Senior Technical Architect

OVERVIEW

TransPerfect helps organizations navigate the global marketplace. Founder-led for more than three decades the company has grown organically into the worlds largest translation and language services provider with thousands of employees across 100 offices and over $1B in annual revenue.

The TransPerfect TechOps team has been a vital part of the companys success since its formation over a decade ago - delivering technology and services that have drastically simplified the lives of our clients and colleagues from workflow improvements for colleagues to core platform services and scalable client-facing applications.

About this role:

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Technical Architect to own the end-to-end architecture of one of our flagship enterprise SaaS products. You will set the technical vision evolve the multi-tier reference architecture drive modernisation initiatives and partner with product security and SRE leaders to scale the platform across new tenants geographies and compliance regimes - while remaining a strong individual contributor on the hardest engineering problems.

DESCRIPTION

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture of the product across UI API microservices data messaging caching and cloud infrastructure.

• Define and continuously evolve the reference architecture target-state blueprints and technology roadmap; balance build-vs-buy and monolith-vs-microservice trade-offs.

• Translate complex business requirements into clear well-scoped technical solutions and decision records.

• Establish architecture principles design patterns coding standards and review gates; chair the architecture review board and approve high-impact designs.

• Drive modernisation initiatives - framework upgrades containerisation observability zero-trust networking and platform consolidation.

• Design for scale resilience multi-tenancy and data residency; define SLOs/SLAs together with SRE and product.

• Remain a strong individual contributor: prototype critical components write reference implementations and own production code for the toughest problems.

• Design and review APIs (RESTful event-driven and async); define service contracts and integration patterns.

• Architect data models schema-evolution strategies indexing partitioning and archival on the primary RDBMS; tune slow paths and define caching strategies.

• Design event flows on the messaging backbone - topics queues dead-letter handling idempotency and replay.

• Define UI architecture patterns for the SPA - module structure lazy loading state management design-system adoption and accessibility.

• Own the cloud landing zone - networking identity secrets management storage managed databases monitoring and cost governance.

• Define security architecture aligned with ISO 27001 SOC 2 GDPR and other applicable regimes; embed security-by-design across every layer.

• Drive secrets hygiene encryption-at-rest and in-transit key rotation and least-privilege access across the estate.

• Partner with Information Security on threat modelling vulnerability management penetration test remediation and audit response.

• Architect integrations with third-party systems payment gateways and identity providers via APIs webhooks file-based batch and event streams.

• Define and uphold CI/CD pipelines branching strategy and release management across front-end and Linux microservice estates.

• Establish observability standards - structured logging metrics distributed tracing and alerting - across the stack.

• Drive automated testing strategy (unit integration contract performance security) and define quality gates and code-coverage targets with QA leads.

• Lead production incident response for architecture-level issues; conduct blameless post-mortems and convert findings into durable design changes.

• Provide architectural guidance to multiple squads of full-stack engineers team leads and senior engineers; act as the ultimate technical escalation point.

• Mentor and grow architects leads and senior engineers; raise the technical bar through reviews design clinics and brown-bag sessions.

• Partner with Product Management on roadmap shaping effort sizing sequencing and feasibility of new capabilities.

REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• 20 years of professional software engineering experience with at least 5 years in a formal Architect role on a production SaaS product.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Technology Mathematics or a related field; MCA/BCA also considered.

• Demonstrated track record of architecting and scaling a multi-tier multi-tenant SaaS platform.

• Deep production-level expertise / .NET Core C# and Web API hosted on IIS and Windows Server.

• Strong command of microservices architecture RESTful API design API versioning contract-first design and API gateway patterns.

• Solid hands-on experience with event-driven and asynchronous architectures using RabbitMQ (exchanges queues routing DLQs idempotency ordering).

• Hands-on experience designing and operating distributed caches with Redis.

• Proficiency with modern Angular (Angular 12) TypeScript RxJS HTML5 and CSS3 and component-driven SPA architecture.

• Strong PostgreSQL skills - schema design indexing query optimisation partitioning replication and backup/restore on a managed-database service.

• Hands-on Microsoft Azure experience - networking (VNet NSG Private Link VPN) Azure Blob Storage Azure Key Vault Managed PostgreSQL monitoring and cost management.

• Strong working knowledge of Windows Server and IIS as well as Ubuntu and NGINX for the Linux services tier.

• Solid grasp of TLS certificate management identity (OIDC / OAuth2 / SAML) RBAC and secrets management.

• Proficiency with Git and branching strategies and CI/CD using Azure DevOps GitLab CI or equivalent.

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Bicep or ARM) and configuration management.

• Deep knowledge of SDLC Agile and Scrum with experience using Jira Azure Boards Confluence and similar tools.

• Experience defining observability standards using APM / tracing / logging tools (e.g. Application Insights Datadog New Relic ELK).

• A strong systems-thinker with the ability to zoom from a single SQL query to multi-tier architecture without losing context.

• Demonstrated track record of mentoring engineers growing technical talent and building a culture of ownership and learning.