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Software Application Architect - India 100% Remote

XTRM

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Key highlights

Experience: 5+ years in software/app architecture (2-4+ years in Azure)
Notable Requirement: Proficiency in C#, .NET CORE, or PowerShell
Notable Requirement: Hands-on experience with AKS, Azure Functions, and Cosmos DB

Role overview

Xtrm is a global fintech payments company with a next-generation platform and embedded payment API designed around an intelligent wallet architecture, serving over 25,000 global customers via a fully distributed team. The company is seeking an experienced Software Application Architect with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure to design, build and oversee scalable, secure, enterprise-cloud applications, translating business requirements into cloud architecture and leading design and development teams to ensure alignment with best practices for performance, security, reliability and cost-efficiency.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the application architecture of cloud-based solutions on Azure for Indian customers or global profiles delivered from India — including IaaS, PaaS, serverless, containers/microservices.
Engage with business stakeholders, product owners, development, QA, operations teams to gather and refine functional & non-functional requirements (scalability, latency, resilience, security, cost)
Develop architecture blueprints, reference architectures, road-maps and integration/migration strategies — either for new builds on Azure or migrations from on-premises/hybrid to Azure.
Ensure adherence to Azure best practices such as the Azure Well-Architected Framework (governance, security, identity, cost management, monitoring).
Lead technical design reviews, code / architecture reviews, enforce standards & best practices across the SDLC (development → deployment → operations) in Indian context (e.g., local compliance/regulation, data residency).
Design and execute application migrations (on-premises → Azure), modernisation of legacy applications to cloud-native/hybrid (in Indian enterprise or MNC setups).
Help define and guide CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC, e.g., ARM Templates, Terraform), automation, monitoring, alerting and operationalisation of solutions.
Mentor and collaborate with development teams, support cloud-application design, secure coding practices, performance tuning, and knowledge transfer relevant to Indian delivery model.
Stay current with new Azure services/features, evaluate suitability for India-based architecture, and recommend adoption of relevant capabilities.
Produce and maintain architecture documentation, road-maps, governance and standards, and communicate architecture trade-offs clearly to both technical & non-technical stakeholders (including offshore/onshore teams).

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent.
At least 5+ years of experience in software/application architecture, with a significant portion (2–4+ years) focused on Azure cloud solutions.
Hands-on experience with Azure services: compute (VMs, Azure App Services), storage (Blob, Cosmos DB, SQL), networking (VNets, ExpressRoute), PaaS/serverless (Azure Functions, Logic Apps), containers (AKS, Azure Container Instances).
Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles: scalability, high-availability, resilience, disaster recovery, security, cost optimisation — especially in the Indian enterprise delivery model.
Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (C#, .NET CORE, PowerShell, etc) and familiarity with integrating applications with Azure services.
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (ARM templates, Terraform), CI/CD (Azure DevOps/Bamboo/Jenkins), DevOps automation, monitoring/observability tools.
Excellent communication skills — ability to articulate architecture decisions, trade-offs and design rationale to both technical teams and business/stakeholders (including offshore delivery).
Ability to work in a hybrid/remote delivery model, and manage across geographies if needed.

Nice to have

Master’s degree.
Certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Azure developer associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
Experience migrating monolithic / legacy applications to microservices, serverless or containerised architectures.
Familiarity with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes/AKS) and hybrid cloud models (on-prem + cloud).
Previous consulting or enterprise-scale delivery experience
Experience across data platforms (Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, Data Lake) and analytics/AI services on Azure.
Prior exposure to governance/compliance, identity & access management (Azure AD, RBAC, MFA)
Understanding of DevSecOps, cloud security architecture, data residency/localisation issues (India), regional regulatory compliance.
Ability to lead and mentor junior architects/technical leads and manage architecture across full lifecycle.