Software Architect [gn] Data Intelligence

About this role

The architecture team at Actian works side-by-side with the development team. We are looking for a Software Architect to design the structure of our cloud platform and make it efficient, easy to extend, maintain and operate. We need a proactive professional who ensures the product meets three key conditions: it must be stable (it doesn't crash when failures happen), efficient (it doesn't skyrocket cloud costs), and easy to use for our own developers .

Your goal is to eliminate technical complexity and set the rules of the game so developers can ship new features fast and without errors. Core Responsibilities: Cloud Platform Design: Design and improve the cloud structure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) of our data platform, ensuring it works well for many clients at the same time. Stability & Fault Tolerance: Build a system ready for failures, capable of recovering automatically and keeping things running if there are issues in production.

Making Life Easy for Developers: Create clear APIs, templates, and common tools so internal developers can write code faster and with fewer mistakes. Cloud Cost Control: Monitor and optimize the use of cloud servers and tools (like Kubernetes) to keep the product cost-effective to run. Improving Legacy Code: Identify parts of the system that have become outdated and plan how to improve them step-by-step without stopping daily work.

Technical Guidance & Standards: Review team designs and define the company's technical standards, helping to resolve questions without becoming a bottleneck. Security by Design: Ensure the platform's structure inherently protects customer data and complies with security rules from the very beginning. System Monitoring: Decide how we measure platform performance so that if something fails, we know exactly what happened within a few minutes.

Testing New Technologies: Build quick prototypes and test new tools before deciding whether to adopt them company-wide. Qualifications & Profile: Technical Background: Proven experience as a Software Architect or Principal Engineer working with cloud SaaS products and systems handling large volumes of data. Key Tools: Real-world experience with microservices, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), messaging systems Proactive Mindset: You don't wait to be told what to do; you look for where the system might fail or where we are overspending, and you propose solutions.