Technical Architect

Ramco Systems

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Technical Architect - Platforms

RAMCO CONGLOMERATE

Ramco Systems is part of the $1 billion+ diversified Ramco Group, a legacy enterprise with deep roots in industries such as cement, textiles, engineering, software, energy, and biotech. With over 75 years of heritage and innovation, the Ramco Group is a global powerhouse that blends traditional business values with modern technologies.

Ramco Systems is the Group’s technology arm, delivering next-gen enterprise software across Global Payroll, HR, Aviation MRO, ERP, and Logistics. Headquartered in Chennai, India, Ramco serves over 1,000 customers across 35+ countries and is recognized for its AI/ML-based, bot-enabled, and cloud-native solutions.

Our platform is designed for digital operations—trusted by governments, Fortune 500 companies, and high-growth enterprises alike.

If you’re looking to be part of a company that combines innovation, global exposure, and a mission to disrupt legacy systems with intelligent enterprise applications—Ramco is the place to be.

ROLE OVERVIEW

The Technical Architect – Platform is a core technical anchor, driving the architectural evolution of Ramco’s multi-tier SaaS platform across Global Payroll, HR, Aviation MRO, ERP, and Logistics.

You will architect and deliver resilient APIs, microservices, and platform services that support complex enterprise customer scenarios, while materially improving deployment velocity, system reliability, and low-latency performance.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role, not a management one. Influence comes from the quality of the systems you design and the engineers you raise — setting the standard for clean code, robust systems thinking, and long-term ownership, and turning business intent into software that holds up under enterprise load.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Architecture & Roadmap Execution

Own and deliver the technical roadmap for your engineering domain.
Design, document, and execute scalable, cost-efficient, low-latency platform solutions.
Partner with Architecture, Product Management, Design, QA, Operations, and Customer Success to translate business vision into integrated, high-performing software.Hands-On Platform Development
Write clean, maintainable, high-performance code — building APIs and core platform features that scale with Ramco’s global growth.
Build and evolve microservices and web-layer platform capabilities for complex enterprise scenarios.System Health & Technical Debt
Identify critical architectural bottlenecks and accumulated technical debt.
Design and drive practical, iterative refactoring plans without compromising business delivery.Operational Excellence & Production Leadership
Take ownership of complex production issues in distributed SaaS environments.
Drive deep-dive root cause analysis and implement permanent preventive safeguards.Engineering Quality & Standards
Establish rigorous engineering standards through code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD pipeline integration.
Continuously raise the quality bar across the domain rather than policing it case by case.Mentorship & Talent Development
Coach and develop engineers across functions, elevating problem-solving, systems thinking, and operational discipline.
Act as a technical role model for clean coding standards and long-term product ownership.Security & Compliance
Ensure platform designs and engineering practices align with Ramco’s information security standards and regulatory compliance obligations.
Build security and compliance considerations into design, not into remediation.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

Platform services that hold latency and availability targets as customer load grows.
Releases that ship faster and more safely than they did a year ago.
Technical debt addressed steadily rather than deferred until it forces a rewrite.
Production incidents that do not recur, because the fix addressed the cause.
Engineers around you who design better systems than they did before you arrived.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

12 to 15 years of hands-on software engineering and systems or platform engineering experience in modern distributed SaaS environments.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Expert-level mastery of Java (Spring / Spring Boot) or Python for high-scale backend services.
Deep proficiency in multi-tier application architecture, microservices design, RESTful APIs, messaging queues, and database layer optimisation.
Exceptional command of data structures, algorithms, advanced object-oriented programming, and design patterns.
Advanced knowledge of Linux internals, production debugging, log analysis, and system telemetry in distributed cloud and SaaS environments.
Strong experience with CI/CD automation, unit and integration testing frameworks, and writing clean, maintainable code with minimal abstraction.
Proven track record owning end-to-end architecture and technical strategy for large-scale products or core platform infrastructure.
Demonstrated history of building, shipping, and maintaining high-availability, low-latency, high-throughput systems under demanding release schedules.
Extensive experience influencing multi-disciplinary teams — Product, QA, Operations, Design — to reach consensus and alignment.
Excellent written and verbal communication, able to articulate complex technical trade-offs to both technical panels and executive stakeholders.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience with cloud-native platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and container orchestration.
Exposure to event-driven architectures such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
Experience with enterprise domains such as payroll, HCM, ERP, aviation MRO, or logistics.
Familiarity with AI/ML-enabled platform capabilities in an enterprise SaaS context.

WHY JOIN RAMCO SYSTEMS

Shape the architecture of a platform serving over 1,000 customers across 35+ countries.
Deep technical scope across APIs, microservices, and distributed systems at enterprise scale.
A senior engineering track where influence comes from systems and mentorship, not headcount.
Be part of a fast-evolving, innovation-led enterprise software company.

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