Senior Cloud-Native Architect (Microservices) — Melbourne

AYAN InfoTech is looking for Technical Architect to join an exciting project based in Melbourne . The role offers you the opportunity to contribute towards an extremely well structured and mature environment, working on sophisticated enhancement projects. Role: Technical Architect Location: Melbourne Contract Duration: 6 Months with high possible extensions Experience: 7+ Years Role Overview: We are seeking a Technical Architect with strong experience in current systems design, microservices and cloud-native architecture, and the ability to lead architecture discussions with client stakeholders. This role blends hands-on technical depth with solution leadership actively participating in solutioning driving end-to-end architecture from discovery and high-level design through delivery governance, ensuring scalable, secure, and maintainable systems. Key Responsibilities:
- Architecture & System Design: Own end-to-end solution architecture for new systems and major enhancements, producing HLD/LLD, target-state architectures, and decision records.
- Client Stakeholder Engagement: Lead architecture workshops and technical deep-dives with client stakeholders, translate business goals into technical options, and clearly communicate trade-offs, risks, and recommendations.
- Solutioning: Participate in solutioning and discovery with client/business stakeholders to develop solution options, define scope and assumptions, provide high-level effort estimates, identify risks and dependencies, and contribute to solution proposals and stakeholder presentations.
- Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs): Define and validate NFRs (performance, availability, security, scalability, resiliency, observability) and ensure they are implemented and tested.
- Integration & API Strategy: Design APIs and integration patterns (REST, async messaging, event-driven) including versioning, contracts, and governance across services and teams.
- Cloud Architecture: Architect and guide deployments on AWS (or equivalent), covering networking, identity and access, data services, cost considerations, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Security & Compliance: Establish security architecture (authentication/authorization, secrets management, encryption, secure API design) and align solutions with relevant compliance and data protection needs.
- Architecture Governance & Technical Leadership: Provide technical direction to delivery teams, review designs and code for architectural alignment, mentor engineers, and ensure best practices and standards are followed.
- AI-Assisted Implementation: Leverage AI coding assistants (e.g., Cursor AI) to accelerate implementation and prototyping, while enforcing engineering rigor through design reviews, secure coding practices, code review, and automated testing.
- Delivery Collaboration: Partner with Product Owners, Engineering leads, and Program/Delivery Managers to align architecture with scope, milestones, and business outcomes, and proactively manage architectural risks and dependencies. Required Technical Skills:
- Minimum: 15+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in an architecture/technical leadership role driving system design decisions.
- Preferred: Proven track record leading client-facing architecture discussions and delivering cloud-native solutions at enterprise scale (new builds and/or modernization programs).
- Architecture: Strong experience producing HLD/LLD, defining reference architectures, applying design patterns, and making trade-offs across performance, cost, and maintainability.
- Microservices & Distributed Systems: Hands-on experience designing scalable distributed systems (service boundaries, data ownership, resiliency, service discovery, distributed tracing) and guiding teams on implementation.
- Application Development: Strong depth in backend engineering (e.g., Java/Spring Boot) and familiarity with modern UI frameworks (e.g., React) to make sound architecture decisions and review implementations.
- Cloud: Architecture and hands-on knowledge of AWS (or equivalent) covering compute, storage, databases, networking, IAM, and well-architected best practices (reliability, security, cost, performance).
- DevOps & Platform Practices: CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation), with an ability to define deployment strategies and environment standards.
- AI Development Tools: Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., Cursor AI, GitHub Copilot) including prompt discipline, validation of generated code, and adherence to security, privacy, and compliance standards.
- Data & Integration: Strong knowledge of SQL/NoSQL data stores, data modeling, consistency strategies, and integration approaches (sync/async), including eventing/messaging where applicable.
- Quality, Observability & Operations: Define testing strategies (unit/integration/contract), SLIs/SLOs, monitoring/logging/tracing standards, and incident readiness for production systems. Please note we will be able to contact only shortlisted candidates for this role. We thank you in advance for your interest. #J-18808-Ljbffr Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3rmw3v