TransPerfect helps organizations navigate the global marketplace. Founder-led for more than three decades, the company has grown organically into the world's largest translation and language services provider, with thousands of employees across 100+ offices and over $1B in annual revenue.
The TransPerfect TechOps team has been a vital part of the company's success since its formation over a decade ago - delivering technology and services that have drastically simplified the lives of our clients and colleagues, from workflow improvements for colleagues to core platform services and scalable client-facing applications.
About this role:
We are looking for a hands-on Senior Technical Architect to own the end-to-end architecture of one of our flagship enterprise SaaS products. You will set the technical vision, evolve the multi-tier reference architecture, drive modernisation initiatives, and partner with product, security and SRE leaders to scale the platform across recent tenants,
geographies and compliance regimes - while remaining a strong individual contributor on the hardest engineering problems.
DESCRIPTION
- Own the end-to-end technical architecture of the product across UI, API, microservices, data, messaging, caching and cloud infrastructure.
- Define and continuously evolve the reference architecture, target-state blueprints and technology roadmap; balance build-vs-buy and monolith-vs-microservice trade-offs.
- Translate complex business requirements into clear, well-scoped technical solutions and decision records.
- Establish architecture principles, design patterns, coding standards and review gates; chair the architecture review board and approve high-impact designs.
- Drive modernisation initiatives - framework upgrades, containerisation, observability, zero-trust networking and platform consolidation.
- Design for scale, resilience, multi-tenancy and data residency; define SLOs/SLAs together with SRE and product.
- Remain a strong