Design the Security & Observability Framework
Technical Leadership
Lead discovery and capture existing integration contracts from live traffic
Set engineering standards and review all code, including AI-generated code
Guide developers, DevOps and QA on design, testability and performance
Establish AI-assisted application-building workflows using AI approved
Stakeholder & Delivery
Present options and recommendations to the client's architecture and platform teams
Coordinate the ecommerce, middleware and email provider teams through integration and SIT
Own cutover planning, go/no-go criteria and early-life support
Security & Compliance
Ensure OAuth2 machine-to-machine authentication, encryption, least-privilege IAM and PII masking
Align audit retention and the data purge approach with GDPR/CCPA requirements
Required Skills & Competencies
Strong solution architecture experience on AWS: API Gateway, ECS/Fargate, SQS, EventBridge, Secrets Manager, IAM and KMS
Configuration management using AppConfig or DynamoDB; observability with CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry/ADOT or X-Ray; CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code design.
Proven design of API gateways or enterprise integration layers for high-volume transactional systems
Hands-on with Node.js/TypeScript or Java/Spring Boot microservices
Strong grasp of resilience patterns, idempotency and event-driven design
OpenAPI-first design and contract testing practices
Excellent stakeholder communication and technical leadership
Good-to-Have
Exposure to email service provider platforms; retail transactional email, ESB/middleware platforms
Fastify; Akamai WAF; Terraform or AWS CDK; OpenSearch/ELK-based operational search.
AWS Solutions Architect – Professional certification
Qualifications
12+ years of relevant software engineering experience with solution architecture and hands-on technical leadership.
B.E./B.Tech/MCA or equivalent
AWS architecture certification is desirable.