Experience
- Overall: 12+ years
- Application Architecture: 4+ years
- AlloyDB / PostgreSQL Internals: 6+ years (mandatory)
Role Summary
The
Application & Database Architect will be responsible for defining, designing, and governing
endtoend application and database architecture with a strong focus on
GCP AlloyDB PostgreSQL.
This role demands deep expertise in
distributed PostgreSQL systems,
performance engineering, and
cloudnative architectures, ensuring highly scalable, secure, and highperformance solutions aligned with business and enterprise standards.
The architect will act as a
technical authority, driving application modernization, cloud migration, and database optimization for
high throughput, low latency, and high availability systems deployed across multiple regions.
Key Responsibilities
Application Architecture
- Define endtoend application architecture across UI, services, integration, and data layers
- Design microservicesbased, eventdriven, APIfirst architectures
- Review and govern application designs, frameworks, and coding standards
- Guide teams on nonfunctional requirements: scalability, performance, security, reliability
- Lead application modernization and cloud migration initiatives
- Evaluate and recommend technology stacks, frameworks, and tools
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, DevOps, and security standards
Database & Data Architecture - Design, enhance, and maintain multiregion AlloyDB PostgreSQL clusters on GCP
- Architect for high availability, failover, and crossregion replication
- Optimize read/write distribution, latency, and throughput across regions
- Perform deep AlloyDB/PostgreSQL performance tuning
- Diagnose complex production issues such as:
- Idle transactions
- Longrunning queries
- Subtransaction overhead and lock contention
- Analyze and optimize queries using EXPLAIN / ANALYZE
- Finetune PostgreSQL/AlloyDB parameters for:
- Parallel query execution
- CPU and memory utilization
- High concurrency workloads
- VACUUM and AUTOVACUUM internals
- Drive data modelling (conceptual, logical, physical) and schema governance
- Define indexing strategies and query optimization standards
- Own backup, DR, retention, and database security strategies
- Lead database migration and modernization (onprem cloud, legacy modern DBs)
Cloud & Platform Architecture
- Define cloudnative architectures on GCP (AWS/Azure exposure is a plus)
- Design solutions using managed cloud services (databases, messaging, caching, storage)
- Establish CI/CD, IaC, and DevSecOps standards for applications and databases
- Drive cost optimization, performance tuning, and reliability engineering in cloud environments
Governance & Technical Leadership
- Act as a crossteam technical authority
- Conduct architecture reviews and design walkthroughs
- Mentor senior developers, DBAs, and solution architects
- Collaborate with product owners, business stakeholders, and security teams
- Support presales, estimations, and technical solutioning when required
Required Technical Skills
Application & Integration
- Programming: Java / Python / Node.js (any two preferred)
- Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, eventdriven systems
- API gateways, messaging platforms (Kafka / PubSub / SQSlike systems)
- Frontend awareness: React / Angular (highlevel)
- Working knowledge of GenAI / Agentic AI / MCP workflows
Databases
- AlloyDB PostgreSQL (deep internals – mandatory)
- Other RDBMS: MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server
- NoSQL: DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, or equivalent
- Experience with large data volumes, OLTP/OLAP, and highthroughput systems
- Strong expertise in data modeling and performance engineering
Cloud & DevOps
- Handson architecture experience on GCP / AWS / Azure
- Docker & Kubernetes (designlevel proficiency)
- CI/CD tools: Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform / ARM / CloudFormation
Security & Reliability
- Secure design principles, IAM, encryption, auditing, compliance
- Observability: logging, monitoring, tracing
- DR, resilience, and faulttolerant design
Good to Have
- Experience with data platforms: BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift, Snowflake
- Exposure to ETL and streaming architectures
- Experience in regulated environments (finance, dataprivacy heavy systems)
- TOGAF or Cloud Certifications (GCP / AWS / Azure)
Soft Skills
- Strong stakeholder communication and technical storytelling
- Decisionmaking with clear tradeoff analysis
- Mentoring and technical leadership
- Ability to work across multiple programs and priorities
GCP, AlloyDB,Postgres , SQL
Soft Skills
- Strong stakeholder communication and technical storytelling
- Decisionmaking with clear tradeoff analysis
- Mentoring and technical leadership
- Ability to work across multiple programs and priorities
Skills Required
Angular, Jenkins, Git, Docker, Spring Boot, Kafka, React, Kubernetes, Terraform, Gcp, Cloudformation, Sqs, Pubsub, Restful Apis, Arm, Java, Node.js, Azure Devops, Python
