Principal Architect
# Principal Architect **LeadSquared** · Bengaluru, Karnataka · `On-site` 🕒 **Статус:** *Опубликовано: сегодня* · *Источник: Indeed* --- ### About the Role 06-10-2026 Job_423 Bangalore, Karnataka, India Job Description Principal Architect Location: Bengaluru Reports to: Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Experience: 14–20 years, with a substantial track record in software architecture and technical leadership Function: Engineering About LeadSquared LeadSquared is a rapidly growing SaaS platform powering high-velocity sales and customer engagement execution across global industries, including BFSI, Education, Healthcare, and Marketplaces. We build large-scale, mission-critical systems focused on performance, reliability, and innovation. As our platform and product portfolio expand including new AI-native capabilities we are looking for a Principal Architect to shape the technical foundation that will carry the business into its next phase of growth. Role Overview We are looking for a Principal Architect for our Core Platform who combines deep technical architecture skill with a strong grasp of LeadSquared’s technology, product, and business landscape. This is a senior individual-contributor role reporting directly to the CTO built around technical ownership and influence. You will own the target-state architecture of the core platform: defining where it needs to go to support the future direction of our products and business, and charting a credible, phased path to get there. Just as importantly, you will be a magnet and mentor for our most talented senior engineers raising the technical bar across the organisation and giving high-potential IC talent a compelling reason to grow and stay at LeadSquared. Key Responsibilities Platform & Technical Strategy - Build and maintain a deep working understanding of LeadSquared’s technology stack, product portfolio, and the business/customer landscape across BFSI, Education, Healthcare, and Marketplaces. - Define and drive the target-state architecture for the core platform covering scalability, multi-tenancy, extensibility, performance, security, Infra Cost and data architecture. - Translate the future direction of product and business including emerging AI-native and agentic capabilities into a coherent, sequenced architecture roadmap. - Establish architectural principles, standards, and guardrails across services, APIs, data, and integration layers, and ensure they are consistently applied. - Evaluate new technologies, platforms, and patterns (cloud-native, data, AI/agentic where relevant) that keep the platform future-ready and competitively differentiated. - Make and own architectural trade-off calls that balance paying down technical debt against the pace of new capability delivery. Cross-Functional & Business Alignment - Partner closely with the CTO, Engineering and Product leadership, and business stakeholders to keep platform architecture aligned with product strategy and market direction. - Represent core platform architecture in leadership forums, bringing a technical lens to business and product decisions. - Assess build-vs-buy, platform consolidation, and modernisation choices through a business-outcomes lens, not just a technical one. - Engage with customers and internal stakeholders as needed to validate that architectural direction holds up against real-world use cases. Talent Development & Mentorship - Inspire and mentor senior engineers, tech leads, and architects across the organisation raising the overall quality of technical thinking and decision-making. - Build structured mechanisms for coaching and knowledge-sharing design reviews, architecture forums/guilds, RFC and ADR processes that scale good architectural practice beyond any one team. - Act as a magnet for senior IC talent: create a visible, credible technical growth path that improves engagement and retention of high-potential engineers. - Champion engineering best practices design reviews, architecture decision records, documentation, and code quality as habits, not one-off exercises. Hands-On Technical Leadership - Stay hands-on: prototype, review designs and code, and work directly alongside teams on the platform’s hardest problems. - Lead resolution of the most complex, cross-cutting architectural challenges such as scale, reliability, data consistency, and security. - Set up lightweight governance (architecture review forums, a technology radar) that keeps the platform coherent as teams and services multiply. Required Skills & Experience Technical Background - 14–20 years of overall software engineering experience, with a significant and recent track record in architecture and technical leadership roles on large-scale, multi-tenant SaaS platforms. - Proven experience owning target-state or reference architecture for a platform of meaningful scale and complexity. - Strong, credible hands-on background across modern technology stacks (e.g., Java/.NET, cloud-native services, microservices, distributed systems) deep enough to earn the respect of senior engineers. - Solid understanding of database technologies (SQL & NoSQL) and system design trade-offs at scale. - Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and cloud-native architecture practices. - Familiarity with AI/ML and agentic architecture patterns (e.g., RAG, LLM orchestration, vector search) is a strong plus, given LeadSquared’s growing AI-native roadmap. Leadership & Influence - Demonstrated ability to mentor and elevate senior engineers and architects without formal reporting authority — leading through influence and credibility. - Excellent communication skills; able to explain architectural rationale clearly to the CTO, business leaders, and, where needed, customers. - Strong stakeholder management, able to balance the sometimes-competing needs of product, business, and engineering. - Genuine interest in coaching and teaching, with a track record of building technical culture that improves the quality and retention of senior talent. Why LeadSquared? - Shape the target-state architecture of a global SaaS platform used by thousands of enterprises. - A high-ownership, high-visibility role reporting directly to the CTO, with the freedom to set technical direction. - The opportunity to build a lasting technical legacy both in the platform’s architecture and in the engineers you mentor. - Competitive compensation and the chance to work at the intersection of core platform, product, and emerging AI capabilities. Job Snapshot Updated Date 06-10-2026 Job ID Job_423 Sub-Division Platform core Engg. Location Bangalore, Karnataka, India Experience 14 - 20 Years Employee Type Full Time Employee Sub Type Full Time
Наблюдалась 2026-10-07, впервые 2026-10-06, источник — Indeed.