Lead Technical Architect (MERN)
On-siteBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job Summary
Own end-to-end architecture for large-scale MERN platforms and digital products, defining target-state designs, microservices patterns, and cloud-native principles while remaining hands-on with coding, code reviews, and critical feature delivery. Lead engineering teams across design, development, testing, and production support, ensuring scalable, resilient, and secure systems built with CI/CD pipelines and Agile practices. Mentor architects and senior engineers, establish coding standards, and drive technical decisions on scalability, observability, and performance. Collaborate with Product, Delivery, and Client stakeholders to translate business goals into technical roadmaps and present recommendations to senior leadership. Manage technical risks, dependencies, and estimations within the Dentsu ecosystem.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience managing small software teams and mentoring engineers in enterprise web development and services development using loosely coupled systems
- 12+ years overall experience
- 4+ years in Technical Architect or Lead Architect roles
- Expert MERN stack knowledge: MongoDB, Mongoose, Express.js, React.js, Node.js and TypeScript
- Strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices, REST APIs and GraphQL
- Hands-on experience with Azure or other public cloud platforms
- CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps practices
- Kafka or equivalent event streaming platforms
- Deep understanding of SOLID principles, design patterns, TDD/BDD and automated testing
- Experience designing high-volume, highly available systems
- Strong communication, stakeholder management and client-facing skills
Desired Qualifications
- Working knowledge of API gateways (Kong or equivalent), ABAC solutions (Symphonic or equivalent), CMS platforms (Strapi or equivalent)
- Experience of Developer Portals or documentation relating to shared development services
- Experience of Docker and/or Kubernetes an advantage
- Working knowledge of DataBricks/Spark (using Python and associated frameworks)
- Working knowledge of Azure Data Lake and Azure Blob storage
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