Technical Architect _ Product & Client Solutions

We are looking for an experienced Fractional Technical / Solution Architect to provide senior technical leadership across multiple software product development and client implementation projects. The role will be responsible for reviewing system architecture and technical designs, establishing development and maintenance standards, reviewing critical code and technical implementations, guiding developers in troubleshooting and complex technical issues, and ensuring that products are developed using scalable, secure and maintainable architectures.

The role will work across varied client requirements and should therefore have broad experience across software architecture, APIs, authentication/SSO, security, integrations, cloud, databases, Dev Ops and product engineering.

• Review business requirements and translate them into appropriate technical architectures.
• Review and approve application, database, API and integration architecture.
• Evaluate technology choices and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Review scalability, performance, security and maintainability of proposed designs.
• Guide decisions such as monolith vs. microservices, technology selection and integration architecture.
• Prepare/review architecture diagrams and technical design documents.

• Provide technical direction for development of SaaS/web-based products.
• Guide developers from architecture and design through development, deployment and maintenance.
• Establish reusable architecture and technical components wherever appropriate.
• Ensure products are designed for scalability, security and maintainability.

• Review critical source code and pull requests.
• Establish coding standards and code-review practices.
• Identify architectural issues, technical debt, security vulnerabilities and performance concerns.
• Review database structures, APIs and critical business logic.
• Guide refactoring and improvement of existing applications.

• SSO
• OAuth 2.0
• OpenID Connect
• SAML
• JWT
• RBAC
• MFA concepts
• Encryption at rest and in transit
• Secure API design
• Secrets and key management
• OWASP and secure coding practices
• Audit logging and access control

• Design and review REST APIs and third-party integrations.
• Review API authentication, authorization, versioning and error handling.
• Guide ERP, payment, external application and data integrations.
• Review integration reliability, retry mechanisms and data synchronization.

• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Understanding of Docker/containerisation and CI/CD.
• Review deployment architecture and environment strategy.
• Establish development, testing, UAT and production deployment practices.
• Guide application monitoring, logging, alerting and rollback procedures.

• Guide developers in resolving complex application, database, API and deployment issues.
• Perform root-cause analysis of production issues.
• Assist with performance, scalability and reliability problems.
• Establish systematic troubleshooting and incident-management practices.

• Define technical documentation standards.
• Define Git and branching practices.
• Establish code-review and release-management processes.
• Establish standards for development and maintenance.
• Conduct periodic technical health reviews of applications.

• Mentor developers and technical leads.
• Guide developers in architecture and technology decisions.
• Improve engineering practices and technical capability of the team.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point for the development team.

• 1015+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years in Solution Architect, Technical Architect, Principal Engineer, Engineering Lead or equivalent senior technical roles.
• Proven experience in end-to-end product development.
• Experience architecting and reviewing multiple software applications/products.
• Experience reviewing code written by other developers.
• Experience leading or mentoring software development teams.
• Experience working with multiple technologies and client requirements.
• Experience in production systems and troubleshooting.
• Experience with SaaS/product development is highly desirable.

• Strong architectural understanding of:
• Backend technologies such as Java/Spring Boot, .NET, Node.js or equivalent
• React/Angular/Vue or equivalent frontend…