Job description

Job Role: Sr. Software Architect 

Experience: 7+ Years 

Location: Pune (Hybrid)

About the Role

As a Sr. Software Architect, you will serve as the technical bridge between the organization’s existing platform architecture and a complementary technology stack, ensuring architectural coherence as both systems converge. Reporting to the Architecture Leader, you will be part of the Architecture team’s strategic initiatives while being based in India, translating strategic business priorities into actionable technical execution for local engineering teams.

This role requires a business-first strategic mindset combined with hands-on technical leadership. You will not just make technical decisions—you will articulate how those decisions drive business outcomes, create customer value, and improve product metrics.You will drive the architectural strategy for migrating and integrating capabilities into a unified platform, while leading through influence across cross-functional stakeholders, engineering teams, and global geographies. 

What you’ll do

 • Drive Business Impact: Map company strategic priorities directly to architectural decisions, ensuring that tech debt, migration paths, and platform design are anchored in customer value and tangible business outcomes.

• Lead Through Influence: Collaborate with, align, and influence cross-functional teams, product leaders, and stakeholders across both North America and India without relying on direct positional authority.

• Define Architecture Strategy: Develop and maintain a deep working knowledge of both the Q4 Platform and Virtua technical stacks to define clear technical migration and integration strategies (identifying what to migrate, sunset, or re-architect).

• Cross-Geographic Alignment: Participate in architecture reviews, representing local capabilities/constraints while ensuring India teams are fully aligned with broader corporate goals.

• Technical Mentorship & Capability Building: Mentor and elevate senior developers and tech leads in India, instilling strong architectural standards and enabling autonomous, value-driven execution.

• Documentation & Governance: Maintain, optimize, and document architecture processes and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) to ensure transparent communication across all stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience developing commercial software products within product-based companies (SaaS / Product environment experience preferred over consulting/services).

• 3+ years in a dedicated architecture, principal engineer, or high-influence technical leadership role.

• Proven track record of leading through influence across cross-functional partners and multiregion engineering organizations.

• Demonstrated ability to frame architectural choices around business impact, revenue enablement, and customer outcomes.

• Direct experience leading multi-system integrations or platform migrations.

Technical Stack & Skills

• Strong proficiency in MERN stack, Python or .NET platforms. o Note: Candidates with another tech stack such as Java are welcome, provided you have strong, hands-on experience in AWS.

• Hands-on experience designing microservices, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and API integrations.

• Experience navigating the transition between legacy monolithic structures and modern cloudnative environments.

• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences.