Tech. Architect - CBT Platform

Technical Architect responsible for designing, scaling, and governing a high-performance Computer-Based Testing (CBT) platform supporting large-scale, concurrent examinations. The role will own application architecture, microservices, assessment engine, data architecture, integrations, security, scalability, and platform reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end CBT platforms supporting high concurrency, multi-tenancy, and large-scale examinations.
• Design architecture for exam creation, scheduling, candidate management, question delivery, response capture, evaluation, scoring, results, and reporting.
• Design and govern microservices architecture using Node.js and Golang.
• Architect scalable web applications using Next.js and modern JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks.
• Design and optimize MongoDB data models, indexing, replication, and high-volume transaction handling.
• Develop scalable APIs and integrations with LMS, ERP, IAM, and third-party platforms.
• Architect secure mechanisms for question paper delivery, candidate authentication, response storage, and examination data protection.
• Design reliable exam session management, autosave, timer, reconnect/recovery, and state persistence mechanisms.
• Drive high availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and exam-day scalability.
• Conduct architecture reviews, capacity planning, performance testing, and system optimization.
• Define technical standards for APIs, microservices, databases, security, logging, monitoring, and deployment.
• Provide technical leadership to engineering teams and drive architecture modernization.

Core Technical Skills

Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Git

Backend & Data: PHP, Python, Golang, Next.js, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL

AI/ML & CV: AI/ML models, behavioral analytics, YOLO (object detection), video analysis

Architecture: Serverless, microservices, secure system design

Work Location - Chennai (Work from Office)