Job Description

In this Hands-On R&D Architect role, you’ll lead architecture and subsystem design from the early stages, implement subsystems, ensure systems are robust, scalable, and performance-driven. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders to capture both functional and non-functional requirements, and translate business goals into innovative, cloud-native solutions.
As a tech visionary, you'll execute POCs, recommend emerging technologies to boost product capabilities and design integrated software-hardware systems with a focus on compatibility and high performance. You'll drive critical design reviews, assess risks, validate technical choices, and act as a trusted advisor throughout the development lifecycle. Your guidance will empower development teams through mentorship and ensure alignment with architectural best practices.

• Lead architecture and subsystem design in early product phases, translating business goals and customer needs into scalable, cloud-native solutions.
• Be a hands-on expert coding, troubleshooting and guiding the team everyday
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define and manage functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring alignment with overall product vision.
• Recommend and integrate emerging technologies to boost product capabilities while designing robust software/hardware systems for performance and compatibility.
• Drive design reviews, risk assessments, and technical validations while mentoring development teams and guiding architectural best practices

You Have:

• Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in Engineering (or equivalent degree) with minimum 12+ years and 8+ years in solution design and software development
• Proven hands-on expertise in system architecture, cloud-native design, and microservices development using Linux, Java, Microservices, Spring Boot, and Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Hands-on experience in Data Architecture with streaming technologies (Flink, Spark, or Storm), VNF-based applications on VMware/OpenStack, and tools like HELM, Minikube, Swagger
• Skilled in automation and CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, and monitoring/logging solutions including Prometheus, Grafana, and the EFK stack
• Strong track record of coaching engineers in agile environments and driving end-to-end technical excellence across complex, scalable systems

It would be nice if you also had:

• Hands-on experience in installing and integrating products in complex, multi-vendor environments
• Expertise in DevOps practices and end-to-end deployment automation

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