Symphony Talent
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Technical Architect - Java, India
All About Us.
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At Symphony Talent, we're all about people—connecting, inspiring, and hiring them for jobs that transform their lives and our clients' organizations.
Our human approach, synergistic technology, and brand solutions deliver the outcomes you care about – from reach to retention – by coordinating talent leaders and their teams and enabling them to improve and advance continually.
Symphony Talent supports more than 900 clients worldwide, including the world’s leading brands. Its headquarters are in New York, London, Bangalore, and Belfast, with over 300 multinational employees.
All About The Role
As Technical Architect — Java, you will own the architecture for one or more product lines on Symphony Talent’s platform — designing solutions that meet rigorous non-functional requirements around scalability, security, reliability, and performance, while serving hundreds of enterprise clients globally.
This is a hands-on architect role with a 50/50 split between architecture and execution: you’ll spend half your time on architectural design, technical decision-making, and design reviews, and the other half on hands-on coding, prototyping, and unblocking the team. You’ll partner closely with product managers, engineering leaders, and customer-facing teams to translate business needs into technical solutions that scale.
A key part of this role is driving modernization and technical debt management — evolving legacy components toward modern architectures, retiring outdated patterns, and ensuring the platform remains future-ready. You’ll also mentor a team of senior and mid-level engineers, raise the technical bar across engineering, and shape the long-term technical roadmap.
About The Role
Architecture & Design
- Own the end-to-end architecture and technical roadmap across one or more product lines.
- Design solutions that meet rigorous NFRs — scalability, security, reliability, performance, observability, and cost efficiency.
- Define and evolve architectural patterns (event-driven, API-led, microservices, batch, streaming) and select the right approach for each business problem.
- Lead architectural reviews, document decisions through ADRs (Architecture Decision Records), and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
Hands-On Engineering
- Write production-quality code for critical components, prototypes, and proof-of-concepts.
- Conduct code and design reviews; set the bar for code quality, testing rigor, and engineering craftsmanship.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and partner with SRE/DevOps on incident response and root-cause analysis.
Modernization & Technical Debt Management
- Identify and prioritize technical debt across the platform; build and execute a modernization roadmap.
- Lead migration efforts from legacy frameworks and middleware to modern, cloud-native alternatives.
- Establish patterns for incremental modernization without disrupting customer-facing services.
Technical Leadership & Mentorship
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers on system design, architectural thinking, and engineering best practices.
- Drive adoption of best practices in DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, and observability across the team.
- Foster a culture of engineering excellence, continuous learning, and ownership.
Stakeholder Management & Strategy
- Partner with global product, engineering, and customer-facing leaders to align technical strategy with business goals.
- Translate business requirements into technical solutions and clearly communicate trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies (AI/ML, event streaming, service mesh) and bring insights back to inform the roadmap.
Requirements
Required Skills & Experience
Must-Have
Experience & Education
- 10+ years of overall software engineering experience, with 4+ years in a Technical Architect or equivalent role.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Proven track record of delivering high-performance, production-grade products at scale.
Core Technical Stack
- Deep expertise in Core Java (Java 11+), Spring / Spring Boot, and Hibernate / JPA.
- Hands-on experience designing and building RESTful APIs, microservices, and event-driven systems.
- Strong experience with Apache Camel or equivalent integration/messaging frameworks.
- Solid understanding of messaging and streaming systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, JMS, SQS).
Cloud & Infrastructure
- Production experience with AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, SQS/SNS, API Gateway, CloudWatch).
- Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration — Docker and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
Data & Search
- Strong experience with Elasticsearch / OpenSearch for search, indexing, and analytics use cases.
- Proficiency in RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle) and at least one NoSQL store (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB).
- Experience with database performance tuning, query optimization, and data modeling at scale.
Architecture & Engineering Practices
- Strong grasp of architectural patterns — microservices, event-driven, API-led, CQRS/event sourcing, and SOA.
- Experience designing for non-functional requirements: scalability, security, reliability, performance, and observability.
- Familiarity with API security and identity — OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, API gateways.
- Strong understanding of observability tooling — logs, metrics, traces (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry).
Leadership & Soft Skills
- Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring engineering teams of 8–15 engineers.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate technical trade-offs to both engineers and business stakeholders.
- Experience working in a global, distributed development environment across multiple time zones.
Good-to-Have
- Working knowledge of Python and / or Node.js for tooling, automation, or polyglot services.
- Exposure to AI/ML integration — LLM-based services, vector databases, RAG patterns, or ML model deployment.
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and API management platforms (Apigee, Kong).
- Familiarity with frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) for full-stack architectural context.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional) or equivalent cloud certifications.
- Contributions to open-source projects or technical writing / public speaking on engineering topics.
Preferred Background
- Experience at a B2B or B2C product / SaaS company delivering software at scale.
- Domain exposure to HR tech, recruitment marketing, marketing automation, or related digital domains is a plus.
What We’re Looking For
- Systems thinker — You can zoom out to see the big architectural picture and zoom in to debug a single line of code.
- Pragmatic decision-maker — You make sound trade-offs between speed, quality, cost, and complexity, and clearly communicate the reasoning.
- Strong sense of ownership — You take problems end-to-end, from design through production, and don’t pass them on at the first handoff.
- Comfortable with ambiguity — You can shape direction in fast-moving, evolving environments without waiting for perfect requirements.
- Clear communicator — You explain complex technical concepts simply to engineers, product, and business stakeholders alike.
- Curious and adaptive — You actively track industry trends and bring new ideas, tools, and patterns to the team.
- Collaborative leader — You lift the team up, give credit generously, and create space for engineers to grow.
Additional Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Hybrid work arrangement
- Comprehensive insurance coverage and benefits
- Open and inclusive work culture
- Annual preventive health checkup benefit
- Complimentary lunch on work-from-office days
- Monthly fun activities
This position is based in our Bangalore/Noida office (Hybrid working model).
Inspired by our people-led mission to advance the future of candidates and companies? Apply now, and let’s make an impact together at Symphony Talent.
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