Job Description

Requirements

- Experience: 11+ years
- Relevant experience in Solution Architecture or a closely related architecture role.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and architecting microservices-based applications.
- Proven experience designing and architecting at least 3 large-scale, secure, resilient, API-driven applications.
- Strong expertise in High-Level Design (HLD), enterprise architecture patterns, and scalable solution design.
- Strong understanding of API-driven architectures, distributed systems, microservices, integration patterns, and enterprise application architecture.
- Strong experience defining architecture standards, best practices, technical guidelines, and reusable solution blueprints.
- Proven experience working within Agile squads/tribes and collaborating with cross-functional product and engineering teams.
- Solid Banking Domain experience, with exposure to areas such as Banking, Wealth Management, Lending, Asset Management, and Accounting.
- Solid understanding of cybersecurity principles and secure application architecture.
- Knowledge of PCI-DSS, GDPR, and UAE regulatory requirements.
- Good understanding of security architecture concepts and secure-by-design practices.
- Exposure to offensive and defensive security concepts is desirable.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, presentation, and influencing skills.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor architects and engineering teams and provide technical leadership.
- Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to make architecture decisions in complex enterprise environments.
- Exposure to AI/GenAI, LLMs,



RAG, Vector Databases, MCP, and AI Agents is desirable.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Git Hub Copilot and Claude Code is an advantage.
- Experience evaluating emerging technologies and translating them into practical enterprise solutions is desirable.
- Security Architect experience or exposure is an added advantag.

Responsibilities

- Define and own solution architecture for large-scale, secure, resilient, and API-driven enterprise applications.
- Design and implement scalable microservices architectures aligned with business and technology objectives.
- Lead High-Level Design (HLD), architecture definition, technology selection, and solution design activities.
- Define architecture patterns, technical standards, best practices, reusable components, and architecture blueprints.
- Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, availability, resilience, security, performance, and maintainability.
- Lead architecture discussions across product, engineering, security, infrastructure, and business teams.
- Collaborate with Agile squads and tribes to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.




- Review solution designs and provide architectural guidance throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Ensure architecture and solutions comply with cybersecurity requirements, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and applicable UAE regulatory requirements.
- Identify architectural risks, technical dependencies, security gaps, and scalability challenges and define appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Work closely with security teams to incorporate secure-by-design principles and appropriate security controls.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to architects, senior engineers, and development teams.
- Manage senior stakeholders and communicate complex technical concepts and architecture decisions effectively.
- Drive adoption of reusable architecture patterns and engineering best practices across projects and teams.
- Contribute to modernization initiatives involving APIs, microservices, cloud-native technologies, and enterprise platforms.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and assess their suitability for enterprise adoption.
- Explore and support AI/GenAI use cases involving LLMs, RAG, Vector Databases, MCP, and AI Agents.
- Evaluate developer productivity and AI-assisted development tools such as Git Hub Copilot and Claude Code.
- Apply understanding of offensive and defensive security concepts when designing and reviewing enterprise solutions.
- Provide architectural support during implementation, testing, deployment, and production stabilization.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.

📌 Principal Engineer (Microservices Architecture) (India)
🏢 Nagarro
📍 India