Technical Architect (React.js / TypeScript / Node.js / Azure)

About the Role

A reputed tax and audit consulting organization is seeking a Technical Architect to provide end-to-end architecture leadership for a modern digital platform built using React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL and Microsoft Azure. The Technical Architect will be accountable for technology direction, architectural integrity, non-functional requirements, security alignment, engineering standards and cross-platform integration across multiple delivery teams.

Role Intent

Own the target application architecture and technical roadmap.

Define platform-wide architecture principles and reference patterns.

Provide authority for major cross-team technical decisions.

Ensure alignment across portal, services, data, integration, identity and operations.

Govern scalability, security, resilience and production readiness.

Guide Associate Technical Architects, Technical Leads and engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities Architecture Authority

Define and maintain the technical architecture vision and roadmap.

Establish reference architectures for React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL and Azure.

Approve major architecture decisions and exceptions.

Maintain architecture principles, standards, technical-debt views and decision records.

Platform & Experience Architecture

Define boundaries between experience, application, integration, data and operational services.

Establish enterprise React/TypeScript, component, design-system and accessibility standards.

Guide authentication-aware, entitlement-aware and responsive portal architecture.

Prevent tightly coupled designs and duplicated business logic.

Services, Data & Cloud Architecture

Establish Node.js service and API-governance standards.

Guide synchronous, asynchronous and event-driven integrations, resilience and observability.

Define PostgreSQL persistence patterns, data-ownership boundaries, auditing and retention.

Define Azure hosting, identity, secrets, monitoring, networking, scalability and disaster-recovery patterns.

Security, Governance & Stakeholder Leadership

Embed security, threat modeling and confidential-data handling into architecture.

Lead architecture and design-review forums across multiple engineering teams.

Communicate trade-offs, risks and recommendations to product, delivery and executive stakeholders.

Support roadmap planning, vendor alignment, release readiness and production incident reviews.

Primary Skills (Must Have)

Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise application and solution architecture

React.js and TypeScript architecture

Node.js service and API architecture

PostgreSQL and relational-data architecture

Microsoft Azure architecture

Governance & Leadership

Security and identity architecture

Integration and event-driven architecture

Non-functional requirements and capacity planning

Architecture governance, technical roadmaps and decision records

Leadership across multiple engineering teams and senior stakeholder communication

Secondary Skills (Good to Have)

User Experience & Front-End Foundations

HTML5 and semantic markup

CSS3 and responsive web design

Accessibility-aware UI development

React Query, Redux Toolkit, Zustand, Material UI, Fluent UI, Tailwind CSS or Bootstrap

Engineering Tooling

Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library, Playwright or Cypress

Docker and container-based deployment

Azure DevOps, YAML pipelines and automated quality gates

OpenAPI or Swagger

OWASP and secure-coding awareness

Broader Platform Exposure

Micro-frontends, containers and orchestration

API gateways and event-messaging platforms

Data-platform and analytics integration

AI application architecture and RAG awareness

Regulated financial, tax, audit or compliance platforms

AI-Assisted Engineering Experience

Preferred

Cursor or Cursor AI

Claude or Claude Code

GitHub Copilot or comparable AI coding assistants

AI-assisted code generation, refactoring, testing, debugging and documentation

Human review of generated code and compliance with confidentiality, security, licensing and quality controls

Qualifications

10+ years of software-engineering and architecture experience.

At least 3 years in a Technical Architect, Application Architect or comparable architecture role.

Proven architecture experience across React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL and Azure.

Experience guiding multiple engineering teams or delivery partners.

Demonstrated ownership of non-functional requirements and production architecture.

Success Profile

Trusted architecture authority with strong implementation credibility

Defines strategy while understanding delivery realities

Documents clear decisions and trade-offs

Identifies cross-platform risks early

Promotes reuse and reduces technology fragmentation

Develops Associate Architects and Technical Leads