Software Architect

Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions Office Job Description Location: Hyderabad, India Division: Analytical Instruments Group, Materials & Structural Analysis Division Organization: Semiconductor R&D About the team Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Materials and Structural Analysis Semiconductor R&D organization brings together around 400 engineers developing electron microscopy solutions and applications. Our global teams in Eindhoven, Brno, Hillsboro, Hyderabad, and Bordeaux combine expertise in hardware, software, and scientific applications to help customers make the world cleaner, healthier, and safer. Within this organization, the Cortex value stream develops software for semiconductor data workflows, including tools to organize, explore, and visualize microscopy data. We’re looking for a Software Architect to own the end-to-end technical integrity and evolution of Cortex across its frontend, services, infrastructure, and integrations. How will you make an impact? You’ll build a clear understanding of the existing Cortex architecture, document its principles and key decisions, and guide its evolution as the product and its ecosystem grow. Working with engineering teams and architects across sites, you’ll help ensure Cortex remains scalable, secure, maintainable, and cohesive across Core and Contributor applications. You’ll connect architecture decisions across frontend, backend, and DevOps, helping teams make sound trade-offs and avoid siloed designs. You’ll also coordinate with Athena, SDP, and DAP architects and technical leads to support the evolution of Central Cortex and its plugin ecosystem. What will you do? Learn, document, and communicate the current Cortex architecture, including its key components, dependencies, integrations, and constraints. Own and guide cross-stack architectural decisions across frontend applications, backend services, APIs, data, infrastructure, and deployment. Define and maintain architecture principles, standards, and patterns that support Cortex’s product and engineering needs. Shape architecture for microservices, distributed systems, REST APIs, containerized applications, and cloud and on-premise environments. Guide frontend architecture, including microfrontend and plugin approaches, Web Components, and integration across Core and Contributor applications. Ensure architecture addresses scalability, performance, resilience, maintainability, observability, and cybersecurity. Guide authentication and authorization, data architecture, and secure development practices, including SBOM, SCA, and SAST considerations. Shape CI/CD architecture and deployment practices in collaboration with development and DevOps teams. Review major technical changes and designs, identify cross-system risks, and help teams make informed trade-offs. Coordinate with Athena, SDP, and DAP architects and technical leads on integration points and shared architectural concerns. Support the evolution of Central Cortex and the Contributor plugin ecosystem. Identify and prioritize technical debt with engineering teams, and help develop a practical strategy for addressing it. Encourage cohesive decisions across frontend, backend, and DevOps, and resolve architectural gaps between teams. Communicate architectural choices and trade-offs clearly to engineers, product stakeholders, and management. Influence without direct authority, challenge designs constructively, and mentor engineers and technical leads. Regularly revisit architectural assumptions as Cortex, its user needs, and its technical environment evolve. You’ll work with a distributed, cross-functional organization that includes colleagues in Bordeaux, Hillsboro, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic. The role is based in Hyderabad and reports to the Functional Group Lead. How will you get here? Education Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Required experience and skills Significant experience designing and evolving software architectures for complex products or platforms. Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and REST/API architecture. Experience architecting containerized applications and working with Kubernetes. Experience with cloud and on-premise architecture. Strong knowledge of authentication, authorization, data architecture, scalability, and performance. Understanding of both modern frontend architecture and backend/service architecture. Experience with microfrontend or plugin architectures and Web Components. Experience designing observability and CI/CD capabilities as part of a broader system architecture. Knowledge of cybersecurity practices and tooling, including SBOM, SCA, and SAST. Strong system-thinking skills and the ability to analyze dependencies, risks, and trade-offs across a product. Experience documenting architecture, principles, decisions, and technical direction. Strong technical communication and stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to explain architecture to engineers and management. Ability to influence across teams, challenge designs constructively, and collaborate in a global or matrix organization. Excellent written and spoken English. Preferred experience Experience supporting the evolution of an established product architecture while enabling new capabilities and integrations. Experience with scientific software, imaging, data-intensive applications, or semiconductor workflows. Familiarity with enterprise platforms and integrations such as Athena, SDP, or DAP. Experience guiding technical debt strategy and mentoring engineers or technical leads. Experience working in a distributed, cross-functional Agile organization.