Job title: Lead Solution Architect – MFS

Work Location: Gurgaon

Division/Department: Engineering

Reports to: Head of Architecture

Why Airtel Africa?

At Airtel, we don’t just make things – we make things possible. Airtel Africa is on a mission to change the world by connecting people with ideas. We are building next generation systems to improve the quality of life for millions of users spanned across 14+ countries.

What will you do?

If you are passionate about building, owning and operating massively scalable systems and experienced in being in a team of highly competent software engineers impacting millions of lives around you, here is an opportunity tailored for you.

As a Solution Architect, you will interact with business stakeholder & engineering team to solve problems and build, extend, optimize and refactor the architecture of our growing product portfolio in the Fintech domain. Airtel Africa Digital Labs (AADL) has a highly passionate engineering-driven environment where your contribution will have an impact.

•Provide product solutions, architectural and design guidance to projects to drive the vision of the FinTech products.

•End to end call flows from channel

- Own Technical components of one or more platforms in Fintech domain, including channels, (mobileApp/USSD).

•Propose design and architectural solutions and oversee implementation of the design approaches and business integration through all stages of system development.

•Evaluate the applicability of new technologies through proof-of-concept.

•Keep up-to-date on the latest developments in technology, security, best practices and industry standards

•Be subject matter expert and ensure alignment to overall architecture goals

- Collaborate with the product development & stakeholders by clearly articulating the target landscape and ensuring LLD compliance with HLD




- Ability to resolve on extraordinary issues at technical level
- Look patterns and evolve architecture for reusability and resilience.
- Use best practices to configure each product like Kafka, Redis, NoSQL database for performance and scalability.
- Design and own components of a highly scalable, distributed platform
- Own current Technical complexity, and define road map and Transition Architecture • Own Tech debts

What will make you successful?

- B.E./B.Tech in Computer science or Information Technology with 12+ years of experience in a scalable product organization, experience in Fintech domain.
- End to end call flows for Mobile money applications.

•Experience in scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed channel agnostic platforms

•Highly Technical and Design Oriented

•An ability to plan for the future while solving for the present

•Good communication skills and flexibility oriented mindset

•Decisiveness and an execution driven mindset

What do you bring to the table?

•Excellent skills in JAVA

•Experience in Fintech domain

•Experience architecting microservices landscape and breaking monolithic into microservices

•Robust knowledge of Performance optimization and caching techniques.

•Well verse with Design patterns

•Excellent skills in any of Data streaming or queuing technologies (Kafka, RabitMQ etc)

•Well verse with Relational and Non – relational DB (Mongo DB, redis cache)

Tools & Technologies:

Out of many tools and technologies, we use Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, MongoDb, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka extensively for our back-end development

Critical Aspects about this role:

•High complexity but strong work in this team hence we need someone who is ok with managing multiple parallel projects.

•We need someone who should have worked on platform architect level.

•Preference is to get people already serving notice or early joiners.

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