Senior Architect

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

Job summary

Covalense Digital seeks a Senior Architect to lead the Csmart Platform in Bangalore. You will own the technical architecture, drive modernization, and align with product roadmaps to deliver scalable, secure enterprise solutions.

Lead PHP/Laravel and JS framework efforts, define REST/OAuth2 secure interfaces, and guide design across multi-tenant telecom domains. Expect high availability, observability, and strong governance in a cloud-first environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years software engineering/architecture experience.
• Enterprise application architecture proficiency.
• Hands-on PHP and Laravel expertise.
• Strong JS knowledge with modern framework experience.
• REST APIs, API gateways, OAuth2/OIDC.
• Database experience: MySQL/Oracle.
• Redis for caching & session management.
• RabbitMQ and Kafka messaging experience.
• Docker & Kubernetes for containerized apps.
• Cloud platforms: OCI, AWS, or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall technical architecture and evolution of the Csmart platform.
• Define architecture principles, standards, patterns, and technology direction.
• Design scalable, highly available, resilient, and secure enterprise applications.
• Drive modernization of legacy components toward cloud-native architecture.
• Ensure clear separation of business, domain, integration, and infrastructure concerns.
• Review and approve major architectural changes and designs.
• Translate business and product requirements into scalable architecture.
• Define reusable product capabilities for multiple customers with limited customization.
• Align architecture evolution with product roadmap and business goals.
• Define patterns that support configurability and extensibility.
• Drive TM Forum-aligned API and domain architecture where applicable.
• Identify opportunities for platform standardization and productization.

Skills

PHP & Laravel

JavaScript frameworks

REST APIs & OAuth2

MySQL & Oracle

Redis

RabbitMQ & Kafka

Docker & Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (OCI/AWS/Azure)

High availability & DR

Observability tools (OpenTelemetry/PR)

DevSecOps / CI/CD

Architectural documentation

Tools

Supervisor

Job description

Senior Architect Csmart Platform

Location- Bangalore

Key Responsibilities

• Own the overall technical architecture and evolution of the Csmart platform.


• Define architecture principles, standards, patterns, and technology direction.


• Design scalable, highly available, resilient, and secure enterprise applications.


• Drive modernization of legacy components and migration toward modern cloud-native architecture.


• Ensure clear separation of business, domain, integration, and infrastructure concerns.


• Review and approve major architectural changes and technical designs.

Product & Domain Architecture

• Understand Telecom/Satellite CRM, BSS, OSS, billing, provisioning, customer, product, order, asset, and service domains.


• Translate business and product requirements into scalable technical architecture.


• Define reusable and configurable product capabilities that support multiple customers while minimizing customer-specific customization.


• Align Csmart architecture evolution with the product roadmap and strategic business objectives.


• Define architecture patterns that support product configurability and extensibility without creating product forks.


• Drive TM Forum-aligned API and domain architecture where applicable.


• Identify opportunities for platform standardization and productization.

PHP & Laravel Architecture

• Provide strong technical leadership in PHP and Laravel.


• Define Laravel application architecture, service boundaries, reusable components, and coding standards.


• Guide teams on Laravel service containers, queues, jobs, events, caching, authentication, authorization, and application lifecycle.


• Review complex Laravel implementations and identify architectural, scalability, and maintainability risks.


• Establish standards for performance, security, testing, and code quality.


• Drive modernization and reduction of technical debt within the Laravel platform.

Integration Architecture

• Define integration patterns between Csmart and external systems such as:




• Billing platforms


• Provisioning systems


• ERP/enterprise systems


• Payment systems


• Identity platforms


• Data platforms


• External partner systems




• Establish standards for REST APIs, asynchronous integration, events, webhooks, batch interfaces, and data synchronization.


• Ensure integrations are secure, observable, resilient, and backward compatible.


• Define clear architectural boundaries between Csmart, iPaaS, and external systems, ensuring business capabilities remain within Csmart while integration and orchestration are handled by iPaaS.

Scalability & Performance

• Design for high-volume transactional workloads and large datasets.


• Identify application, database, caching, messaging, and infrastructure bottlenecks.


• Define performance engineering and capacity planning strategies.


• Drive database optimization, indexing, caching, connection management, and asynchronous processing.


• Design systems capable of supporting multiple customers and large-scale deployments.

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Define cloud and hybrid-cloud architecture.


• Work with Kubernetes, containers, load balancers, API gateways, caching, messaging, and cloud services.


• Define high availability, disaster recovery, backup, scalability, and resilience strategies.


• Establish infrastructure requirements for production deployments.

Security

• Embed security into application and platform architecture.


• Drive Zero Trust, IAM/RBAC, SSO, OAuth2/OIDC, API security, encryption, secrets management, and auditability.


• Review security architecture and threat models.


• Ensure compliance with enterprise security requirements.

Observability & Reliability

• Establish platform-wide observability standards.


• Drive implementation of metrics, logs, traces, alerts, dashboards, and health checks.


• Define SLI/SLO and reliability practices.


• Ensure production issues can be diagnosed across application, database, integration, and infrastructure layers.

Technical Leadership

• Mentor architects, technical leads, and senior engineers.


• Conduct architecture reviews and design walkthroughs.


• Establish engineering standards and reusable patterns.


• Support teams in resolving complex technical issues.


• Participate in customer architecture discussions and translate recurring customer requirements into reusable Csmart product capabilities.

Required Skills

• 12+ years of software engineering / architecture experience.


• Strong experience in enterprise application architecture.


• Strong hands-on experience with PHP and Laravel.


• Strong hands-on experience with JavaScript and at least one modern JavaScript framework such as React, Vue.js, Angular, or equivalent.


• Strong knowledge of REST APIs, API gateways, OAuth2/OIDC, and distributed systems.


• Strong database experience with MySQL and Oracle.


• Experience with Redis for caching, session management, distributed locking, and performance optimization.


• Experience with RabbitMQ and Kafka or equivalent messaging/event platforms.


• Experience with Supervisor for application and background-worker process management.


• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.


• Experience with cloud platforms such as OCI, AWS, or Azure.


• Strong understanding of high availability, scalability, resilience, and disaster recovery.


• Experience with observability technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Tempo/Jaeger.


• Strong understanding of DevSecOps and CI/CD.


• Experience designing secure enterprise platforms.


• Strong architectural documentation and communication skills.

Preferred Experience

• Telecom / Satellite / BSS / OSS / CRM experience.


• TM Forum standards and Open APIs.


• Multi-tenant SaaS platforms.


• Large-scale data migration.


• Legacy modernization.


• Cloud-native transformation.


• Event-driven architecture.


• AI/GenAI integration into enterprise platforms.


• Enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF.