Principal Software Architect & Tech Leader

IDEMIA; Manila; On-site; PHP 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

IDEMIA is a global leader in identity technologies, focusing on biometrics and cryptography to enable secure, scalable solutions. The role drives requirements into software, maximizing business value and customer satisfaction in a fast-evolving environment.

The successful candidate will lead architecture discussions, deliver large software modules, and mentor a team of developers while upholding secure coding and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 8 years of hands-on software development experience, including complex business applications.
• Proven experience serving as a technical lead, senior developer, or lead engineer.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, design patterns, system integrations, and modern development practices.
• Excellent problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and optimize software solutions using programming, scripting, and database technologies to meet business and technical requirements.
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable software architectures, reusable components, design patterns, and frameworks that support long-term product development needs.
• Apply software engineering best practices including secure coding, code reviews, source control management, testing, CI/CD, and operational excellence.
• Contribute to requirements analysis, technical assessments, effort estimations, and solution design while providing expert recommendations to stakeholders.
• Deliver large and complex software modules within agreed quality, timeline, and budget objectives, while supporting deployment, maintenance, and continuous enhancements.
• Drive technical governance through architecture reviews, performance optimization, technology evaluations, and promotion of engineering standards across the team.
• Act as a technical leader and mentor for developers, providing guidance, fostering knowledge sharing, influencing technical decisions, and championing innovative solutions to business challenges.

Skills

Technical lead

Mentoring

Communication

Problem solving

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor in CS/SE

Job description

IDEMIA is a global leader in identity technologies, focusing on biometrics and cryptography to enable secure, scalable solutions. The role drives requirements into software, maximizing business value and customer satisfaction in a fast-evolving environment.

The successful candidate will lead architecture discussions, deliver large software modules, and mentor a team of developers while upholding secure coding and CI/CD practices.