Sr. Architect - Platform

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.