Product/Platform Architect

Nest Digital; Ernakulam, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Nest Digital seeks an experienced Enterprise Architect to own and evolve our product/platform architecture, aligning with roadmaps, SLOs, security, and cost targets. You will define reference architectures, guardrails, and governance while driving Kubernetes, IaC, and security-by-design across teams.

Key focus areas include DDD/CQRS, event-driven data with Kafka, and scalable observability. Strong collaboration with product, security, platform, and delivery is essential.

Qualifications

• Define reference architecture and guardrails; maintain

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve product/platform architecture to meet roadmap, SLOs, security, and cost targets.
• Define reference architecture, guardrails, golden paths; maintain
• Apply DDD, CQRS/Saga, and eventdriven patterns (Kafka) with polyglot persistence
• Drive container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes: ingress, HPA, rollout/rollback) and IaC (Terraform/Bicep)
• Embed securitybydesign (STRIDE, secrets mgmt, zerotrust) and observability (SLOs, error budgets, tracing/logging/metrics)
• Chair/participate in architecture review councils; ensure standards compliance and gated releases
• Maintain external market sense; align product choices to customer needs and roadmap
• Support strategic customer conversations on platform direction and extensibility
• Deep .NET or Java with adjacent stacks; Azure/AWS managed services
• Eventing & data: Kafka (partitions, consumer groups, retention), schema evolution, consistency models
• DevSecOps and productiongrade observability; performance/cost optimization
• Stakeholder influence across product, security, platform, and delivery; clear decision facilitation.

Skills

Deep .NET or Java

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

Event-driven architecture

DevSecOps

Observability and cost optimization

Stakeholder influence

Tools

Kafka

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Bicep

Azure/AWS managed services

Job description

Job Purpose

• Own and evolve product/platform architecture to meet roadmap,SLOs, security, and cost targets; provide architecture governance

Responsibilities Internal

• Define reference architecture, guardrails, golden paths; maintain


• C4/UML and ADRs


• Apply DDD, CQRS/Saga, and eventdriven patterns (Kafka) with polyglot persistence


• Drive container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes: ingress, HPA, rollout/rollback) and IaC (Terraform/Bicep)


• Embed securitybydesign (STRIDE, secrets mgmt, zerotrust) and observability (SLOs, error budgets, tracing/logging/metrics)


• Chair/participate in architecture review councils; ensure standards compliance and gated releases

Responsibilities Customer/Market

• Maintain external market sense; align product choices to customer needs and roadmap


• Support strategic customer conversations on platform direction and extensibility

Functional/Technical Competencies

• Deep .NET or Java with adjacent stacks; Azure/AWS managed services


• Eventing & data: Kafka (partitions, consumer groups, retention), schema evolution, consistency models


• DevSecOps and productiongrade observability; performance/cost optimization

Soft Skills

• Stakeholder influence across product, security, platform, and delivery; clear decision facilitation.

Min Relevant Experience

• 1218 years overall with 35 years leading product/platform architecture; shipped at scale.

Key Performance Indicators (examples)

• Architecture compliance 90% and ADR cadence/SLAs met


• SLO attainment; cost within guardrails


• Adoption of reusable assets/patterns across teamsRole & responsibilities