Director - Software Architecture

As the Director of Software Architecture, your primary responsibility is to guide the technical design and architectural direction of both existing systems and new application initiatives. You will provide leadership and technical mentorship to software engineering teams, ensuring strong architectural alignment. Your role involves defining, promoting, and driving the adoption of best practices across architectural frameworks, coding standards, DevOps processes, and technology usage. **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead efforts to architect, design, develop, deploy, and support software systems - Architect and design robust, secure data integrations with other HCA Healthcare India or vendor systems - Collaborate with product managers, stakeholders, and the development team on product architecture and technical design - Provide technical leadership in large-scale development projects involving multiple areas outside of the core team - Collaborate with other technical teams across HCA Healthcare India - Design fit-for-purpose products to ensure alignment with the customer's strategic plans and technology roadmaps - Coach the team on the existing system structure, constraints, and deficiencies with the product - Mentor developers in software development and architectural practices - Contribute to a smooth CI/CD pipeline - Share knowledge and experience to enhance overall team capabilities - Provide leadership in the deployment, change, configuration, management, administration, and maintenance of the deployment process and systems - Focus on customer satisfaction - Rapidly prototype and deliver just-in-time solutions - Work in an environment with rapidly changing business requirements and priorities - Establish and drive adoption of best practices for architectural and coding patterns, DevOps practices, and framework usage - Collaborate with product managers and designers to ensure the feasibility of product direction - Architect and design software products and lead the development and implementation of solutions with minimal supervision - Provide ongoing technical support for both existing and new applications **Qualifications:** - B.Tech or Bachelors degree in information technology, computer science, or related fields **Years of Experience:** - 1014 years of experience in technical leadership in small to medium multi-role teams - Development background with expertise in .NET, C#, database design and development for transactional and reporting databases on relational and NoSQL platforms **Skills and Capabilities:** - People management - History of technical leadership in small to medium multi-role teams - Technical skills - Expertise with C#, .Net, Java, Python, Angular, React product development - Hands-on coding and review experience (required) - Experience with Microsoft Azure / GCP (preferred) - Experience with Microsoft Service Bus (preferred) - Experience with Microservice Architectures (required) - Strong experience with Relational and Non-Relational databases - Strong experience in software architecture and public cloud architecture - Strong DevOps skills preferred - Designing end to end AI/ML platforms (data pipelines model training deployment) - Architecting scalable, distributed ML systems (Kubernetes, Ray, Spark) - Integrating LLMs and foundation models into enterprise systems - Data pipelines for training & inference - Data governance, data quality, observability - Responsible AI frameworks - AI agent orchestration and agentic frameworks - Defining AI roadmap and investment strategy - Other Skills - Highly motivated self-starter, enthusiastic learner, committed to delivering high-quality solutions within scheduled timelines - Demonstration of and belief in the Agile mindset - Delivery of past software systems with documented value - Strong focus on delivering customer value - Excellent troubleshooting, analysis, and problem-solving abilities - Ability to engineer and build software through multiple languages and tools - Strong verbal and written communication with the ability to work with staff and business - Willingness to learn the business domain - Willingness to contribute to a positive and inclusive team culture As the Director of Software Architecture, your primary responsibility is to guide the technical design and architectural direction of both existing systems and new application initiatives. You will provide leadership and technical mentorship to software engineering teams, ensuring strong architectural alignment. Your role involves defining, promoting, and driving the adoption of best practices across architectural frameworks, coding standards, DevOps processes, and technology usage. **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead efforts to architect, design, develop, deploy, and support software systems - Architect and design robust, secure data integrations with other HCA Healthcare India or vendor systems - Collaborate with product ma