Nagarro

Principal Engineer (Microservices Architecture)

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Chennai, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own solution architecture for large-scale, secure, resilient, API-driven enterprise applications.
  • Design and implement scalable microservices architectures aligned with business and technology objectives.
  • Lead high-level design, architecture definition, technology selection, and solution design activities.
  • Define architecture patterns, technical standards, best practices, reusable components, and solution blueprints.
  • Ensure solutions meet scalability, availability, resilience, security, performance, maintainability, and regulatory requirements.
  • Lead architecture discussions across product, engineering, security, infrastructure, business, and Agile teams.
  • Review solution designs and provide architectural guidance throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Identify architectural risks, technical dependencies, security gaps, and scalability challenges, and define mitigation strategies.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to architects, senior engineers, and development teams.
  • Manage senior stakeholders and communicate complex technical concepts and architecture decisions.
  • Drive adoption of reusable architecture patterns and engineering best practices across projects and teams.
  • Contribute to modernization initiatives involving APIs, microservices, cloud-native technologies, and enterprise platforms.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and support AI/GenAI use cases involving LLMs, RAG, vector databases, MCP, and AI agents.
  • Provide architectural support during implementation, testing, deployment, and production stabilization.

Requirements

  • 11+ years of experience, including relevant solution architecture or closely related architecture experience.
  • Strong hands-on experience designing and architecting microservices-based applications.
  • Experience designing and architecting at least three large-scale, secure, resilient, API-driven applications.
  • Strong expertise in high-level design, enterprise architecture patterns, and scalable solution design.
  • Strong understanding of API-driven architectures, distributed systems, microservices, integration patterns, and enterprise application architecture.
  • Experience defining architecture standards, best practices, technical guidelines, and reusable solution blueprints.
  • Experience working within Agile squads or tribes and collaborating with cross-functional product and engineering teams.
  • Strong banking domain experience, with exposure to banking, wealth management, lending, asset management, and accounting.
  • Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles, secure application architecture, security architecture concepts, and secure-by-design practices.
  • Knowledge of PCI-DSS, GDPR, and UAE regulatory requirements.
  • Strong stakeholder management, communication, presentation, influencing, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor architects and engineering teams and provide technical leadership.
  • Desirable exposure to offensive and defensive security concepts, AI/GenAI, LLMs, RAG, vector databases, MCP, AI agents, and emerging technologies.
  • Familiarity with GitHub Copilot and Claude Code is an advantage.
  • A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
  • Security Architect experience or exposure is an added advantage.

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About Nagarro

10,000+ employees

Nagarro provides digital engineering and IT consulting services to enterprises, delivering custom software development, cloud modernization, data and analytics, IoT, and digital commerce solutions. Its business model centers on project-based and managed services across the full product lifecycle, from strategy and design to build and operations. Nagarro is a public company headquartered in Munich and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, with global delivery across multiple regions.

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