**Job Description Summary** Senior Staff Software Architect to define and drive the data architecture and strategy for our customer-facing digital platform. This is a hands-on architecture role responsible for building a reliable, scalable and high-performance data foundation spanning data ingestion, ETL, relational data stores, search/indexing and the API serving layer. You will shape how data flows from multiple enterprise sources into Amazon RDS/PostgreSQL and Apache Solr, and how that data is efficiently exposed to customer-facing applications. tex **Job Description** **Role & Responsibilities:** + Define and drive the **long-term data architecture and technology strategy** for the platform, design scalable patterns for **data ingestion, transformation, ETL and data synchronisation** across multiple source systems. + Own the architecture and optimisation strategy for **Apache Solr** , including indexing, search performance and productive retrieval of large datasets. + Provide application-level database architecture leadership for **Amazon RDS/PostgreSQL** , including data modelling, schema design, indexing, query optimisation and database design patterns. + Define how data should move across **source systems → ETL → RDS → Solr → APIs → web applications** . + Drive adoption of **AI-assisted software engineering and AI Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC)** practices to improve developer productivity, quality, automation and speed of delivery. + Define and drive the platform's **Generative AI and Agentic AI strategy** , identifying opportunities to build intelligent capabilities into customer-facing products. + Drive strategies for **data quality, integrity, traceability, monitoring,



logging and auditing** . + Identify performance bottlenecks across database, indexing, search and API layers and lead optimisation initiatives. + Partner closely with **Product Owners, Business Analysts, regional stakeholders, architects and engineering teams** to translate product needs into scalable technical solutions. + Mentor Tech Leads and senior engineers on database, data integration and search architecture. **Technical Exterties:** **Data & Database Architecture** + Deep hands-on experience with **PostgreSQL** and relational database architecture. + Strong expertise in data modelling, schema design, indexing, query optimisation and database performance tuning. + Experience with **Amazon RDS** and cloud-based database architectures. + Ability to operate as an **Application DBA/Database Architect** , helping engineering teams make sound database design and optimisation decisions. **Search & Indexing** + Strong hands-on expertise with **Apache Solr** or comparable enterprise search platforms. + Deep understanding of indexing strategies, search architecture, query performance and large-scale data retrieval. + Experience designing architectures that combine **relational databases with search/indexing platforms** .



**Data Integration** + Strong experience designing **ETL/ELT and data integration architectures** . + Experience integrating data from multiple enterprise systems and designing reliable data pipelines. + Strong understanding of data synchronisation, transformation, validation and error-handling patterns. **Application & Cloud Architecture** + Experience designing data services and APIs supporting **high-volume customer-facing web applications** . + Strong experience with **AWS** , particularly RDS, S3, Lambda and related data services. + Understanding of **Node.js, GraphQL and API architectures** and how application design affects database and search performance. + Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, observability, security, reliability, availability, scalability and performance engineering. **AI Adoption** + Practical knowledge of **Generative AI, large language models, AI agents and Agentic AI architectures** . + Passion for applying AI to both **customer-facing products and the software engineering lifecycle** . **Education & Experience** + Bachelor's or Master's degree in **Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology** or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. + **15+ years of software engineering/data engineering experience** , with significant experience in data architecture and technical leadership. + Proven experience designing data platforms for **large-scale customer-facing applications** . + Demonstrated ability to influence architecture and engineering practices across multiple teams. + Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical teams and product/business stakeholders.

📌 Senior Staff Enterprise Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 GE Healthcare
📍 Bengaluru