What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Architect position at CSC?
Job Title: Principal Architect
Location- Bangalore
Shift- UK shift
Work Mode - Hybrid
Key Responsibilities
- Lead technology strategy, architecture, and execution for strategic products and enterprise platforms
- Translate business priorities into scalable, secure, and supportable technology solutions
- Define and drive target-state architecture for cloud-native and hybrid enterprise applications
- Lead product/platform modernization initiatives with strong focus on Azure adoption, engineering standardization, and long-term maintainability
- Partner with business, product, and engineering stakeholders to shape technology roadmaps and delivery priorities
- Drive architecture decisions across applications, data, integrations, security, resilience, observability, and support models
- Champion modern engineering practices and platform design patterns across the technology organization
- Introduce and scale AI-enabled solutions, intelligent automation, and agentic capabilities within enterprise products and workflows
- Mentor architects and senior engineers, and raise the overall quality of architecture and engineering decision-making
Required Experience
- Significant experience in senior technology leadership, enterprise architecture, or product/platform engineering roles
- Proven track record of building products or platforms from the ground up and scaling them into production
- Strong experience leading architecture and delivery of enterprise applications on Microsoft Azure
- Deep expertise with the Microsoft technology stack, including:
- C# / .NET / ASP.NET Core
- Azure App Service
- Azure Functions
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure API Management
- Azure Service Bus / Event Grid
- Azure SQL / SQL Server
- Cosmos DB
- Azure Storage
- Key Vault
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Azure Monitor / Application Insights
- Strong architecture experience across:
- Microservices
- API-led architecture
- Event-driven systems
- Distributed systems
- Integration architecture
- Cloud security and governance
- Scalability, resilience, and operability patterns
- Strong understanding of how to design stable, maintainable, supportable enterprise application stacks
- Practical experience with AI-enabled product development, including intelligent workflow solutions, agentic patterns, enterprise automation, and governed AI deployment
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with ability to influence across technology and business leadership
Ideal Candidate
- A senior technology leader with strong architectural depth and product mindset
- Comfortable operating across strategy, architecture, and execution
- Experienced in modernizing complex enterprise platforms
- Hands-on enough to guide design decisions credibly, while leading teams and driving outcomes — writes code, builds prototypes, and produces working reference implementations to validate ideas and set engineering standards
- Demonstrates a prototyping-first mindset: defaults to tangible working artefacts over abstract slide decks to de-risk decisions and accelerate team adoption
- Passionate about using cloud and AI capabilities to create durable, enterprise-grade products
Preferred
- Experience in large, global, multi-team technology environments
- Experience in platform modernization, cloud transformation, and enterprise integration
- Experience establishing engineering standards, governance, and architecture best practices across teams
- Hands-on experience in Financial Services technology — specifically Alternative Investments, fund administration, hedge fund platforms, or capital markets systems is a plus
- Familiarity with financial data workflows such as NAV calculation, fund accounting, investor reporting, KYC/AML, or LP/GP portal systems is an advantage