Technical Architect

ParentPay Group; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

ParentPay Group, a Europe-based education technology company, seeks a Technical Architect for its Pune hub. You will shape software architecture, lead multi-disciplinary teams, and drive cloud-first initiatives across UI, backend, DB, CI/CD, and IaC.

The role requires strong hands-on leadership and pragmatic decision-making within an Agile environment. You will collaborate with senior leadership to ensure architectural governance, promote best practices (DDD, TDD), and mentor engineers to

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with .NET Core, React, SQL and Azure.
• Experience applying architectural patterns and cloud infra practices (DDD, TDD).
• Ability to provide hands-on technical leadership and governance.
• Proven ability to guide teams through architectural decisions and trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Drive outcomes with a focus on results and delivery of objectives.
• Lead planning through action, remove blockers, and ensure timely delivery.
• Own decisions, defend trade-offs, and maintain accountability.
• Promote continuous improvement, learning, and pair programming.
• Apply evolutionary architecture and pragmatic trade-offs for today and tomorrow.
• Fulfill full stack scope from UI to cloud infrastructure and IaC.
• Mentor teams and lead by example to ensure success across streams.
• Collaborate with executives and architects to steer technical decisions.

Skills

.NET Core

React

SQL

Azure

DDD

TDD

Blue/Green Deployments

Technical Leadership

Architectural Governance

Mentoring

Job description

Technical Architect

Department: Development

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Pune, India

Reporting To: Mayura Khamitkar

Description

ParentPay Group is Europe’s leading software product company and the UK’s largest education technology business. We are on a mission to bring next-generation innovation to positively impact on the lives of millions of parents, teachers, and students every day in over 49 countries.

Our market leading products use cutting edge cloud-based technology to streamline school processes, including secure web and mobile apps that enable secure online payments for school items such as meals, trips, clubs and uniform, improve parental engagement, simplify meal management and - through our product SIMS - collect and manage a database of student information and core school operations.

ParentPay Group’s new offices in Pune are a fantastic tech hub for those looking to boost their careers in software product development.

Our bright team FastTrack their career with international exposure and ways of working based on agile development best practices from globally renowned technology consultancies.

Key Responsibilities

• Driving outcomes: focuses on results and desired outcomes and how best to achieve them.
• Able to execute plans through to action. Persistent to complete tasks and a strong commitment to take action that moves things along to ensure delivery of objectives.
• Ownership & accountability: takes personal accountability and ownership for their work. This includes personal follow through, making and defending difficult decisions and trade‑offs, removing blockers, driving collective progress.
• Continuous Improvement: advances by ongoing, incremental improvement through continuous learning, pair-programming, questioning the status quo and trying out creative and novel ideas. Shows curiosity and has a keen interest to drive learning for themselves and others.
• Pragmatic in approach, understanding that software and its architecture are fundamentally about trade‑offs. What works today may not work tomorrow, evolutionary architecture is the goal.
• Truly full stack, from UI, Backend, DB, CI/CD to cloud infrastructure and IaC.
• Ability to work in a team of very experienced individuals, understands that egos are not productive, ability to listen and provide objective feedback.
• A lot more focus should be on leading by example and mentoring across all the teams to ensure that the team are successful within their remit.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Hands on experience of .NET Core, React, SQL and Azure.
• Experience with leading industry standard practices for software development and cloud infra such as DDD, TDD and deployment patterns (blue/green).
• Provide hands on technical leadership to the teams, resolve tech queries, ensure that the teams follow architectural principles/guidelines overall tech standards.
• Evaluate and improve the common platform components to help accelerate the programme.
• Actively participate in architectural governance forums such as centre of excellence (CoE) and technical guilds. Furthermore, ensure that decisions made are followed through within the teams.
• Work collaboratively with the Group Director of Technology, Head of Technology and fellow architects to influence and steer technical leads as well as their teams towards pragmatic decisions as well as communicate team progress.
• Undertake R&D, prototype new approaches, technologies, techniques and ensure knowledge sharing to streams.