Senior Software Architect - Scale High-Volume Systems

JobDiva, Inc.; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA seeks a Senior Software Architect to lead the design and evolution of mission-critical, high-scale distributed platforms in Charlotte, NC. The role emphasizes API development, MongoDB, Python, and Java, with a strong track record of building systems that process millions of transactions daily.

The ideal candidate will define technical direction, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with product, security, and platform teams to ensure reliability, security, and scalable

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with architecture leadership.
• 8+ years delivering large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep API design and service architecture experience.
• Hands-on Python and Java development.
• MongoDB data modeling, indexing, and replication.
• Cloud-native architectures, containers, CI/CD, and production ops.
• Strong monitoring, observability, and incident management.
• Experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders and leading design reviews.

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable, highly available, and resilient distributed systems supporting high transaction volumes and mission-critical workloads.
• Define end-to-end system architecture across APIs, services, data stores, asynchronous processing, caching, observability, and infrastructure.
• Design and govern enterprise-grade API platforms, including RESTful and/or event-driven APIs, API security, versioning, rate limiting, error handling, and backward compatibility.
• Lead architecture decisions for services built primarily in Python and Java, ensuring performance, maintainability, operational readiness, and secure coding practices.
• Design, optimize, and govern large-scale MongoDB deployments, including data modeling, indexing, sharding, replication, consistency, backup/recovery, and capacity planning.
• Establish reliability and resiliency patterns, including fault isolation, retries, idempotency, circuit breakers, graceful degradation, and disaster recovery.
• Drive performance engineering, including load testing, bottleneck analysis, query optimization, API latency reduction, and scalability planning.
• Define observability standards across logging, metrics, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, SLOs, SLIs, and incident response.
• Partner with DevOps/SRE teams to improve production readiness, deployment automation, infrastructure reliability, and operational maturity.
• Conduct architecture reviews, establish technical standards, and mentor senior engineers and technical leads.
• Translate business and non-functional requirements into clear technical designs, roadmaps, trade-offs, and implementation plans.
• Lead root-cause analysis for critical production incidents and drive permanent corrective actions.

Skills

Software architecture

Technical leadership

API design

Distributed systems

Python

Java

MongoDB

Cloud-native

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

Redis

Job description

NTT DATA seeks a Senior Software Architect to lead the design and evolution of mission-critical, high-scale distributed platforms in Charlotte, NC. The role emphasizes API development, MongoDB, Python, and Java, with a strong track record of building systems that process millions of transactions daily.

The ideal candidate will define technical direction, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with product, security, and platform teams to ensure reliability, security, and scalable