Lead Technical Architect (MERN)

dentsu; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Merkle in Bengaluru is seeking a Senior Technical Architect to own end-to-end MERN platform architecture and lead multiple software teams across design, development, and production support.

You will mentor engineers, drive governance, and collaborate with Product, Delivery, Architecture, Security, and DevOps to deliver scalable, secure solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years software experience with 4+ years in technical/lead architect roles
• Proven experience leading small software teams and mentoring engineers
• Expert MERN stack knowledge and strong backend/frontend capabilities
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, REST/GraphQL, design patterns
• Hands-on cloud experience with public cloud platforms (Azure or others)
• CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, IaC and DevSecOps practices
• Kafka or equivalent event streaming platforms
• Deep understanding of SOLID, design patterns, TDD/BDD and automated testing
• Experience designing high-volume, highly available systems
• Strong communication, stakeholder mgmt and client-facing skills

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture for large-scale MERN platforms and digital products
• Mentor architects and engineering leads with regular 1:1s
• Provide technical leadership across workstreams with multiple teams
• Collaborate with product and delivery teams to translate business goals into roadmaps
• Drive scalability, security, resiliency, observability and performance
• Lead engineering teams through design, development, testing, deployment and production support
• Establish coding standards, architecture governance and reusable frameworks
• Present architecture recommendations to senior leadership and clients

Skills

Lead software teams

Experience as Tech Architect/Lead

MERN stack expert

Distributed systems/microservices

Cloud (Azure/others)

CI/CD/Docker/Kubernetes/DevSecOps

Kafka/event streaming

SOLID/design patterns/TDD/BDD

High-volume/HA systems

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

The purpose of this role is to create solution architectures for systems and platforms ensuring all relevant options are explored for time, cost and compliance to the company’s standards, policies and practices whilst meeting the business’ requirements. The role will oversee the work of other architects and delivery of the solution for clients both internal and external, shepherding it through the relevant governance.

Job Description

Reports to

Engineering Director

Team Management- Yes

Key Relationships

Product, Delivery, Architecture, Security, DevOps / SRE

Role Overview

• As the SME of MERN within the Dentsu ecosystem,you will manage and mentor software teams delivering a combination of applications and systems for use by end users

• You will be a strong advocate for the team and share practices, ideas and successes with other product delivery teams.

• You will provide technical leadership across workstream discussions, ensuring seamless collaboration where technical direction is required across multiple teams building applications over our platform.

• Working with Solution Architects and Developers, you will actively participate in brainstorming and solution design sessions to address the needs and technical challenges facing those teams. You will help drive the team to agreed outcomes and a technical way forward.

• Working with the Product team, you will be adept at solving business problems with software in the shortest sustainable lead-time and be able to explain technical solutions clearly and succinctly to business audiences and technical teams alike.

• Working with Architects and Engineering team, you will create the Technical Vision and Roadmap for the Platform Team, driving the focus on its objectives and progress against delivery.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring team composition and skills are adequate, line management of your team of Engineering Leads, who will look to you as a mentor to develop their skills for regular 1:1s and as a coach to guide them through the software development lifecycle.

• Work with the Engineering team to ensure the platform services are scalable, resilient, well documented and easy to consume and to maintain.

• Collaborate with other Technology functions (e.g. Architecture, DevOps, Security) across different geographies, timezones and cultures to deliver secure, reliable, robust, scalable code which can be built, tested and deployed into Production using automation and CI/CD pipelines and Agile delivery practices.

• Own end-to-end architecture for large-scale MERN platforms and digital products.

• Remain hands-on in architecture, coding, code reviews, troubleshooting, POCs and critical

• feature delivery (approximately 70% of role).

• Define target-state architecture, microservices patterns, API standards, event-driven

• architecture and cloud-native design principles.

• Drive technical decisions around scalability, security, resiliency, observability and performance.

• Lead engineering teams across design, development, testing, deployment and production

• support.

• Establish coding standards, design reviews, architecture governance and reusable frameworks.

• Mentor architects and senior engineers and build technical capability across teams.

• Collaborate with Product, Delivery, Business and Client stakeholders to translate business

• goals into technical roadmaps.

• Manage technical risks, dependencies, estimations and executive communications.

• Present architecture recommendations to senior leadership and clients

Must Have Skills

• Proven experience managing small software teams and mentoring engineers in enterprise web development and services development using loosely coupled systems.

• 12+ years overall experience with 4+ years in Technical Architect or Lead Architect roles.

• Expert MERN stack knowledge: MongoDB, Mongoose, Express.js, React.js, Node.js and TypeScript.

• Strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices, REST APIs and GraphQL.

• Hands-on experience with Azure or other public cloud platforms.

• CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps practices.

• Kafka or equivalent event streaming platforms.

• Deep understanding of SOLID principles, design patterns, TDD/BDD and automated testing.

• Experience designing high-volume, highly available systems.

• Strong communication, stakeholder management and client-facing skills.

Desirable

• Working knowledge of API gateways (Kong or equivalent), ABAC solutions (Symphonic or equivalent), CMS platforms (Strapi or equivalent)

• Working on Developer Portals or documentation relating to shared development services

• Experience of Docker and/or Kubernetes an advantage.

• Working knowledge of DataBricks/Spark (using Python and associated frameworks)

• Working knowledge of Azure Data Lake and Azure Blob storage

Location

Bengaluru

Brand

Merkle

Time Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent