Solution Architect

Tkxel; Lahore; On-site; PKR 3,600,000 - 7,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tkxel is a leading software development company with a global footprint. We seek a Solution Architect to provide hands-on architectural leadership and mentoring to our architecture and engineering teams, ensuring delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions.

The role requires deep expertise in scalable web apps, microservices, RESTful APIs and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure). You will guide technical strategy, collaborate across functions, and drive architectural excellence across projects.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software development, design and delivery of medium to large projects.
• 5+ years in an architect role on large-scale software development projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to the development teams.
• Build early prototypes of product components and validate technical design and performance.
• Define and translate business objectives into scalable technical strategies.
• Adjust architecture in response to evolving requirements and market conditions.
• Collaborate with product, development, QA and DevOps to deliver robust solutions.
• Translate architecture into concrete design with development teams.
• Participate actively in the development process as needed.
• Align IT needs with enterprise strategy and standards.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Leadership

Team Collaboration

RESTful APIs

Cloud Computing

Tools

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Redis

Elasticsearch

SQL Server

MongoDB

SQS

Job description

Tkxel is a leading softwaredevelopment company located in Reston, Virginia. We are committedto develop innovative software solutions for leading enterprisesin the world, helping them grow their businesses using latesttechnology solutions.

Job Description

The role is to provide hands-on architecture leadership, guidance and mentoring to our architecture and engineering teams, be a close collaborator, and ensure the delivery of high-quality, robust, and scalable solutions. Solution Architect will be a thought-leader, with real-world business common sense, and the ability to collaborate across functions. He should have a strong understanding of scalable web applications with large user base, Microservices Architecture, Backend RESTful APIs, SQL, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis and analytics. The Solution Architect leads the development team to solve complex problems and resolve technological disagreements with informed solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to the development teams
• Build early prototypes of product components and validate them for technical design and performance
• Understand the long-term business objectives and suggest technical strategies to meet those objectives by introducing innovation through technology
• Be responsive and decisive on adjusting our product architecture as customer requirements, market conditions and technologies evolve
• Partner with others inside and outside the engineering organization to gather all requirements to formulate the appropriate architecture required to provide system functionality, deciding when to advocate, and when to compromise, to arrive at a mutually acceptable solution
• Work with the development team to translate the software architecture into design
• Actively participate in the development process, as needed
• Work closely with product management, development, quality assurance, and devops teams
• Align IT needs with the strategic direction of the enterprise.
• Implement standards, reference architectures, Technology selection
• Analyze gaps in technology architecture and translate them into opportunities.
• Define technology architecture principles to provide guidance to the technology architecture.
• Research and identify current and future technology services and industry standards and technology architecture viewpoints to address stakeholders' concerns.
• Select and use tools and repositories to collect and manage architecture information and artefacts

Requirements

• 10 Years of Experience in hands-on Software Development, application design and delivery of medium to large scale projects.
• 5+ Years of Experience in an Architect Role in large scale software development projects
• Proficient with scalable software design and architecture
• Excellent knowledge of Software Development methodologies and processes
• Experience of designing solutions based on Amazon Web Services Cloud
• Working knowledge of Azure cloud.
• Exposure to Version Control Systems and CICD Pipeline
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes, docker and DevOps fundamentals.
• Thorough understanding of relational database designs in SQL Server and good understanding of NoSQL Databases in MongoDB
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in designing architectures using Redis, ElasticSearch, SQS