Principal Engineer - Cloud Architect

About the role

Stryker is looking for a Principal Engineer - Cloud Architect in Gurugram, with hybrid or onsite work flexibility. The role owns end-to-end cloud architecture, from requirements and solution design through development, deployment, production support and continuous improvement, and provides technical leadership across development teams.

Key responsibilities

• Define architecture principles, technology standards and reusable patterns for scalable, secure, highly available, maintainable and cost-effective cloud solutions.
• Lead architecture, design and code reviews, resolve complex performance, scalability, security and integration issues, and mentor engineers.
• Partner with Marketing, Systems and other stakeholders, develop proof-of-concepts, evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and assess architectural trade-offs.
• Drive engineering excellence across Agile delivery, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, security architecture, cost estimation, risk management, privacy, quality and regulatory compliance, and contribute to training, hiring and research.

Required profile

• 14+ years of overall software-development experience, including 8+ years of cloud-architecture experience delivering and operating large-scale cloud products in production.
• BS-level technical degree or equivalent experience, preferably in Computer Science or Engineering; Master's degree desired.
• Experience architecting highly available, large-scale enterprise applications on public, private and hybrid clouds, with strong Microsoft Azure expertise and exposure to AWS and Google Cloud.
• Architectural certification with one or more public cloud providers (Azure, AWS or GCP).
• Strong architecture, analytical, communication and presentation skills, with Agile experience.

Required skills

• C#.NET/.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC/Core, REST APIs, microservices, Windows Services, and multiple programming languages.
• API management, event-driven architecture, messaging, asynchronous processing, Kubernetes, Docker, service discovery, secrets management, serverless, RabbitMQ and Redis.
• React.js/Angular/Vue.js, SQL, PostgreSQL, Entity Framework, Git, unit testing and PowerShell.
• DevOps and cloud operations: automated CI/CD, environment provisioning, configuration management, deployment strategies, logging, monitoring, tracing, alerting and dashboards.
• Preferred: HL7 and DICOM protocols, data analytics tools, open-source contributions and travel of about 10%.