About the role
We're looking for a Senior Architect - Platform to drive the architecture and technical direction of large-scale, highly reliable platforms. If you have 13-19 years of experience and enjoy solving complex problems across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, scalability, reliability, and developer experience, this could be a great opportunity.
Responsibilities:
- Define and drive the architecture and technical roadmap for platform engineering initiatives.
- Design highly scalable, resilient and secure distributed systems and platform services.
- Lead architecture decisions across cloud infrastructure, APIs, services, data and integrations.
- Establish engineering standards around scalability, reliability, performance, security and observability.
- Work closely with Engineering, Product, SRE, DevOps and Security teams to build robust platform capabilities.
- Drive modernisation of existing systems and adoption of modern architectural patterns.
- Solve complex technical challenges involving high availability, fault tolerance, latency and scale.
- Mentor senior engineers and architects while influencing technical direction across teams.
- Evaluate new technologies and make pragmatic build-vs-buy and architecture decisions.
- Translate business and product requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Requirements:
- 13-19 years of strong software/platform engineering experience.
- Proven experience designing large-scale distributed systems and platforms.
- Strong understanding of microservices, APIs, cloud-native architecture and system design.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS / Azure / GCP.
- Strong knowledge of containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD and infrastructure automation.
- Solid understanding of databases, caching, messaging and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with high-scale, highly available production systems.
- Strong understanding of observability, reliability and performance engineering.
- Excellent architecture, problem-solving and technical communication skills.
- Ability to influence engineering teams and drive technical decisions across organisational boundaries.