Software Architect - Privileged Access Management

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Lead & drive the Software Architecture for Saviynt’s PAM SaaS platform and leverage the evolving technology landscape, tools & frameworks, and drive important technical decisions
• Define and drive the architecture of Saviynt’s PAM solution including vault, session management, multi-cloud and edge networking
• Individual contributor that works alongside other architects, PAM team and Infra team and creates/contributes to a reference architecture
• Hands-on design and development in Spring-boot, python ecosystem and educate developers to use best practices in spring application development
• Combine a broad understanding of current technologies with deep, architect-level expertise in core areas such as database design, software architecture, cloud architecture & infrastructure architecture
• Design and architect for performance, security, scalability, resilience, reuse, technology constraints, and tradeoffs
• Review and suggest improvements to IaC components like helm chart, terraform, cloud formation template
• Partner with Product Management on short & long-term product strategy and ensure the software & system architecture support product and organizational strategy and helps in achieving company goals
• Provide technical direction for architectural activities to ensure business objectives are achieved and institutionalize standard methodologies in testing, code quality and design patterns
• Drive research, technology pathfinding, product evaluation, concept building, and rapid product development to mature innovations from cradle to product
• Facilitate and drive technical design conversations as part of the backlog grooming process across development teams

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience designing and building secure, scalable and reliable multi-tenant SaaS Architectures and distributed systems
• Experience designing and building Privilege Access Management solutions
• Extensive knowledge of Privileged Access Management
• Expertise in network level application development using SSH, RDP
• Experience in automating Windows workflows using Autoit, Playwright, Selenium
• Expertise in vault design patterns for secrets management
• Deep, hands-on, architect-level understanding of various JVM frameworks like spring-boot and grails
• In-depth knowledge of how applications get deployed and run in a Kubernetes platform like AWS EKS and/or Azure AKS
• Hand-on experience architecting software that is cloud vendor agnostic
• Hands-on experience implementing containerized microservice design patterns for reliability, resiliency and performance
• Thorough knowledge of security principles and patterns of Authentication and Authorization, Single sign-on, and federation
• Knowledge of spring security, SAML, OAuth, JWT, OTP etc is highly preferred
• Hands-on experience designing REST APIs and event-driven applications
• Extensive experience troubleshooting containerized JVM runtime issues and driving to find a root cause
• Extensive experience using relational databases like MySQL or Postgres or Oracle in AWS/Azure
• Extensive experience using noSQL databases like Elasticsearch or Opensearch in AWS/Azure
• Extensive experience building event-driven distributed systems using messaging platforms like Rabbit MQ or Active MQ or Kafka
• Knowledge of IaC technologies like Terraform/Opentofu/Terragrunt, Helm chart, AWS Cloud formation template, Azure blueprint
• Knowledge of CICD pipelines for multiple cloud platforms
• Extensive experience using Git
• Understanding of reactive programming, distributed architectural design, SOLID principles, Domain Driven Design principles
• Experience with Agile/Scrum SDLC methodology
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with diverse global teams
• The ability to inspire, mentor and encourage teams


Nice to have


• Knowledge publishing application metric and logs to a distributed observability platform
• Structured logging and log aggregation
• Knowledge of NodeJS and Python
• Knowledge of serverless architecture like AWS lambda/Azure functions