Job Purpose
Own and evolve product/platform architecture to meet roadmap,SLOs, security, and cost targets; provide architecture governance

Responsibilities Internal
Define reference architecture, guardrails, golden paths; maintain
C4/UML and ADRs
• Apply DDD, CQRS/Saga, and eventdriven patterns (Kafka) with
polyglot persistence
• Drive container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes: ingress, HPA,
rollout/rollback) and IaC (Terraform/Bicep)
• Embed securitybydesign (STRIDE, secrets mgmt, zerotrust) and
observability (SLOs, error budgets, tracing/logging/metrics)
• Chair/participate in architecture review councils; ensure standards
compliance and gated releases

Responsibilities Customer/Market
Maintain external market sense; align product choices to customer
needs and roadmap
• Support strategic customer conversations on platform direction
and extensibility

Functional/Technical Competencies




Deep .NET or Java with adjacent stacks; Azure/AWS managed
services
• Eventing & data: Kafka (partitions, consumer groups, retention),
schema evolution, consistency models
• DevSecOps and productiongrade observability; performance/cost
optimization

Soft Skills
Stakeholder influence across product, security, platform, and delivery; transparent decision facilitation.

Min Relevant Experience
1218 years overall with 35 years leading product/platform architecture; shipped at scale.

Key Performance Indicators (examples)
Architecture compliance 90% and ADR cadence/SLAs met
• SLO attainment; cost within guardrails
• Adoption of reusable assets/patterns across teamsRole & responsibilities

📌 Product/platform Architect Kochi
🏢 NeST Digital
📍 Kochi