Lead Specialist, Technical Architect

Jobtailor

Chennai District

On-site

INR 4,000,000 - 7,500,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a hands-on Technical Architect to lead Azure-based integration solutions. You will own the architecture end-to-end, mentor engineers, and drive production readiness and platform evolution across teams.

You will design event-driven patterns, govern API contracts, and ensure reliability with CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions, Jenkins or Azure DevOps, and Terraform. Strong communication and problem-solving are essential.

Qualifications

Hands-on Technical Architect/Integration Architect with production-grade cloud integration experience.
Strong grasp of synchronous APIs, asynchronous messaging and event-driven integration.

Responsibilities

Take ownership of Azure-based integration architecture end-to-end.
Lead engineers and partners through design, development, testing, deployment and platform evolution.
Define and govern integration patterns, API contracts, event schemas, and data contracts.

Skills

Azure integration

API management

Event-driven patterns

CI/CD automation

C#/.NET development

Azure Service Bus

Terraform

Java

Azure security

Tools

Git

GitHub

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Azure SQL Managed Instance

Job description

Take technical ownership of the architecture, design, implementation and production readiness of Azure Technical Hub integration solutions
Lead engineers and delivery partners through detailed design, development, testing, deployment, production readiness and ongoing platform evolution
Design and implement Azure-based integration solutions using API, event-driven and asynchronous messaging patterns
Define and govern integration patterns, API contracts and standards, event schemas, message contracts, CDC and event publishing patterns
Act as senior hands-on technical authority, making implementation decisions, resolving complex issues, reviewing code and mentoring engineers
Define and govern standards for retries, dead-letter handling, replay, idempotency, observability and operational resilience
Provide architectural oversight and review integration designs across internal teams and suppliers
Drive technical excellence, performance, scalability and engineering quality
Own CI/CD and deployment automation using Git/GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or Azure DevOps, and Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code
Support releases, environment configuration, platform upgrades and troubleshooting of deployment, networking and security issues
Work closely with Data Architects to implement enterprise data models consistently

Requirements

Proven experience as a hands-on Technical Architect, Integration Architect, Lead Integration Engineer or similar technical leadership role, with demonstrable experience architecting, designing, building and taking enterprise cloud integration solutions into production
Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns across synchronous APIs, asynchronous messaging and event-driven integration
Strong software engineering background with recent hands-on experience developing enterprise integration solutions using C#/.NET and Azure integration services; strong Java experience may also be considered with substantial hands-on Azure integration experience
Strong experience with Azure API Management, including API security, policies, versioning, routing and operational considerations
Strong hands-on experience with Azure Service Bus, including topics, subscriptions, sessions, message settlement, duplicate detection and dead-letter handling
Practical experience with Azure Functions, Azure SQL Managed Instance and related Azure integration services
Strong experience designing event-driven integration solutions, including event schemas, message contracts, CDC, Outbox patterns, event publishing and resilient messaging
Practical experience with CDC-based integration, checkpointing, batching, replay and recovery
Strong understanding of distributed systems and asynchronous messaging patterns, including message ordering, delivery guarantees, eventual consistency, retries, dead-letter queues, replay, checkpointing, idempotency, duplicate processing, failure recovery, observability and operational resilience
Experience designing, performance-testing and tuning high-volume integration workloads
Strong practical experience with CI/CD, Git/GitHub and automated deployment pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps
Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or equivalent technologies
Good understanding of Azure networking, security and identity, including Managed Identity, Entra ID, RBAC, secrets management and secure service-to-service communication
Demonstrable recent hands-on engineering experience with production code and complex enterprise integration solutions
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Highly desirable: experience with shared integration platforms, AI-assisted development tools, Azure and AWS integration services, large-scale cloud transformation programmes and highly regulated enterprise environments

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in architecting and implementing Azure-based integration solutions, with a strong focus on API management, event-driven patterns, and CI/CD automation. Proven ability to lead technical teams, govern integration standards, and ensure operational resilience in complex enterprise environments.

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