Principal Architect

We are seeking an experienced Principal Architect with a strong background in software design and architecture in Microsoft Technology stack - .Net, C#, VB, ASP.Net Core/MVC or Blazor. MS-SQL and Azure. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 18 years of overall experience in the software industry, including at least 8 years in enterprise-level software design and architecture.

The role:

• Accountable as the technical owner to multiple stakeholders: our customers, program management team, software engineering teams and quality engineering teams for the architectural transformation and application modernisation of large legacy software systems.
• Accountable for defining and optimising legacy application modernisation and architecture transformation strategy, including the definition of end-to-end to-be system architecture and solution designs.
• Advisor to Quality Engineering Lead / Test architect to validate the As-Is and To-Be outcomes
• Lead requirements gathering, design end-to-end software solutions, and document functional, technical, and deployment architectures.
• Help Program management, software engineering and quality assurance teams in planning and continuously optimising high-level program increment plans across various workstreams.
• Provide and optimise high-level estimations with a work breakdown structure for each engineering workstream.
• Guide the technical team and program management teams to create and optimise a prioritised backlog of work items across engineering work streams.
• Closely support the development teams throughout the program execution to gain a deep understanding of customer expectations in terms of business priorities, architecture principles, design principles, coding guidelines, and quality assurance strategy, ensuring that this insight is relayed back to the Version 1 team.
• Review low-level design and code that are of high importance or against the critical path.
• Help resolve critical design and technical issues.
• Lead cross component / cross team defect triages.
• Drive non-functional requirements, design and architectural concerns related to security, performance, scalability, observability, and user experience.
• Be part of Program Change Control Board to prioritise and approve change requests and deployments.
• Guide development teams to conduct successful customer demos.
• Review technical / functional documentations as needed.
• Set direction for system testing and review test strategies and cases.