Principal Architect (CXOS)

Circles

51d

About The Position

As a key member of our team, your responsibilities include: Layout the platform architecture vision and strategy to build out the Circles-X Operating System (CXOS) to be a truly SaaS telco operating system. Derive the short-, medium- and long-term platform architectural roadmap with a robust/scalable architecture which provides the foundation in a truly extensible manner to successfully navigate our SaaS journey. Continuous monitoring of the architectural vision, strategy, roadmap, KPIs/OKRs and reporting the RAG status to the senior management at suitable intervals Provide architectural leadership and guidance, review and establish architectural principles to engineering and all stakeholders. Produce validated comprehensive architectural documentation and make them readily available to engineering teams. Ensure the architectural roadmap is fully aligned with the delivery plans Making sure that the architectural designs are viable both technically and commercially Be responsible for resolving architectural limitations/issues with zero/minimal impact to the deliveries Proactively identify R&D needs to be competitive in the market and drive the execution of the same Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to bring out the best solution viable both technically and commercially Proactively identify deployment, performance and security issues by closely collaborating with DevOps/InfoSec/Perf and Scale teams Bring in industry best practices such as architectural auditing, quality gates, etc into the organization and come up with implementation plans. Evaluation and approval of any 3rd party software needs by assessing various aspects such as stability, performance, cost, licensing, etc Ability to be hands on and drive into the weeds on at least one of the following technology stacks and frameworks - Spring Boot-Java, Go Lang

Requirements

At least 15 years of experience with a proven track record, 5+ years of experience in the capacity of a Principal/Senior Software Architect.
Degree/Masters in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent
Telco domain experience and knowledge will be an added advantage
Complete understanding and experience of Microservices based architecture design patterns and strategies
Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns
Domain Driven Design principles, Strategic and Tactical Software architecture patterns and anti patterns
Evolutionary architecture
Messaging design patterns and their relevant applications
Strategies to handle exponential scale
Cloud based development and deployment
Cloud native engineering principals
Testing strategies from TDD to BDD and their practical application
SDLC activities (Analysis /Design/Development/Deploy)
Source Control Systems ( GIT/SVN)
CI /CD Pipelines
Delivery methodologies - Scrum/Feature driven development, XP
Databases (RDBMS/NOSQL)
Data engineering
Strong communication and evangelizing skills
Experience in collaboration with different stakeholders like vendors, product managers, developers
Experience working with globally distributed teams
Experience in hyper growth startups would be an advantage

Responsibilities

Layout the platform architecture vision and strategy to build out the Circles-X Operating System (CXOS) to be a truly SaaS telco operating system.
Derive the short-, medium- and long-term platform architectural roadmap with a robust/scalable architecture which provides the foundation in a truly extensible manner to successfully navigate our SaaS journey.
Continuous monitoring of the architectural vision, strategy, roadmap, KPIs/OKRs and reporting the RAG status to the senior management at suitable intervals
Provide architectural leadership and guidance, review and establish architectural principles to engineering and all stakeholders.
Produce validated comprehensive architectural documentation and make them readily available to engineering teams.
Ensure the architectural roadmap is fully aligned with the delivery plans
Making sure that the architectural designs are viable both technically and commercially
Be responsible for resolving architectural limitations/issues with zero/minimal impact to the deliveries
Proactively identify R&D needs to be competitive in the market and drive the execution of the same
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to bring out the best solution viable both technically and commercially
Proactively identify deployment, performance and security issues by closely collaborating with DevOps/InfoSec/Perf and Scale teams
Bring in industry best practices such as architectural auditing, quality gates, etc into the organization and come up with implementation plans.
Evaluation and approval of any 3rd party software needs by assessing various aspects such as stability, performance, cost, licensing, etc
Ability to be hands on and drive into the weeds on at least one of the following technology stacks and frameworks - Spring Boot-Java, Go Lang