Principal Architect - Software

Job description

Key Responsibilities:

· Define the overall architecture and technical vision for the enterprise software product based on the Microsoft technology stack in a SAFe agile environment
· Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications and designs.
· Develop architectural blueprints, solution designs, and technical documentation.
· Conduct architectural reviews and provide guidance to development teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
· Identify and evaluate technical risks and propose mitigation strategies.
· Ensure compliance with coding standards, best practices, and industry standards.
· Collaborate with development teams to review and approve software designs and implementations.
· Stay up to date with the latest technologies, frameworks, and best practices in the Microsoft technology stack.
· Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to development teams.
· Participate in cross-functional meetings, including project planning, status updates, and technical discussions.
· Collaborate with infrastructure and operations teams to ensure the software product can be deployed, managed, and scaled effectively.
· Conduct performance analysis and optimization of the software product.
· Assist in troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues.
· Ensure that the product complies to the Cyber Security standards as mandated by the organization

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Experiences & Exposure : Mandatory

·  Over 14+ years of experience working in enterprise level SW product development based on Microsoft Technology Stack.
·  3+ years of experience as a Software Architect for complex Software Product.
·  Demonstrated capabilities in
·  Ensuring highest standards of Cyber Security is all aspects of product development (architecture, design, development, testing and continuous integration).
·  Playing the role of an architect in a large Agile ecosystem.
·  Developing CI/CD friendly Enterprise SW products.
·  Igniting and sustaining innovation as a culture from a technical dimension
·  Communicating effectively and inspiring teams with a strong technical vision while taking care of the Architectural runway of the product.
·  Big picture thinking.
·  NET 4.6 and above, C#, WCF, ASP.NET with MVC, ADO.NET, REST, Java Script, Angular, Microsoft Report Builder, ASP.Net web services, Type Script, TLS, IIS configuration, COM, DCOM, HTML 5, MSTest (unit test framework), LINQ, MQTT, MSMQ.
·  SQL Server - queries building, Stored Procedures, Views
·  Asynchronous Programming, Multithreading
·  Serialization/ De-serialization of objects

Experiences & Exposure : Nice to have

·  Configuration Management – Azure Devops, Github
·  Knowledge in industrial protocols and Device communication
·  Energy Management / SCADA knowledge
·  Collaboration Services: Yammer, Teams, PowerApps, Power Automate
·  Experience within the Power Platform offering: PowerApps/automate & Power BI
·  PowerShell