tools like Black Duck.

• Standardized Exception Handling: Define and implement enterprise-grade, generic exception-handling frameworks across platforms to ensure system resilience and consistent error tracking.

• Observability: Architect platform-specific monitoring, logging, and control mechanisms (APM tools) to ensure proactive system health checks and alerting.

4. Product, AI Innovation & Communication

• AI Integration: Lead the design and implementation of next-generation intelligent features leveraging Google Gemini AI models.

• Product Impact Documentation: Author comprehensive impact analysis documentation, detailing how architectural changes affect product scaling, user experience, and business goals.

• Enablement: Deliver high-quality user manuals, technical write-ups, and training materials for cross-functional engineering and product teams.

• Hierarchy-Busting Communication: Act as a proactive communication catalyst. Identify system and process pain points and ensure they are escalated directly to the right decision-makers, deliberately overcoming restrictive or siloed hierarchical structures.