Platform Architect

Lead Platform Engineer / Platform Architect (Principal Engineer)

Location : Mumbai, India

Reporting To : CEO / Founders

Experience: 8 - 12 years

Job Summary

This role serves as the technical authority for the organization’s ERP re-platforming program. The Platform Architect is responsible for long-term system integrity, defining architectural standards, and ensuring correctness as teams scale and delivery velocity increases.

The role exists to own platform-level judgment and progressively remove founders from day-to-day technical decision-making.

Why This Position

• Architect the next decade of a mission-critical ERP platform
• Define platform standards used across all engineering teams
• Work directly with founders on strategic technical direction
• Shape a correctness-first, judgment-driven engineering culture

Key Responsibilities

• Own platform-wide architecture and define clear boundaries between:

Platform services

Shared libraries

Domain services

• Own cross-cutting concerns including identity, authorization, audit trails, metering, logging, and observability
• Define security-first platform architecture with claims-based access and secure service-to-service communication
• Define and govern NuGet and shared library strategy , including:

Versioning and backward compatibility rules

Clear ownership of shared packages

Deprecation and upgrade policies

Preventing tight coupling and “dependency hell” across teams

• Design platform components aligned with cloud-based and serverless deployment realities
• Treat backward compatibility, phased migrations, and rollback safety as non-negotiable
• Protect core ERP workflows such as posting, reconciliation, billing, and reporting
• Set organization-wide standards for EF Core modeling, performance, transactions, and concurrency
• Define gRPC contract standards, validation models, error handling, and versioning strategies
• Define ERP-grade Blazor Server UI standards, ensuring server-side validation and correct state isolation
• Define guardrails for Generative AI usage in engineering, ensuring AI improves quality and safety—not just speed

Skill Requirements

• System-level architectural judgment with a strong sense of platform boundaries and ownership
• Deep understanding of cross-cutting concerns such as security, identity, auditability, and observability
• Strong instincts for backward compatibility, migration safety, and long-term evolvability
• Ability to govern shared abstractions, dependencies, and platform contracts at scale
• Mature perspective on applying AI safely within enterprise-grade engineering systems
• Server-side, data-first, ERP-safe thinking is mandatory
• Strong ASP.NET Core + EF Core backgrounds are acceptable even without Blazor experience

Experience and Qualifications

• 8-12 years owning complex backend or platform systems
• Proven authority over architecture and technical standards in complex systems
• Experience designing or governing shared platforms used by multiple teams
• History of modernizing legacy or mission-critical systems without disrupting customers
• Experience owning decisions with long-term financial or operational impact
• Trusted technical partner to senior leadership or founders in previous roles
• Experience modernizing legacy ERP or financial systems