Director - Software Architecture

Job Purpose

The Director of Software Architecture is accountable for guiding the technical design and architectural direction of both existing systems and new application initiatives. This role provides leadership and technical mentorship to software engineering teams, ensuring strong architectural alignment. The director will define, promote, and drive the adoption of best practices across architectural frameworks, coding standards, DevOps processes, and technology usage.

Major Responsibilities And Accountabilities
• Lead efforts to architect, design, develop, deploy, and support software systems
• Architect and design robust, secure data integrations with other HCA Healthcare India or vendor systems
• Collaborate with product managers, stakeholders, and the development team on product architecture and technical design
• Provide technical leadership in large-scale development projects involving multiple areas outside of the core team
• Collaborate with other technical teams across HCA Healthcare India
• Design fit–for–purpose products to ensure products align with the customer's strategic plans and technology road maps
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of value–based decision–making and Agile principles across teams
• Coach the team on the existing system structure, constraints, and deficiencies with the product
• Mentor developers in software development and architectural practices
• Contribute to a smooth CI / CD pipeline
• Share knowledge and experience to contribute to the growth of overall team capabilities
• Provide leadership in the deployment, change, configuration, management, administration, and maintenance of the deployment process and systems
• Focus on customer satisfaction
• Rapidly prototypes and delivers just–in–time solutions
• Work in an environment with rapidly changing business requirements and priorities
• Demonstrate deep understanding and act as a leader in the team’s continuous integration and continuous delivery automation pipeline
• Establish and drive adoption of best practices for architectural and coding patterns, DevOps practices, and framework usage
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to ensure the feasibility of product direction
• Architect and design software products and lead the development and implementation of solutions with minimal supervision
• Provide on–going technical support for both existing and new applications

REPORTING STRUCTURE

Does this position formally supervise employees? (Y / N)No

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

Qualification

B.Tech or Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer Science, or related fields

Years of Experience: 10–14 years of experience in:
• Technical leadership in small to medium multi–role teams
• Development background with expertise in .NET, C#, as well as database design and development experience for transactional and reporting databases on relational and NoSQL platforms

Skills And CapabilitiesDetails

People management
• History of technical leadership in small to medium multi–role teams

Technical skills
• Expertise with C#, .Net, Java, python, angular, react product development.
• Hands-on coding and review experience (required)
• Experience with Microsoft Azure / GCP (preferred)
• Experience with Microsoft Service Bus (preferred)
• Experience with Microservice Architectures (required)
• Strong experience with Relational and Non-Relational databases.
• Strong experience in software architecture and public cloud architecture
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of software patterns, software modeling, secure programming principles, test–driven development or another unit testing methodology, and code
• standards compliance
• Architect and design software products, as well as lead the development and implementation of solutions with minimal supervision
• Strong DevOps skills is preferred
• Designing end to end AI/ML platforms (data pipelines → model training → deployment).
• Architecting scalable, distributed ML systems (Kubernetes, Ray, Spark).
• Integrating LLMs and foundation models into enterprise systems.
• Pattern selection: RAG, fine tuning, agents, vector databases and Multi agent workflows
• Data pipelines for training & inference.
• Data governance, data quality, observability.
• Responsible AI frameworks.
• AI agent orchestration and agentic frameworks
• Defining AI roadmap and investment strateg

Other Skills
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to ensure the feasibility of product direction
• Mentor developers in software development and architectural practices
• Highly motivated self–starter, an enthusiastic learner, and must be committed to delivering high quality solutions within scheduled timelines
• Demonstration of and belief in the Agile mindset
• Delivery of past software systems with documented value (required)
• Strong focus on delivering customer value (required)
• Excellent troubleshooting, analysis, and problem-solving abilities (required)
• Ability to engineer and build software through multiple languages and tools (required)
• Strong verbal and written communication with the ability to work with staff and business
• (required)
• Willingness to learn our business domain
• Willingness to contribute to a positive and inclusive team culture