Client description: Recent start-up building a global scale products suite for compliance and law related solutions

Role details:

• Title: Product Architect – Azure
• Reporting Manager: Director – Platform Architecture
• Location: Chennai

Role & responsibilities:

• Drill down and define Azure related architectural vision, strategy and road-map, from the overall enterprise platform architecture, backed by business case / ROI, aligned to the business needs (including end user requirements)
• Solution for, define, design, document, deliver upon and continually improve Azure elements in the overall Platform Architecture of the company, including on functional requirements, application performance, scale, deployment infrastructure capacity and security
• Collaborate with stakeholders including the Head of Platform Architecture, Product Development teams, R&D function TechOps team and other functions to socialise the solutions, steer their adoption, sustenance and continual improvement
• Establish Azure-related tech stacks, tools, processes and governance thereof, covering architecture / design reviews
• Define, decide and document Azure-related platform architecture road-map choices, with detailed recommendations – addressing both functional and non-functional requirements (scale, security, performance, etc.), including – but not limited to:
  • PoCs / Pilots
  • Reusable components
  • Application frameworks
  • Integration mechanisms and models
  • Common services 
  • Includes decisions on tech stacks, tools, processes and associated governance – including for automation / DevOps – CI / CD, etc.
• Optimize and simplify the existing architecture, where essential.
• Lead Azure-driven product technology innovation and continuous improvement from the front

Candidate requirements:

• 11 – 14 years of relevant experience, including in building microservices and API-driven scalable SaaS applications on Azure cloud
• Azure Architecture certification
• Proven subject matter expertise, deep knowledge and rich experience in Azure platform and Cloud architecture
• Proven expertise in building low latency, high availability, high concurrency, transaction-heavy performant and secure products / platforms based on scalable microservices architecture and APIs, in a distributed environment
• Business technology acumen in advocacy of FOSS (free & open source software)
• Expertise in multiple architecture / design patterns and identifying and effectively applying them, based on the needs of the business
• Experience with and expertise in end-to-end application frameworks, across multiple deployment processes and models
• Demonstrable experience with application frameworks
• Proven ability to deliver Azure technical artifacts on time with high quality, to a diverse audience

• Depth of experience with: 
  • Front-end JS frameworks, HTML / CSS 
  • Node JS
  • SQL and NOSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Graph database, etc)
  • Data and Analytics architectures, data modelling and design
  • Integration and interfaces 
  • Messaging and caching architectures 
  • Multiple web application servers 
  • Web application access standards and protocols like OAuth, SAML, OpenID Connect and others
• Strong business communication, articulation and presentation skills
• Drive, self-motivation with ability to work both independently and collaboratively, as the situation demands
• Preferably, a thought leader with industry presence. with significant contributions through speaking in seminars / webinars, tech talks, white papers / PoV (points of view), townhalls, techno-blogs, industry journal articles and suchlike