Senior Technical Architect

About the role

TransPerfect is seeking a hands‑on Senior Technical Architect to own the end‑to‑end architecture of a flagship enterprise SaaS product. You will set technical vision, evolve multi‑tier reference architecture, and drive modernisation while remaining an individual contributor on the toughest engineering challenges.

Key responsibilities

• Define and evolve reference architecture, target‑state blueprints and technology roadmap across UI, API, microservices, data, messaging, caching and cloud infrastructure.
• Translate complex business requirements into clear technical solutions and decision records.
• Establish architecture principles, design patterns, coding standards and chair the architecture review board.
• Drive modernisation initiatives such as framework upgrades, containerisation, observability, zero‑trust networking and platform consolidation.
• Design for scale, resilience, multi‑tenancy and data residency; define SLOs/SLAs with SRE and product teams.
• Prototype critical components, write reference implementations and own production code for high‑impact problems.
• Design and review RESTful, event‑driven and async APIs, define service contracts and integration patterns.
• Architect data models, schema‑evolution, indexing, partitioning and archival on primary RDBMS; define caching strategies.
• Define UI architecture for SPA, including module structure, lazy loading, state management, design‑system adoption and accessibility.
• Own cloud landing zone, networking, identity, secrets management, managed databases, monitoring and cost governance.
• Implement security architecture aligned with ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and embed security‑by‑design across all layers.

Required profile

• Extensive experience designing and delivering large‑scale SaaS platforms.
• Strong ability to balance build‑vs‑buy and monolith‑vs‑microservice trade‑offs.
• Proven track record of leading architecture review processes and setting technical standards.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and ability to prototype complex solutions.

Required skills

• Microservices architecture
• RESTful and event‑driven APIs (async)
• Cloud infrastructure (public‑cloud landing zone)
• Containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Observability and monitoring
• Zero‑trust networking
• RDBMS design and schema evolution
• Caching strategies
• Messaging systems (topics, queues, dead‑letter handling)
• SPA UI architecture, design‑system adoption and accessibility
• Security‑by‑design (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR compliance)