Company Description
QuCatalyst is a trusted strategic consulting and execution partner that helps organizations harness the power of smart outsourcing to reduce the Cost of Poor Quality (CoPQ), streamline operations, and accelerate digital transformation. We ensure every initiative aligns with business goals, timelines, and budgets. Our mission is to provide precise and purposeful solutions to meet our clients needs effectively.
Position: Senior Technical Product Architect
Location: Kolkata | Onsite | Full-time
Experience: 10-12 years
Compensation: As per the company standards
Note: The person should have good experience as SAAS Architect. Must have experience in migration.
Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Technical Product Architect with 1012 years of hands-on experience in designing scalable, secure, and high-performance enterprise solutions. The ideal candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product vision, architecture strategy, and technical roadmap while providing deep technical leadership throughout the product lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
1. Architectural Leadership
- Define, own, and evolve the end-to-end architecture of complex software products and platforms.
- Create high-level and low-level architecture documents, reference architectures, and technology blueprints.
- Evaluate and recommend modern technologies, frameworks, and tools aligned with business goals.
2. Product Strategy & Roadmap
- Work closely with Business Analysis team to translate business needs into technical requirements and architecture.
- Ensure architectural decisions support long-term product scalability, performance, and reliability.
- Participate in defining product vision, future-state architecture, and technology modernization initiatives.
3. Technical Governance
- Set and enforce architectural standards, best practices, coding guidelines, design patterns, and performance benchmarks.
- Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, and technical assessments across product teams.
- Mitigate technical risks early through proper design principles and POCs.
- Lead the technical design and development of core modules, APIs, microservices, and integrations.
- Develop prototypes and POC to validate architectural approaches.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues related to performance, scalability, security, and integrations.
- Having experience with web and mobile (cross platform & native) application development
4. Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, UX, BA, and QA teams to ensure cohesive and efficient delivery.
- Provide technical mentorship to senior engineers and help guide development teams with solutioning.
Required Skills & Qualifications
Technical Skills
- Strong expertise in system design, distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, and microservices.
- Deep knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (Azure/AWS/GCP).
- Experience with modern tech stacks such as: o Backend: Node.js / Python o Frontend: React / Angular / Vue o Databases: MySQL, PgSQL, MongoDB, caching technologies
- Strong understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience designing secure systems using industry standards (OAuth2, JWT).
- Expertise in API architecture (REST, GraphQL).
Soft Skills
- Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to translate abstract problems into pragmatic solutions.
- Proven leadership, mentoring, and decision-making abilities.
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a strategic mindset.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Prior experience working in agile product development environments.
- Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect, Kubernetes certifications, etc.
