Lead Technical Architect (MERN) at Merkle | AdTechTalent
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Merkle
Lead Technical Architect (MERN)
MERNMongoDBReact.jsNode.jsTypeScriptAzureCI/CDDockerKubernetesMicroservicesREST APIGraphQLKafkaDevSecOpsArchitectureTechnical LeadershipCloudDistributed SystemsTDDBDDEvent-drivenInfrastructure as Code
Key details
Salary
Not specified
Employment type
Full-time
Seniority
Lead
Years experience
10+
Location
Bengaluru, India
Full job description
Lead and mentor software teams delivering MERN stack applications and systems. Provide technical leadership and collaborate with Product, Delivery, Architecture, Security, and DevOps teams. Participate in solution design and drive technical decisions for scalable, resilient, and secure platform services. Own end-to-end architecture for large-scale MERN platforms, remain hands-on with coding and architecture (~70% of role). Define architecture standards, microservices patterns, API standards, event-driven and cloud-native design principles. Manage team skills and development, ensure CI/CD and Agile delivery practices. Present architecture recommendations to leadership and clients. Required: 12+ years experience including 4+ years as Technical or Lead Architect, expert MERN stack knowledge, experience with Azure, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, SOLID principles, TDD/BDD, and strong communication skills.
What you'll do
Manage and mentor software teams delivering applications and systems
Advocate for the team and share practices, ideas and successes with other product delivery teams
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Provide technical leadership across workstream discussions
Participate in brainstorming and solution design sessions with Solution Architects and Developers
Drive the team to agreed outcomes and a technical way forward
Work with Product team to solve business problems with software efficiently
Create the Technical Vision and Roadmap for the Platform Team
Ensure team composition and skills are adequate, conduct regular 1:1s and coaching
Ensure platform services are scalable, resilient, well documented, easy to consume and maintain
Collaborate with Architecture, DevOps, Security teams across geographies and timezones
Deliver secure, reliable, robust, scalable code using automation and CI/CD pipelines and Agile practices
Own end-to-end architecture for large-scale MERN platforms and digital products
Remain hands-on in architecture, coding, code reviews, troubleshooting, POCs and critical feature delivery (~70% of role)
Define target-state architecture, microservices patterns, API standards, event-driven architecture and cloud-native design principles
Drive technical decisions around scalability, security, resiliency, observability and performance
Lead engineering teams across design, development, testing, deployment and production support
Establish coding standards, design reviews, architecture governance and reusable frameworks
Mentor architects and senior engineers and build technical capability across teams
Collaborate with Product, Delivery, Business and Client stakeholders to translate business goals into technical roadmaps
Manage technical risks, dependencies, estimations and executive communications
Present architecture recommendations to senior leadership and clients
Requirements
Proven experience managing small software teams and mentoring engineers in enterprise web development and services development using loosely coupled systems
12+ years overall experience with 4+ years in Technical Architect or Lead Architect roles
Strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices, REST APIs and GraphQL
Hands-on experience with Azure or other public cloud platforms
Experience with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps practices
Experience with Kafka or equivalent event streaming platforms
Deep understanding of SOLID principles, design patterns, TDD/BDD and automated testing
Experience designing high-volume, highly available systems
Strong communication, stakeholder management and client-facing skills
Tech stack
MongoDBMongooseExpress.jsReact.jsNode.jsTypeScriptAzureCI/CDDockerKubernetesInfrastructure as CodeDevSecOpsKafkaREST APIsGraphQLAPI gatewaysABACCMS platformsDataBricksSparkPythonAzure Data LakeAzure Blob storage
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