Architect

Role overview

Architect at Sutherland Global

Architecture & Design: Design event-driven, cloud-native microservices using design patterns like Saga, Circuit Breaker, CQRS, and Strangler patterns.

Responsibilities

• System Boundaries: Define bounded contexts and single-responsibility services aligned with specific business domains.
• Inter-Service Communication: Design and enforce API-first contracts using REST, gRPC, or GraphQL.
• Data Management: Implement decentralized data management where each service manages its own datastore (NoSQL/RDBMS).
• Resilience & Reliability: Design for failure by implementing retries, timeouts, bulkheads, and distributed tracing.
• Infrastructure & DevOps: Drive containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines to allow automated deployments.
• Observability: Ensure comprehensive logging, monitoring, and tracing are integrated across all services using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry

Required qualifications

• Essential Qualifications & Tech Stack
• Typically 8+ years in software engineering with a minimum of 3-5 years focusing purely on distributed systems and microservices.
• Programming Languages: Deep expertise in backend ecosystems such as Java/Spring Boot, Go (Golang), Python, or Node.js.
• Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience with AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.
• Message Brokers: Familiarity with event streaming and message queues (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS).
• Security & Governance: Knowledge of zero-trust architectures, OAuth 2.0, SAML, and API Gateways.
• Soft Skills: Strong technical leadership, excellent documentation abilities, and cross-team communication to evangelize microservices best practices.

Employment details

• Location: Hyderabad [TS] [India]

About the employer

• About Sutherland: Artificial Intelligence.
• Automation.
• Cloud engineering.
• Advanced analytics.
• For business leaders, these are key factors of success.
• For us, they’re our core expertise.
• We work with iconic brands worldwide.
• We bring them a unique value proposition through market-leading technology and business process excellence.
• We’ve created over 200 unique inventions under several patents across AI and other critical technologies.
• Leveraging our advanced products and platforms, we drive digital transformation, optimize critical business operations, reinvent experiences, and pioneer new solutions, all provided through a seamless “as a service” model.
• For each company, we provide new keys for their businesses, the people they work with, and the customers they serve.
• We tailor proven and rapid formulas, to fit their unique DNA.
• We bring together human expertise and artificial intelligence to develop digital chemistry.
• This unlocks new possibilities, transformative outcomes and enduring relationships.
• Sutherland Unlocking digital performance.
• Delivering measurable results

Additional role details

• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.