Solution Architect
wsa0.teamtailor.com · Hyderabad, IN ·
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wsa0.teamtailor.com · Hyderabad, IN ·
Driven by the passion to improve quality of people’s lives, WSA continues to grow as market leader in the hearing aid industry. With our commitment to increase penetration in an underserved hearing care market, we want to accelerate our business transformation in order to reach more people, more effectively.
We are looking for a Solution Architect to lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and maintainable enterprise solutions across our digital platforms. This role will provide architectural leadership across multiple products and engineering teams, ensuring that solutions align with enterprise standards, business objectives, and long-term technology strategy.
Design end-to-end technical solutions that are scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable.
Translate business and functional requirements into solution architectures and technical specifications.
Define application, integration, data, and deployment architectures.
Evaluate solution alternatives and recommend the most appropriate technology approach.
Ensure architecture aligns with enterprise standards and long-term technology strategy.
Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership across multiple engineering teams.
Review solution designs, code, and technical decisions to ensure consistency and quality.
Mentor Technical Leads and senior engineers on architecture principles and best practices.
Drive adoption of modern engineering practices and cloud-native architecture patterns.
Promote reusable frameworks, shared services, and platform capabilities.
Design cloud-native solutions using Microsoft Azure services.
Define scalable deployment architectures using containers and Kubernetes where appropriate.
Ensure solutions are secure, highly available, observable, and cost optimized.
Guide engineering teams on cloud architecture, networking, security, and operational best practices.
Provide architectural leadership for applications built using:
C#
.NET / Core
ReactJS
REST APIs
Microservices
Event-driven architectures
Messaging platforms
Distributed systems
Design secure and scalable API-first solutions.
Define integration strategies for internal and external systems.
Establish API governance, versioning, authentication, and documentation standards.
Review messaging and asynchronous communication patterns.
Ensure architecture follows secure-by-design principles.
Incorporate authentication, authorization, encryption, and secrets management into solution designs.
Apply industry security standards and secure coding practices.
Support compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements.
Partner with Engineering Managers to support engineering delivery.
Collaborate with Product Managers to estimate complexity and define implementation roadmaps.
Participate in backlog refinement and technical planning activities.
Identify technical risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
Establish architecture principles, standards, and design guidelines.
Conduct architecture reviews and technical design reviews.
Ensure consistency across products and engineering teams.
Drive technical debt management and modernization initiatives.
Design integration patterns for Generative AI and LLM capabilities across products, including Azure OpenAI Service, Copilot Studio, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.
Establish governance standards and guardrails for the responsible, secure, and compliant adoption of AI across the platform.
Evaluate Generative AI and AI/ML platform components and recommend adoption strategies aligned with business and technology objectives.
Define AI-ready application and data architectures that support LLM integration, vector search, and semantic retrieval patterns.
Use AI tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate architecture documentation, ADR production, and design artefact creation.
Stay current with Azure AI platform capabilities and guide teams on their effective and responsible adoption.
Microservices
Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
Clean Architecture
SOLID Principles
Event-Driven Architecture
CQRS (preferred)
Design Patterns
API-first Design
Distributed Systems
High Availability and Disaster Recovery
BE/ degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
12+ years of software engineering experience.
Minimum 5 years of experience in Solution Architecture or Technical Architecture.
Proven experience designing enterprise-scale applications using Microsoft technologies.
Strong expertise in Azure cloud architecture and modern application design.
Experience working in Agile software development environments.
Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure cloud architecture and modern application design.
Experience designing solutions using:
C#
.NET / Core
ReactJS
REST APIs
Microservices
Event-driven architectures
Distributed systems
Strong understanding of:
Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
SOLID Principles
Clean Architecture
API-first Design
High Availability and Disaster Recovery concepts
Experience defining architecture standards, governance frameworks, and reusable design patterns.
Knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and API governance.
Microsoft Azure certifications (AZ-305, AZ-204, AZ-400).
Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms.
Experience with SaaS platforms and multi-tenant architectures.
Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and cloud-native modernization initiatives.
Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) and their role in accelerating architecture and delivery workflows.
Experience designing solutions within a medical device, hearing aid, or regulated healthcare environment is a strong advantage. Familiarity with regulated software architecture requirements — including software classification, design documentation, and requirements traceability — will be highly valued.
Understanding of ISO 13485 Quality Management Systems and how QMS obligations influence architecture decisions — including audit trail design, data integrity controls, electronic records management, and alignment with FDA 21 CFR Part 11 or EU MDR 2017/745 for regulatory submissions.
Awareness of risk management principles under ISO 14971 and their architectural implications, including hazard identification, risk mitigation through system design, and residual risk documentation for software components in safety-critical medical applications.
Strong architectural and strategic thinking abilities.
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
Proven mentoring and technical coaching skills.
Ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and functions.
Customer-focused mindset with a strong emphasis on quality, scalability, and continuous improvement.
At WSA, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.
Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.
With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.
Sounds wonderful? We can't wait to hear from you.
WSA is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.