What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Technical Architect position at Acuity Knowledge Partners (US) Inc.?
Job Purpose:
Seeking a seasoned Senior Technical Architect, preferably someone with Capital Markets/Financial Services experience, who can bridge legacy and modern engineering—refactor and extend systems in C/C / Visual C (Win32/MFC, COM/DCOM) while architecting Java and .NET services for cloud-ready, scalable platforms. Proficient in defining architecture strategy, lead hands-on solutioning, mentor engineers, and partner with global teams and US stakeholders to deliver secure, resilient systems.
· Architecture Ownership: Define end-to-end solution architecture across apps, data, integration, and infrastructure; produce ADRs, HLD/LLD, NFRs, and security models.
· Legacy Modernization: Assess monolith/client-server systems and design migration paths using Strangler Fig, Anti-Corruption Layer, adapters/wrappers, façade and repository patterns; manage interop between COM/DCOM, .NET, and native components.
· Modern Patterns: Establish architectures with microservices, hexagonal (ports-and-adapters), DDD, CQRS, event-driven designs, and API-first principles.
· Integration Strategy: Design REST/gRPC APIs, messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ), contract/versioning and backward compatibility; secure partner integrations and data flows.
· Reliability & Performance: Champion observability (metrics/logs/traces), capacity planning, performance tuning, caching, and resiliency (circuit breaker, bulkhead, retry/backoff).
· Security by Design: Drive threat modeling, secure coding standards, encryption in transit/at rest, identity/roles, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation.
· Cloud & DevOps Collaboration: Guide AWS/Azure solutioning; partner with DevOps on CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/Bicep), artifact lifecycle, release governance.
· Technical Leadership: Lead and handle teams of architects/engineers; set coding/review standards; pair program when needed to unblock complex issues; coach seniors.
· Global Delivery: Coordinate with distributed teams across EMEA/APAC time zones; align architecture with delivery cadences and SLAs; ensure EST overlap.