The Role
Lead Technical Architect drives end-to-end software development, ensures reusable stable code, mentors engineers, integrates cloud and modern architectures, leads design, reviews, testing, and delivery.
Summary Generated by Built In
The purpose of this role is to provide technical guidance and suggest improvements in development processes. Develop required software features, achieving timely delivery in compliance with the performance and quality standards of the company.
Job Description:
- Participates in the entire software development cycle - requirements’ analysis, design and development, unit testing and documentation.
- Responsible for long-term code reusability and stability
- Proactively identifies security, usability etc. issues and formulates strategies to resolve them.
- Works independently, without guidance, with broader overview on the project
- Takes ownership of the delivery of complex application features and resolves key technical issues related to the assigned project.
- Complies with estimation process and is responsible for accurate personal estimates.
- Develops required software features, achieving timely and quality delivery.
- Delivers training and participates in knowledge sharing.
- Mentors’ new software engineers in the team
- Integrates recent technologies.
- Understands and follows the release processes in the company.
Must Have:
- Minimum 8 to 12 years of experience
- Expertise with building components/ Services using Java/Node JS/Python
- Expertise in building Agentic workflows on Azure
- Expertise with Schema design and dimensional modelling, Optimizing data warehouse performance.
- Experience in leading code reviews.
- Demonstrate understanding of SOLID principles.
- Demonstrate understanding of TDD or BDD.
- Good knowledge and experience of writing good unit tests.
- Good implementation design using cloud (Azure)
- Microservices architecture, RESTful Webservices, NoSQL & SQL
- Exposure towards Docker & containerization, CI/CD pipeline design & build
- Event driven architecture, Kafka.
- Use of tools such as JIRA, Git, GitHub
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to lead discussion and solve problems for the dev team
- Ability to manage expectations of Product/Business teams in terms of prioritizing quality, aligning to the strategic vision
- Provide guidance on inline technical documentation
Good to have:
- Experience in AWS or GCP
- Experience in GraphQL tools such as ApolloGraph or Wundergraph.
- Experience with Serverless.
- Experience in Terraform/Cloud Formation
- Tools like Babel, Webpack, NestJS, Jest, Lint, Helm to support build of Node applications.
- Experience in orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow
- Experience with troubleshooting using Grafana / Loki.
Location:
DGS India - Mumbai - Thane Ashar IT ParkBrand:
MerkleTime Type:
Full timeContract Type:
PermanentSkills Required
- Minimum 8 to 12 years of experience
- Expertise building components/services using Java, Node.js, Python
- Expertise in building Agentic workflows on Azure
- Expertise with schema design and dimensional modelling; optimizing data warehouse performance
- Experience in leading code reviews
- Understanding of SOLID principles
- Understanding of TDD or BDD
- Experience writing good unit tests
- Cloud implementation design experience (Azure)
- Microservices architecture and RESTful webservices
- Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases
- Exposure to Docker and containerization; CI/CD pipeline design and build
- Experience with event-driven architecture and Kafka
- Familiarity with JIRA, Git, GitHub
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to lead discussions and solve problems for the dev team
- Ability to manage product/business expectations and prioritize quality
- Provide guidance on inline technical documentation
- Experience in AWS or GCP
- Experience with GraphQL tools such as Apollo Graph or WunderGraph
- Experience with Serverless architectures
- Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation
- Familiarity with Babel, Webpack, NestJS, Jest, Lint, Helm
- Experience with orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow
- Experience troubleshooting using Grafana and Loki
dentsu Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about dentsu and has not been reviewed or approved by dentsu.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave at full pay and caregiver supports (including backup care) are emphasized as standout elements. Feedback suggests family-oriented benefits are a strong part of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible or unlimited PTO, extensive paid holidays, and a year-end office closure are established components. Feedback suggests time-off policies are generous and add meaningful flexibility.
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Retirement Support — A large, established 401(k) plan with employer matching is clearly documented. Feedback suggests retirement benefits feel competitive and straightforward.
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What We Do
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