# Senior Architect

> Weekday AI · Bengaluru, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-30

**Salary:** INR 4,500,000–9,000,000

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Weekday's Client via platform

## Description

**This role is for one of Weekday’s clients  
Salary range: Rs 4500000 - Rs 9000000 (ie INR 45 - 90 LPA)**

  
Min Experience: 13+ years  
Location: Bengaluru  
JobType: full-time

We are looking for an experienced **Senior Architect** to lead the architecture, design, and technical direction of complex, scalable, and high-performance software solutions. The ideal candidate will have **13–20 years of experience** in software engineering and architecture, with strong expertise in **Solution Architecture and REST API Design**.

You will work closely with engineering teams, product managers, business stakeholders, and technology leaders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions. The role requires strong architectural thinking, hands-on technical understanding, and the ability to guide teams through the complete software development lifecycle.

## Requirements

### Must-Have Skills

-   Strong expertise in **Solution Architecture** and enterprise application design.
-   Extensive experience designing and implementing **RESTful APIs** and API-driven architectures.
-   13–20 years of experience in software development, architecture, or technology leadership roles.
-   Strong understanding of scalable, secure, highly available, and distributed systems.
-   Experience defining architecture standards, design principles, technology choices, and technical roadmaps.
-   Strong knowledge of software design patterns, architectural patterns, and engineering best practices.
-   Experience working with microservices, cloud-native applications, and distributed architectures.
-   Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and make architecture decisions aligned with business objectives.
-   Strong understanding of API security, authentication, authorization, versioning, error handling, and performance optimization.
-   Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

### Key Responsibilities

-   Define and own the **solution architecture** for complex business applications and technology platforms.
-   Translate functional and non-functional requirements into scalable and maintainable technical architectures.
-   Design robust **REST APIs**, including API contracts, resource models, authentication mechanisms, versioning, and integration patterns.
-   Create high-level and low-level architecture designs, technical specifications, and solution blueprints.
-   Establish architectural standards and ensure solutions follow security, scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability requirements.
-   Collaborate with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and business teams to understand requirements and develop effective technology solutions.
-   Evaluate existing systems and identify opportunities for modernization, optimization, and architectural improvements.
-   Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineers, developers, and technical leads.
-   Review technical designs, code approaches, integration strategies, and architecture decisions to ensure alignment with established standards.
-   Assess new technologies, frameworks, platforms, and tools and recommend appropriate solutions based on business and technical requirements.
-   Identify technical risks, dependencies, scalability concerns, and potential bottlenecks early in the development lifecycle.
-   Work with engineering teams to ensure successful implementation of architectural designs.
-   Support production reliability initiatives and help resolve complex technical and architectural challenges.
-   Contribute to technology roadmaps and long-term platform modernization strategies.

### Qualifications

-   Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
-   13–20 years of relevant experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise technology.
-   Proven experience architecting large-scale applications and distributed systems.
-   Strong hands-on understanding of **REST API design and integration**.
-   Experience with cloud platforms, databases, messaging systems, microservices, and modern application architectures is preferred.
-   Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and communication abilities.

## Apply

[Apply at Weekday AI](https://apply.workable.com/weekday-1/j/8C953A8062/apply)

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