Sourceo Hiring! Full Time Principal Lead in - Ricebowl

Job Description

Role Mission:

• Define and drive the enterprise middleware strategy aligned to business goals, cloud adoption, API-first architecture, and integration modernization.
• Set architectural standards, design patterns, and best practices across APIs, integration, messaging, and event platforms; ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and resilient.
• Ensure high availability, observability, performance, and operational readiness of middleware platforms in production, meeting SLAs for mission-critical systems.
• Lead modernization initiatives (legacy to cloud, monolith to microservices, on-prem to Kubernetes), evaluate new technologies, and continuously improve platform capabilities.
• Coach architects and engineers, influence cross-functional teams, and work closely with business, security, infrastructure, and vendors to deliver high-impact integration outcomes.

Accountabilities

• Middleware Platform Ownership

• Architecture Governance & Standards

• Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Transformation & Modernization Execution

• People, Stakeholder & Vendor Leadership

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, review, and approval of middleware solutions, ensuring compliance with enterprise architecture, security standards, and non-functional requirements.

• Work closely with delivery teams to plan, prioritize, and execute API, integration, and messaging initiatives, providing hands-on guidance for complex or high-risk implementations.

• Oversee production readiness, capacity planning, DR strategies, and support models; act as the highest technical escalation point for middleware incidents and issues.

• Assess middleware products, cloud services, and open-source technologies; provide recommendations for adoption, replacement, or optimization based on cost, risk, and scalability.

• Establish best practices for DevSecOps, CI/CD, automation, documentation, and knowledge sharing; coach teams to improve engineering maturity and delivery consistency.

Team Scope/ Stakeholders:

• Provide technical leadership and direction to middleware engineers, senior engineers, and solution architects across multiple delivery squads and platforms.

• Collaborate closely with Enterprise Architecture, Application Development, Cloud & Infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, Security, and Network teams to deliver integrated, end-to-end solutions.

• Work with L2/L3 support, NOC, and ITSM teams to ensure operational readiness, incident resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement.

Minimum Profile/ Track Record:

• 8–12+ years of experience in enterprise middleware, integration, or platform engineering roles, with at least 5+ years in a senior technical leadership or principal architect capacity.

• Proven track record of designing and running large-scale middleware platforms covering API management, ESB/integration, messaging, and event-driven architectures in complex, high-volume environments.

• Demonstrated success leading legacy-to-cloud migrations, monolith to microservices transitions, and middleware modernization initiatives using cloud-native and container-based platforms.

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