Job Description

Payload Architect (15+ Years)
Role Overview:
We are searching for a visionary Payload Architect with over 15 years of experience to define the strategic blueprint for our data interchange and service ecosystem. You will be responsible for the overarching system design, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security, while providing technical leadership to multiple engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities:

• Define and own the long-term architecture strategy for payload processing, serialization, and messaging across the entire enterprise.
• Architect highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and microservices platforms.
• Make critical technology decisions regarding serialization & messaging frameworks (e.g., Avro vs. Protobuf, Kafka vs. RabbitMQ) to meet business and technical goals.
• Design and oversee the implementation of cloud-native solutions on major platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), optimizing for cost and performance.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineers and development teams, establishing best practices and architectural guardrails.
• Architect data persistence strategies, ensuring optimal use of PostgreSQL and MongoDB and other data stores within the ecosystem.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders, including Product, Security, and Infrastructure, to align technical strategy with business objectives.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive innovation within the platform.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Minimum 15 years of professional software development experience, with at least 8 years in a dedicated architecture role.
• Mastery in designing large-scale, distributed architectures and systems.
• Deep, foundational expertise in data serialization, deserialization, and messaging paradigms (synchronous/asynchronous, event-driven).
• Extensive hands-on experience architecting and deploying complex solutions on at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Proven leadership experience in guiding technical teams and making enterprise-level technology decisions.
• Expert-level knowledge of database architecture, including PostgreSQL and MongoDB, for diverse use cases.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

Skills Required