14 days ago
Pune, India +2 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define target technical architecture, reference patterns, architecture principles, and current-to-target-state roadmaps.
- Govern architecture decisions through decision records, design reviews, conformance checkpoints, and escalation of material trade-offs.
- Architect React/TypeScript frontend components, state management, performance budgets, and accessibility standards.
- Direct Node.js/TypeScript and NestJS backend architecture, including service boundaries, API contracts, resilience, and versioning.
- Define MongoDB schema, access-pattern, indexing, lifecycle, and data-integrity strategies.
- Own GraphQL Federation architecture, including supergraph composition, subgraph boundaries, entity resolution, schema contracts, and breaking-change policy.
- Establish Kafka event-driven architecture, including topics, event contracts, partitioning, delivery semantics, schema evolution, Schema Registry, and Avro governance.
- Set identity and access architecture covering authentication, authorization, token handling, session policies, and least-privilege service access.
- Guide Python/FastAPI service architecture and integration with the wider platform.
- Govern n8n usage for workflow automation and integration orchestration.
- Own AI architecture, including model integration and routing, prompt and tooling boundaries, evaluation, safety, cost controls, and PII safeguards.
- Assure application readiness for Docker and Kubernetes using platform-owned Helm charts and GitHub Actions pipelines.
- Set performance and observability standards using Azure Cache for Redis and Application Insights.
- Raise engineering practices and embed unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing across teams.
- Lead architecture governance, delivery reliability, security outcomes, and engineering practices across the organization.
Requirements
- 14–20 years of required experience.
- Proven technical leadership at Lead Technical Architect or Principal Architect scope, including engineering team management.
- Deep expertise in TypeScript, React, Node.js, NestJS, MongoDB/Mongoose, Web Components, and micro-frontends.
- Experience with GraphQL schema design and GraphQL Federation, including subgraph composition and contract versioning.
- Experience with Kafka, Schema Registry, and Avro, including schema evolution and compatibility governance.
- Experience with OAuth2/OIDC, Okta, service-account token exchange, and ABAC.
- Working knowledge of Python and FastAPI in a polyglot service environment.
- Production experience integrating Azure OpenAI and Anthropic model routing with prompt governance, token-cost control, and PII safeguards.
- Experience with cloud-native distributed-systems design and deployment readiness for Docker/Kubernetes applications using Helm and GitHub Actions.
- Established testing and quality practices using Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, and pytest.
- Track record of scaling engineering practices and architecture governance across complex organizations.
- Preferred: TOGAF certification or equivalent structured architecture practice.
- Preferred: Kubernetes, Docker, Infrastructure as Code, and DevSecOps experience beyond core application readiness.
- Preferred: legacy modernization and platform re-architecture experience at scale.
- Preferred: platform engineering or SRE experience involving service-level objectives, observability, and operational resilience.
- Preferred: integration delivery against Mediaocean Prisma or comparable media buying and finance platforms.
- Preferred: Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent AWS certification.
Benefits
- Full-time permanent employment.
- Work location: DGS India, Bengaluru, Manyata N1 Block.
- Brand: Merkle.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSDockerFastAPIGitHub ActionsGraphQLHelmJestKubernetesMongoDBNestJSNode.jspytestPythonReactRedisTypeScript
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About Dentsu
Dentsu is a global advertising and marketing services group that plans and buys media, develops creative campaigns, and builds data- and technology-led customer experiences for brands. It earns revenue from agency fees and media services across a network that includes Carat, iProspect, and Merkle. Founded in 1901 and headquartered in Tokyo, Dentsu is publicly traded in Japan and serves clients across many sectors worldwide.