Principal Solutions Architect (AI & Distributed Systems)

We are seeking an exceptional Principal Solutions Architect who is a highly skilled, hands-on technical expert dedicated to designing, building, operating, and scaling robust, reliable software systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Collaboration: Partner closely with stakeholders, including Product Managers, Engineering Managers, CxO leaders, and core engineering teams.
• Design & Delivery Ownership: Create optimal technical designs for distributed systems. Take ownership of end-to-end software delivery, guaranteeing alignment with approved designs and technology stacks.
• Documentation Excellence: Produce comprehensive system design documents, including logical designs with data flow, deployment architectures, High-Level Design (HLD), and Low-Level Design (LLD) addressing functional and non-functional requirements (security, scalability, performance, availability, reliability).
• AI/Gen AI Integration: Design and implement AI/Gen AI-based agentic technical solutions where appropriate.
• Operational & Incident Management: Provide critical L3/L4 engineering support, actively participate in production incident calls, triage incidents to achieve the shortest Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR), and develop quick recovery fixes and long-term preventive solutions.
• Mentorship & Growth: Act as a teacher, reviewer, and mentor, providing technical guidance to engineers, domain experts, and individual contributors.
• Driving AI-Enabled Practices: Establish and champion best practices for software development, leveraging AI across development, testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Technical Direction: Contribute to the organization’s overall technical vision, driving the adoption of best-in-class engineering practices, automation, and AI agentic solutions.

Required Qualifications & Skills (Must-Haves)

• Extensive Hands-On Experience: 15+ years of hands-on coding, HLD, and LLD creation. Proven track record managing diverse, complex systems (backend, frontend, caches, databases, messaging systems, middleware, and cloud).
• Architectural Experience: 6+ years as a hands-on Technical Architect.
• AI Specialization: At least 2 years specializing in AI Agentic solutions.
• Distributed Systems Mastery: 5+ years of experience designing and architecting distributed systems at internet or enterprise scale. Knowledge of frontend applications, micro-frontends, MVVM design patterns, and component architecture.
• Cloud Architecture: Strong expertise in building highly scalable and highly available software in cloud, on-premise, or hybrid environments using container and serverless technologies.
• Core Programming: Proven experience with microservices architecture and strong programming proficiency in Java/Spring Boot or Golang.
• Data Modeling: Strong hands-on experience selecting and designing data models for services (RDBMS and NoSQL: document, graph, or column stores).
• SDLC Fluency: Comprehensive understanding of all Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) phases: Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Deployment, and Post-Production Support.

Highly Desirable (Added Advantages)

• Experience in a product-based or hyper-growth environment.
• Experience with Frontend applications (Mobile, Web).
• Working knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
• Prior domain experience in Telecom BSS/OSS domains.
• Hands-on experience with Data and AI technologies.

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or an equivalent field.