Technical Architect - IoT & Cloud-Native Systems

Role Overview: As a highly experienced Architect at Thales, you will lead the technical vision, architectural studies, and system design for a large-scale IoT ecosystem, incorporating high-volume device operations, distributed microservices, data platforms, and mission-critical workflows. Your collaboration with engineering, product, operations, and customer teams will ensure that the platform remains scalable, reliable, secure, and aligned with evolving business and regulatory requirements. Key Responsibilities: - Own and drive end-to-end architectural studies for new features, platform enhancements, and system modernization initiatives. - Design scalable, fault-tolerant, cloud-native microservices architectures suitable for high-volume IoT device ecosystems. - Define domain-driven models, API strategies, event flows, and data-management patterns across the platform. - Establish architectural guidelines, design patterns, code-quality rules, and best practices across teams. - Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies such as AI-augmented development, graph DBs, vector stores, observability frameworks, and orchestration engines. Technical Governance & Team Enablement: - Provide hands-on technical guidance to development teams; resolve escalated design and implementation queries. - Conduct design reviews, architecture reviews, and technical audits to ensure consistency and compliance. - Mentor engineers and senior developers; support competency building in distributed systems, cloud, and performance engineering. - Partner with product managers to translate business requirements into feasible and scalable technical solutions. Production Engineering & Reliability: - Collaborate with operations/SRE teams to ensure high availability, performance, and operational visibility. - Review production incidents; contribute to root-cause analysis and long-term architectural fixes. - Promote observability practices, including metrics, tracing, structured logging, and proactive monitoring. - Ensure the platform adheres to enterprise security standards, compliance requirements, and data-governance policies. Customer, Sales, and Pre-Sales Engagement: - Act as a technical representative in customer discussions, workshops, and solutioning sessions. - Support sales and pre-sales teams with architectural inputs, integration strategies, and feasibility assessments. - Present platform capabilities and roadmap to customers and partners in a clear and authoritative manner. - Work with cross-functional teams to structure proposals, RFIs/RFPs, and solution specifications. Strategic & Cross-Functional Leadership: - Align system evolution with organizational strategy, scaling targets, and operational KPIs. - Contribute to long-term architectural roadmap including cloud adoption, data platform evolution, resilience, and AI-driven automation. - Drive continuous improvement initiatives across engineering practices, design rigor, performance tuning, and DevOps maturity. - Encourage innovation through technical prototypes, POCs, and research on emerging paradigms. Qualifications Required: Technical Skills: - 1015+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering with at least 5 years in architecture roles. - Strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, and cloud-native applications (AWS/Azure/GCP). - Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot / Quarkus, REST APIs, and asynchronous processing patterns. - Deep understanding of NoSQL databases, large-scale data modeling (Cassandra/ScyllaDB preferred), and high-volume data processing. - Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes), CI/CD ecosystems, and secure deployment practices. - Strong grounding in system performance, throughput optimization, caching strategies, and multi-tenant architectures. - Knowledge of IoT protocols, device lifecycle management, telecom-grade flows, or eSIM standards is a strong advantage (but not mandatory). - Hands-on experience designing for high availability, resilience, failover, and observability. Soft Skills & Leadership Competencies: - Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a structured approach to complex technical decisions. - Excellent communication and presentation skills to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Ability to work across multiple teams and drive alignment on architecture and design decisions. - Customer-oriented mindset with experience supporting sales and customer engineering discussions. - Ability to work in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities. Role Overview: As a highly experienced Architect at Thales, you will lead the technical vision, architectural studies, and system design for a large-scale IoT ecosystem, incorporating high-volume device operations, distributed microservices, data platforms, and mission-critical workflows. Your collaboration with engineering, product, operations, and customer teams will ensure that the platform remains scalable,