Job highlights

- transparent decision facilitation. . Min Relevant Experience . 12 18 years overall with 3 5 years leading product / platform architecture

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 event driven patterns (Kafka) with polyglot persistence

Drive container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes: ingress, HPA, rollout/rollback) and IaC (Terraform/Bicep)

Embed security by design (STRIDE, secrets mgmt, zero trust) 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 production grade observability; performance/cost optimization

Soft Skills

Stakeholder influence across product, security, platform, and delivery; clear decision facilitation.

Min Relevant Experience

12 18 years overall with 3 5 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 teams

NeST Principles

Be Customer Focused Deliver Results Raise Standards Dive

Deep Disagree, Discuss & Commit Invent & Reuse Build Trust &

Show Integrity Collaborate Own Build Organizational Capability

📌 Architect-product/platform architecture (Kochi)
🏢 NeST Digital
📍 Kochi