Job Title: Enterprise Architect – Platform & Engineering Systems
Experience: 12 to 16+ years

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to define and drive the technical architecture strategy across platform and engineering systems. You will provide architectural leadership across backend, frontend, DevOps, cloud, and security domains. This role ensures alignment between technology and business goals, promotes standardization, and enables scalable, secure, and maintainable systems.

You will collaborate closely with engineering leads, product managers, DevOps, and business stakeholders to deliver cohesive architecture that supports high-performance product development.

Key Responsibilities

Define and evolve enterprise architecture across backend, frontend, cloud, and DevOps domains

Establish and maintain architecture guidelines, best practices, and design standards

Advise engineering teams on technology choices, tools, and integration patterns

Conduct design reviews and ensure alignment with architectural principles

Prioritize and guide technical debt reduction and legacy modernization efforts

Align technical solutions with business needs and product goals

Lead architecture reviews for scalability, performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency

Ensure compliance with security standards, secrets management, and identity integration

Support teams with cloud infrastructure, observability, and automation

Primary Skills & Expertise Architecture & Development

Strong understanding of full-stack architecture (preferably Python-based systems)

Proficient in: Python (Django), Go, Rust, TypeScript

Frontend: React.js, Tailwind CSS, HTML/CSS

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS services: S3, RDS, EC2, Lambda

Kubernetes, Terraform, Nginx

DevOps & Automation

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins

Security & Compliance

HashiCorp Vault, FusionAuth

Monitoring & Observability

Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch

Data & Messaging

Redis, Kafka, GraphQL

Deployment

Static React apps hosted on Nginx

CI/CD pipelines, containerized services

Nice to Have

Experience in product/platform engineering environments

Background in microservices and modern frontend frameworks

Exposure to build vs. buy decisions

Familiarity with agile development, cross-functional collaboration

Experience mentoring engineering teams and leading architecture reviews

Strong leadership and stakeholder communication skills

Hands-on experience designing distributed systems

Pragmatic approach to long-term system maintainability

Ability to work across multiple teams and influence at various organizational levels