Principal Software Architect

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Responsibilities: Architecture & SDLC Assurance: Review and approve architectural designs for major features and systems before development begins. Create and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) documenting important technical decisions and trade-offs. Establish and enforce engineering quality gates across the software development lifecycle. Review technical designs for scalability, security, maintainability, reliability, and alignment with enterprise standards. Ensure architectural decisions can be traced through implementation, testing, and deployment. Quality, Testing & Production Readiness: Define minimum testing and code-quality standards across mobile, web, and backend applications. Review test strategies for major features and ensure critical functionality is adequately tested. Establish production-readiness requirements covering deployment automation, monitoring, security scanning, load testing, rollback procedures, and incident response. Review CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes configurations, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment processes. Facilitate post-incident reviews and identify systemic technical or architectural problems. Reliability, Observability & Scalability: Establish observability standards covering structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, monitoring, and alerting. Define and review Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and production performance targets. Lead or review load and performance testing for critical backend services. Identify scalability bottlenecks across databases, caching, infrastructure, networking, and application services. Review database designs, migrations, indexing, caching strategies, and performance considerations. Security & API Governance: Establish engineering security gates covering dependency scanning, SAST, container scanning, authentication, authorization, encryption, and API security. Participate in security design reviews for new systems. Ensure critical security findings are addressed

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