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Principal Architect

2 months ago Hyderabad, India

About InvoiceCloud

InvoiceCloud is a fast-growing fintech leader recognized with 20 major awards in 2025, including USA TODAY and Boston Globe Top Workplaces, multiple SaaS Awards wins for Best Solution for Finance and FinTech, and national customer service honors from Stevie and the Business Intelligence Group. Judges also highlighted our mission to reduce digital exclusion and restore simplicity and dignity to how people pay for essential services, as well as our leadership in AI maturity and responsible innovation. It’s an award-winning, purpose-driven environment where top talent thrives. To learn more, visit InvoiceCloud.com

Job Details 
We are seeking a highly skilled and results-oriented Principal Engineer, Architecture to support the Engineering Architecture function at InvoiceCloud. This role plays a critical part in defining and evolving the technical foundations that power our secure, high-scale SaaS platform. 
 
The ideal candidate operates as a senior technical authority and trusted partner—capable of owning complex architectural decisions, collaborating across engineering, product, and operations, and shaping platform direction through influence and technical excellence. 
 
Reporting to the VP, Engineering Architecture, this role leads enterprise-wide architectural initiatives, guides large-scale modernization efforts, and ensures alignment between long-term technology strategy and business objectives. 
 
Success Profile 
At InvoiceCloud, success is anchored in our core competencies. These competencies guide how every employee delivers impact across their role 
 
Takes Ownership 
  • Owns end-to-end architectural design and evolution of mission-critical, multi-domain systems that underpin InvoiceCloud’s SaaS platform. 
  • Acts as the accountable technical authority for architectural integrity, proactively identifying risks, tradeoffs, and long-term implications across services and domains. 
  • Serves as a senior advisor to engineering, product, and operations leaders on complex technology decisions, providing clear guidance with minimal oversight. 
  • Maintains stewardship over foundational systems, architecture standards, and design principles to ensure consistency, security, and sustainability at scale. 

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Drives Efficiency 
  • Designs scalable, reusable architecture patterns and platform capabilities that reduce duplication and accelerate delivery across engineering teams. 
  • Leads modernization initiatives—including cloud-native and microservices transformations—that improve reliability, performance, and operational efficiency. 
  • Establishes architectural frameworks, governance models, and technical standards that enable teams to move faster while maintaining quality and compliance. 
  • Identifies systemic bottlenecks across the platform and drives structural improvements that reduce long-term operational cost and complexity. 
Innovator 
  • Identifies and applies emerging technologies and modern architectural approaches to solve complex, enterprise-scale challenges. 
  • Leads proof-of-concept and research initiatives that advance cloud-native, event-driven, and data-informed architecture practices. 
  • AI / Automation: Champions the use of AI-assisted engineering tools for architecture modeling, system analysis, performance optimization, and design validation to improve speed and decision quality. 
  • Translates innovation into practical, production-ready solutions that strengthen flexibility, scalability, and future-readiness of the platform. 
Results Driven 
  • Defines and drives cross-domain architectural strategies that directly support business objectives, customer outcomes, and platform scalability. 
  • Translates product and business strategy into clear, actionable architecture roadmaps that guide investment and execution. 
  • Delivers high-impact architectural solutions that enable secure, resilient, and performant systems across the organization. 
  • Measures success through platform outcomes—such as reliability, scalability, delivery velocity, and risk reduction—ensuring architecture decisions deliver tangible value. 
Requirements 
  • 20+ years of enterprise software engineering experience, with a proven track record leading and delivering large-scale architecture transformations 
  • Strong background in financial services or FinTech, with preference for experience in payments, banking, or lending platforms 
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices, cloud-native architectures, and event-driven design at enterprise scale 
  • Advanced understanding of Agile delivery, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, and automated testing practices 
  • Familiarity with AI frameworks and tools such as Semantic Kernel, Azure OpenAI, and LangChain, and their application in modern software and platform design 
  • Strong working knowledge of security and compliance frameworks, including HIPAA, PCI, and SOC 2 
  • Exceptional communication and technical leadership skills, with the ability to influence decision-making at all levels of the organization 
Hands-on experience with: 
  • .NET technologies (C#, ASP.NET MVC / WebAPI) 
  • Python and modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular) 
  • SQL Server, T-SQL, and related data platforms 
  • Azure DevOps, GitHub, and major cloud providers (Azure preferred) 
  • Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet)

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Client-provided location(s): Hyderabad, India
Job ID: 6624992003
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2025-11-04T18:35:09

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Parental Benefits

      • Work Flexibility

        • Office Life and Perks

          • Vacation and Time Off

            • Financial and Retirement

              • Professional Development

                • Diversity and Inclusion