25 Aug
|
SynapOne
|
Gurugram
Role:- Technical Architect/Senior Technical Architect
Location:- Gurgaon
Exp:- 10+ years
Senior Technical Architect
CMS & Digital Experience Platforms
Role Context
We are looking for a Senior Technical Architect to provide technical leadership on an established, large-scale enterprise digital program (a running account with multi-year continuity). This is a hands-on-enough architecture leadership role: you will own the technical quality of the platform end to end, drive estimation and solutioning, and act as the guardian of non-functional requirements — security, performance, accessibility, and analytics/observability — across every release.
The right person is equally comfortable in an architecture review, an estimation workshop, and a client-facing solution conversation, and can hold the technical line on a mature codebase while continuously modernizing it. The role is not tied to a single account — you will be expected to bring architecture leadership across engagements as needs evolve.
What You'll Own
Architecture & Solution Design
- Define and evolve the end-to-end architecture for enterprise web, mobile, and CMS-driven applications on the account.
- Design composable, headless, API-first, and microservices-based solutions that are scalable, secure, and high-performing.
- Establish and maintain architecture standards, design principles, and governance frameworks.
- Lead technical discovery, solution roadmaps, and modernization planning.
CMS & Digital Experience Platforms
- Architect enterprise CMS/DXP solutions, including headless and hybrid patterns.
- Define content modeling, personalization, localization, workflow, and publishing strategies.
- Lead CMS migrations, upgrades, and modernization programs.
- Integrate the CMS with CRM, CDP, DAM, marketing automation, and analytics platforms.
Technical Leadership & Quality
- Provide technical leadership across front-end and back-end engineering teams.
- Own coding standards, architecture reviews, performance tuning, and secure-by-design practices.
- Define reusable components, shared platform services, and API contracts.
Cloud & DevOps
- Architect cloud-native solutions and own CI/CD, IaC, containerization, and orchestration.
- Define observability,
monitoring, logging, and DR frameworks.
Estimation & Stakeholder Management
- Lead effort estimation, solution costing, and pre-sales / proposal support for the account.
- Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Partner with product owners, delivery managers, and client stakeholders; mentor the team.
Must-Have (Required):
Experience & Leadership
- 10+ years in software engineering, with 4-5+ years as a Technical / Solution Architect.
- Proven track record delivering and sustaining large-scale CMS/DXP programs, ideally on an established / running enterprise account.
- Demonstrated ownership of technical quality, estimation, and stakeholder communication.
CMS / DXP
- Deep, hands-on — architecture experience with at least one enterprise CMS/DXP — e.g., Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Sitecore, Optimizely, Contentful, or Drupal.
- Practical experience with headless / hybrid / composable CMS patterns, content modeling, personalization, and multi-locale publishing.
- Experience leading a CMS migration or modernization program.
Front-End Architecture
- Deep hands-on experience with at least one modern JS framework (React, Angular, Vue, or Next.js) and strong command of TypeScript / ES6+.
- Component / design-system thinking and front-end performance ownership. (Breadth across multiple frameworks is a plus, not a requirement.)
Back-End / Services Architecture
- Depth in at least one server-side stack (.NET Core, Java/Spring Boot, Node.js, or Python).
- Strong REST and/or GraphQL API design.
Distributed & Integration Architecture
- API-first and microservices design.
- Event-driven architecture, pub/sub, and messaging/streaming (e.g., Kafka, Azure Service Bus, or equivalent); reactive patterns.
Cloud & DevOps
- Cloud-native architecture on at least one major cloud (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
- CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and containerization/orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes).
Data
- Polyglot persistence — comfortable with at least one relational and one NoSQL store; able to make sound data-modeling and caching decisions.
Non-Functional Requirements (core to this role)
- Demonstrable ownership of security (secure-by-design, OWASP, IAM concepts), performance & scalability, accessibility (WCAG), and analytics/observability.
Good-to-Have (Advantageous)
- Breadth across multiple front-end frameworks and/or back-end languages.
- Additional CMS platforms beyond the primary (e.g., AEM and Sitecore/Optimizely/Drupal).
- Deep integration-platform experience: MuleSoft, Boomi, API Gateway products, enterprise service bus.
- gRPC; advanced GraphQL federation.
- Deep IAM / auth architecture: OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, Zero Trust.
- Experience applying GenAI / LLMs to content generation or engineering delivery (with governance / human-in-the-loop).
- Second cloud, or multi-cloud / hybrid experience.
- Broader datastore experience (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cosmos DB, Redis).
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
- Strong understanding of performance, scalability, and security best practices.
- Client-facing consulting experience and the ability to lead geographically distributed teams.
Preferred Certifications (any of the following are a plus)
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert / AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional).
- AEM, Sitecore, or equivalent CMS certification.
- CKA / Kubernetes certification.
- Scrum / Agile certifications.
Soft Skills
- Solid communication and stakeholder management.
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making.
- Ability to influence architecture direction across teams.
- Strong mentoring and leadership.
Key Deliverables
- Enterprise architecture blueprints and solution design documents.
- Technical roadmaps and CMS architecture strategy.
- Integration and cloud architecture frameworks.
- Security & governance standards.
- Estimation models and performance-optimization recommendations.
📌 Technical Architect-CMS and Digital Experience (Gurugram)
🏢 SynapOne
📍 Gurugram