Senior Principal IT Systems & Solution Architect

About the role

Alcon is looking for a Senior Principal IT Systems & Solution Architect to lead the Digital Engineering team in Bangalore. You will guide the design, development, and maintenance of scalable software solutions that improve patient outcomes and support the company’s vision of brilliant eye care.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of developers.
• Collaborate with Product teams and Solution Architects to define and release new features.
• Architect, design, and implement micro‑services‑based solutions using Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, JPA/Hibernate.
• Ensure security best practices and high‑performance backend services.
• Champion quality engineering through unit testing, code reviews, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Leverage AWS cloud services for infrastructure and deployment.

Required profile

• Extensive experience in software engineering and architecture, preferably in a senior or principal role.
• Strong background in Java and modern web development frameworks.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor technical teams.
• Deep understanding of micro‑services, scalability, performance, and security.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms, especially AWS.

Required skills

• Java
• Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud
• JPA / Hibernate
• Microservices architecture
• AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.)
• CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Unit testing and code review practices
• SQL and relational databases