AYAN InfoTech is looking for Technical Architect to join an exciting project based in Melbourne. The role offers you the opportunity to contribute towards an extremely well structured and mature environment, working on sophisticated enhancement projects.
Role: Technical Architect
Location: Melbourne
Contract Duration: 6 Months with high possible extensions
Experience: 7+ Years
Role Overview:
We are seeking a Technical Architect with strong experience in new systems design, microservices and cloud-native architecture, and the ability to lead architecture discussions with client stakeholders. This role blends hands-on technical depth with solution leadership actively participating in solutioning driving end-to-end architecture from discovery and high-level design through delivery governance, ensuring scalable, secure, and maintainable systems.
Key Responsibilities:
* Architecture & System Design: Own end-to-end solution architecture for new systems and major enhancements, producing HLD/LLD, target-state architectures, and decision records.
* Client Stakeholder Engagement: Lead architecture workshops and technical deep-dives with client stakeholders, translate business goals into technical options, and clearly communicate trade-offs, risks, and recommendations.
* Solutioning: Participate in solutioning and discovery with client/business stakeholders to develop solution options, define scope and assumptions, provide high-level effort estimates, identify risks and dependencies, and contribute to solution proposals and stakeholder presentations.
* Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs): Define and validate NFRs (performance, availability, security, scalability, resiliency, observability) and ensure they are implemented and tested.
* Integration & API Strategy: Design APIs and integration patterns (REST, async messaging, event-driven) including versioning, contracts, and governance across services and teams.
* Cloud Architecture: Architect and guide deployments on AWS (or equivalent), covering networking, identity and access, data services, cost considerations, and infrastructure-as-code.
* Security & Compliance: Establish security architecture (authentication/authorization, secrets management, encryption, secure API design) and align solutions with relevant compliance and data protection needs.
* Architecture Governance & Technical Leadership: Provide technical direction to delivery teams, review designs and code for architectural alignment, mentor engineers, and ensure best practices and standards are followed.
* AI-Assisted Implementation: Leverage AI coding assistants (e.g., Cursor AI) to accelerate implementation and prototyping, while enforcing engineering rigor through design reviews, secure coding practices, code review, and automated testing.
* Delivery Collaboration: Partner with Product Owners, Engineering leads, and Program/Delivery Managers to align architecture with scope, milestones, and business outcomes, and proactively manage architectural risks and dependencies.
Required Technical Skills:
* Minimum: 15+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in an architecture/technical leadership role driving system design decisions.
* Preferred: Proven track record leading client-facing architecture discussions and delivering cloud-native solutions at enterprise scale (new builds and/or modernization programs).
* Architecture: Strong experience producing HLD/LLD, defining reference architectures, applying design patterns, and making trade-offs across performance, cost, and maintainability.
* Microservices & Distributed Systems: Hands-on experience designing scalable distributed systems (service boundaries, data ownership, resiliency, service discovery, distributed tracing) and guiding teams on implementation.
* Application Development: Strong depth in backend engineering (e.g., Java/Spring Boot) and familiarity with modern UI frameworks (e.g., React) to make sound architecture decisions and review implementations.
* Cloud: Architecture and hands-on knowledge of AWS (or equivalent) covering compute, storage, databases, networking, IAM, and well-architected best practices (reliability, security, cost, performance).
* DevOps & Platform Practices: CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation), with an ability to define deployment strategies and environment standards.
* AI Development Tools: Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Cursor AI, GitHub Copilot) including prompt discipline, validation of generated code, and adherence to security, privacy, and compliance standards.
* Data & Integration: Strong knowledge of SQL/NoSQL data stores, data modeling, consistency strategies, and integration approaches (sync/async), including eventing/messaging where applicable.
* Quality, Observability & Operations: Define testing strategies (unit/integration/contract), SLIs/SLOs, monitoring/logging/tracing standards, and incident readiness for production systems.
Please note we will be able to contact only shortlisted candidates for this role. We thank you in advance for your interest.
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