Title: Staff Software Architect
Location: Chennai, India
Department: Business Systems
Job Purpose
As a Staff Software Architect, you will be responsible for architecting and designing cutting edge enterprise backend services responsible for digital transformation within Trimble. This role is ideal for someone passionate about building highly scalable cloud native backend services that provides a transformative customer experience.
Main Responsibilities
Architecture Strategy: Lead the design of complex, multi-region, and highly available distributed systems. Author documentation to standardize how we use [AWS/Azure] components.
Technical Governance: Spearhead Architectural Reviews. Review high-stakes designs from various pods to ensure alignment with global reliability and security standards.
Cloud Economics (FinOps): Partner with Finance and Engineering leadership to manage cloud budget, implementing automated cost-control measures and attribution models.
Platform Evolution:



Lead the transition toward [Serverless / Kubernetes / Internal Developer Platforms] to abstract away infrastructure complexity for product development teams
Mentorship & Influence: You don't manage people, but you manage outcomes. You will be fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
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Qualifications & Experience
Experience: 10+ years in software engineering or systems architecture, with at least 5 years focused on large-scale cloud environments.
Expertise: Deep, "under-the-hood" knowledge of cloud primitives (Networking, IAM, Storage, Compute) and orchestration (Kubernetes, Nomad), event-driven patterns (Kafka).
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Mastery of Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation at an enterprise scale (modular design, state management, and CI/CD integration).
Communication: Proven ability to translate complex technical "debt" into business risk for non-technical stakeholders.
Skill Set
Positive understanding of cloud native backend services, and their operating

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