What You'll Be Doing
Architectural Leadership: Define and evolve application architecture in line with business and product strategy for a global retail media SaaS platform.
Set Guardrails: Establish repeatable patterns for microservices, APIs, identity/auth, observability, and data flows.
NFR Ownership: Ensure non-functional requirements (scalability, reliability, resiliency, observability, security, maintainability) are embedded into design decision.
Cross-Squad Influence: Collaborate with multiple squads (frontend, backend, BFF, platform services) to align on architectural choices.
Tech Evaluations: Lead structured assessments of new tools and frameworks (e.g., OPA, SpiceDB, caching, API gateways) and guide adoption.
Decision Frameworks: Move teams away from ad-hoc debates by creating clear frameworks for architectural decision-making.
Mentorship: Partner with engineering managers and lead engineers to strengthen design-level thinking and technical maturity.
What We’re Looking For
Strong hands-on expertise across modern application architecture
.NET Core, C#, REST APIs, microservices.
Event-driven architectures (Pub/Sub, Kafka, or similar).
Databases (Postgres, SQL Server, caching strategies with Redis or Couchbase).
Identity & authorization frameworks (Auth0, OPA, SpiceDB, OpenFGA).
Observability platforms (New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana).
Cloud-native experience (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure acceptable).
An understanding of AI-enabled application patterns and workflow orchestration frameworks.
Awareness of emerging AI and agentic workflow technologies and their application across retail media, advertising, analytics, and SaaS platforms, with the ability to assess their architectural implications and business value
Strong track record of embedding NFRs into platform and product design.
Excellent communicators can simplify trade-offs for both engineers and business stakeholders.
Experience influencing without authority and driving closure across multiple teams.
You'll Thrive If You...
Enjoy solving complex technical and organisational challenges.
Can balance long-term architectural vision with practical delivery needs.
Build strong partnerships across engineering, product, and business teams.
Take ownership and drive continual improvement in technology standards and practices.
India Benefits
Comprehensive medical insurance of INR 500,000 covering employees and eligible dependents, with dental and vision benefits included.
Group Term Life Insurance and Group Personal Accident cover, with coverage levels linked to employee grade.
Retirement benefits including Provident Fund, Gratuity, and voluntary National Pension Scheme (NPS).
Employee Assistance Programme, Indian Health Organisation (IHO) membership, and wellbeing resources through the Wellness Hub.
Internet allowance, office commute support, work-from-home kit, subsidised meals, and Early Friday each month.
25 days annual leave plus 10 public holidays, birthday leave, maternity, paternity and adoption leave provisions.
Our approach to Flexible Working
At dunnhumby, we value and respect difference and are committed to building an inclusive culture by creating an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will do your best at work if you have a work / life balance. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, so if this is important to you please raise this with your recruiter, as we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process. For further information about how we collect and use your personal information please see our Privacy Notice which can be found(here)
