Director

Sr Director, Software Architecture

Accurate Background·Posted yesterday

Location

All India, Hyderabad

Experience

12–16 years

Required Skills

Software ArchitectureEnterprise ArchitectureMicroservicesAPIsRegulatory ComplianceSecurityData PrivacySaaSEngineering LeadershipCommunication SkillsCloudNativeEventDriven SystemsDomainDriven DesignB2B Product Platforms

About the Role

Role Overview:
When you join Accurate Background, you become an integral part of ensuring every hire leads to a success story. Your contributions will play a key role in advancing the background screening experience, providing visibility and insights to empower clients in making smarter, unbiased decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Governance: - Report directly to the CIO and serve as the senior-most authority for software architecture. - Define and maintain enterprise software architecture vision, principles, and roadmap aligned with company and product strategy. - Establish guiding principles, reference architectures, design frameworks, and engineering standards for screening platforms.

- Own architectural governance, including design reviews, exception management, and technology lifecycle decisions.
• Platform & Technology Leadership: - Partner with Engineering leadership to guide system design and architectural decisions.

- Define and evolve the technology stack to ensure secure, cloud-native, extensible, and cost-effective solutions.
- Lead architectural modernization efforts, including legacy platform evolution and migration to modern architectures.
- Ensure architecture supports regulatory, security, privacy, availability, and performance requirements.
• Product & Business Partnership: - Collaborate with Product Management to translate product strategy into scalable architectural solutions.

- Partner with various business functions to ensure "architecture by design" across all initiatives.
- Evaluate architectural tradeoffs to balance speed-to-market with long-term platform health.
• Engineering Enablement & Design Leadership: - Provide hands-on architectural leadership for complex initiatives and cross-platform designs.

- Define reusable patterns, shared services, and platform capabilities to accelerate delivery.
- Mentor and develop architects and senior engineers, building a strong internal architecture community.
- Champion engineering excellence, design rigor, and architectural consistency.
• Measurement & Continuous Improvement: - Establish architectural health metrics to monitor platform resilience, scalability, technical debt, and security posture.

- Stay updated on emerging technologies and industry best practices for platform competitiveness and future readiness.
- Drive continuous improvement in architectural maturity across the organization.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture, with expertise in enterprise and platform architecture.

• Experience defining and governing architecture for large-scale SaaS or B2B product platforms.

• Strong background in modern architectures: cloud-native, microservices, event-driven systems, APIs, and domain-driven design.

• Experience in regulated environments with understanding of security, data privacy, and compliance.

• Ability to influence and guide engineering organizations without direct line authority.

• Excellent communication skills to articulate architectural concepts to technical and executive audiences.

• Strategic yet hands-on leader passionate about building sustainable, high-quality software platforms.
Company Details:
At Accurate, we offer a fun and fast-paced environment with ample room for growth. We are committed to diversity, ensuring a sense of belonging for all based on four guiding principles: Take Ownership, Be Open, Stay Curious, Work as One. We prioritize customer and employee needs, providing comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, and 401k.
Note: This JD is open for U.S.-based candidates residing in specific states, and candidates should be cautious of fraudulent job postings or offers misrepresenting Accurate Background. Role Overview:
When you join Accurate Background, you become an integral part of ensuring every hire leads to a success story. Your contributions will play a key role in advancing the background screening experience, providing visibility and insights to empower clients in making smarter, unbiased decisions.
Key Responsibilities:
• Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Governance: - Report directly to the CIO and serve as the senior-most authority for software architecture.

- Define and maintain enterprise software architecture vision, principles, and roadmap aligned with company and product strategy.
- Establish guiding principles, reference architectures, design frameworks, and engineering standards for screening platforms.
- Own architectural governance, including design reviews, exception management, and technology lifecycle decisions.

• Platform & Technology Leadership:

- Partner with Engineering leadership to guide system design and architectural decisions.
- Define and evolve the technology stack to ensure secure, cloud-native, extensible, and cos

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