Location: Noida, India
Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.
Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and has operational offices and sites spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune among others. Over 1800 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India’s growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Transport, Aerospace and Digital Identity and Security markets.
Position Summary
As Sr-Architect/Architect, you will be responsible for designing and managing architecture, infrastructure, and services. You will also provide
technical vision and leadership to your teams. You will mentor and coach them to achieve their full potential. You will foster a culture of agility, excellence, collaboration customer focus and ensure that your teams deliver products that meet highest standards of quality, performance, security, and usability. You will be accountable for the end-to-end delivery of your products from ideation to deployment and ensure that they align with the overall business goals and customer needs. You will also be a key partner for the product management team to help shape the product strategy and roadmap based on market trends and customer inputs.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of our products, do necessary research, make design decisions, contribute to implementation and review.
- Ability to formulate software designs from specifications and to maintain an entire project/product.
- Create blueprints and high-level architectural plans for new systems, enhancements, and integrations.
- Collaborate well in a team environment, sensitive to needs of the teams, and effectively develop relationships across disciplines.
- Have the mindset to challenge and be challenged to build a robust and future ready solution.
- Keep up-to-date and flexible with technologies and have a strong control on quality, security and completeness of the product deliveries.
- Provide technical leadership to engineering and development teams, ensuring alignment with architecture standards and practices.
- Mentor and build a solid technical team in open and challenging environment.
- Foster innovation in software and technology product development. Coordinate research activities with other departments/functions Able to help technically team in debugging and reviews
Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or, Master’s degree in computer science or, related discipline
- 15+ years of total experience, with 5+ years of experience in designing systems.
- Experience in Java backend development.
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes, microservices, and API design.
- Expertise in cloud infrastructure and cloud services with any cloud service provider among AWS/GCP/Azure.
- Deep understanding of system design, architecture frameworks, and integration of various technologies to meet business requirements.
- Rich experience in designing and developing high performing, scalable, and enterprise grade systems with micro services, containers, RESTful APIs.
- Expert in System programming and Distributed systems.
- Experience in multiple areas of software technology including SDK development, system software development and client-server application development.
- Good Knowledge of security frameworks, concepts and technologies.
- Understanding of database fundamentals, working experience on mySQL, PostgreSQL will be added advantage.
- Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving skills.
- Excellent speaking, writing and presentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with airport/identity systems is a plus.
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