TransPerfect
OVERVIEW TransPerfect helps organizations navigate the global marketplace. Founder-led for more than three decades, the company has grown organically into the world's largest translation and language services provider, with thousands of employees across 100+ offices and over $1B in annual revenue. The TransPerfect TechOps team has been a vital part of the company's success since its formation over a decade ago - delivering technology and services that have drastically simplified the lives of our clients and colleagues, from workflow improvements for colleagues to core platform services and scalable client-facing applications. About this role: We are looking for a hands-on Senior Technical Architect to own the end-to-end architecture of one of our flagship enterprise SaaS products. You will set the technical vision, evolve the multi-tier reference architecture, drive modernisation initiatives, and partner with product, security and SRE leaders to scale the platform across new tenants, geographies and compliance regimes - while remaining a strong individual contributor on the hardest engineering problems. DESCRIPTION Own the end-to-end technical architecture of the product across UI, API, microservices, data, messaging, caching and cloud infrastructure. Define and continuously evolve the reference architecture, target-state blueprints and technology roadmap; balance build-vs-buy and monolith-vs-microservice trade-offs. Translate complex business requirements into clear, well-scoped technical solutions and decision records. Establish architecture principles, design patterns, coding standards and review gates; chair the architecture review board and approve high-impact designs. Drive modernisation initiatives - framework upgrades, containerisation, observability, zero-trust networking and platform consolidation. Design for scale, resilience, multi-tenancy and data residency; define SLOs/SLAs together with SRE and product. Remain a strong individual contributor: prototype critical components, write reference implementations and own production code for the toughest problems. Design and review APIs (RESTful, event-driven and async); define service contracts and integration patterns. Architect data models, schema-evolution strategies, indexing, partitioning and archival on the primary RDBMS; tune slow paths and define caching strategies. Design event flows on the messaging backbone - topics, queues, dead-letter handling, idempotency and replay. Define UI architecture patterns for the SPA - module structure, lazy loading, state management, design-system adoption and accessibility. Own the cloud landing zone - networking, identity, secrets management, storage, managed databases, monitoring and cost governance. Define security architecture aligned with ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and other applicable regimes; embed security-by-design across every layer. Drive secrets hygiene, encryption-at-rest and in-transit, key rotation and least-privilege access across the estate. Partner with Information Security on threat modelling, vulnerability management, penetration test remediation and audit response. Architect integrations with third-party systems, payment gateways and identity providers via APIs, webhooks, file-based batch and event streams. Define and uphold CI/CD pipelines, branching strategy and release management across the .NET, front-end and Linux microservice estates. Establish observability standards - structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing and alerting - across the stack. Drive automated testing strategy (unit, integration, contract, performance, security) and define quality gates and code-coverage targets with QA leads. Lead production incident response for architecture-level issues; conduct blameless post-mortems and convert findings into durable design changes. Provide architectural guidance to multiple squads of full-stack engineers, team leads and senior engineers; act as the ultimate technical escalation point. Mentor and grow architects, leads and senior engineers; raise the technical bar through reviews, design clinics and brown-bag sessions. Partner with Product Management on roadmap shaping, effort sizing, sequencing and feasibility of new capabilities. REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE 20+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a formal Architect role on a production SaaS product. Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics or a related field; MCA/BCA also considered. Demonstrated track record of architecting and scaling a multi-tier, multi-tenant SaaS platform. Deep, production-level expertise in .NET / .NET Core, C#, ASP.NET and Web API hosted on IIS and Windows Server. Strong command of microservices architecture, RESTful API design, API versioning, contract-first design and API gateway patterns. Solid hands-on experience with event-driven and asynchronous architectures using RabbitMQ (exchanges, queues, routing, DLQs, idempotency, ordering). Hands-on experience designing and operating distributed caches with Redis. Proficiency with modern Angular (Angular 12+), TypeScript, RxJS, HTML5 and CSS3, and component-driven SPA architecture. Strong PostgreSQL skills - schema design, indexing, query optimisation, partitioning, replication and backup/restore on a managed-database service. Hands-on Microsoft Azure experience - networking (VNet, NSG, Private Link, VPN), Azure Blob Storage, Azure Key Vault, Managed PostgreSQL, monitoring and cost management. Strong working knowledge of Windows Server and IIS as well as Ubuntu and NGINX for the Linux services tier. Solid grasp of TLS, certificate management, identity (OIDC / OAuth2 / SAML), RBAC and secrets management. Proficiency with Git and branching strategies, and CI/CD using Azure DevOps, GitLab CI or equivalent. Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep or ARM) and configuration management. Deep knowledge of SDLC, Agile and Scrum, with experience using Jira, Azure Boards, Confluence and similar tools. Experience defining observability standards using APM / tracing / logging tools (e.g., Application Insights, Datadog, New Relic, ELK). A strong systems-thinker with the ability to zoom from a single SQL query to multi-tier architecture without losing context. Demonstrated track record of mentoring engineers, growing technical talent and building a culture of ownership and learning.