Architect- 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 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

Primary Skills

Microservices

• 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 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

Microservices