Senior Lead Software Architect

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Overview

Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes and defense, space and security systems. We are engineers and technicians. Skilled scientists and thinkers. Bold innovators and dreamers. Join us, and you can build something better for yourself, for our customers and for the world.

As a leading global aerospace company, Boeing develops, manufactures and services commercial airplanes, defense products and space systems for customers in more than 150 countries. As a top U.S. exporter, the company leverages the talents of a global supplier base to advance economic opportunity, sustainability and community impact. Boeing’s team is committed to innovating for the future, leading with sustainability, and cultivating a culture based on the company’s core values of safety, quality and integrity.

Technology for today and tomorrow

The Boeing India Engineering & Technology Center (BIETC) is a 5500+ engineering workforce that contributes to global aerospace growth. Our engineers deliver cutting-edge R&D, innovation, and high-quality engineering work in global markets, and leverage new-age technologies such as AI/ML, IIoT, Cloud, Model-Based Engineering, and Additive Manufacturing, shaping the future of aerospace.

People-driven culture

At Boeing, we believe creativity and innovation thrives when every employee is trusted, empowered, and has the flexibility to choose, grow, learn, and explore. We offer variable arrangements depending upon business and customer needs, and professional pursuits that offer greater flexibility in the way our people work. We also believe that collaboration, frequent team engagements, and face-to-face meetings bring together different perspectives and thoughts - enabling every voice to be heard and every perspective to be respected. No matter where or how our teammates work, we are committed to positively shaping people’s careers and being thoughtful about employee wellbeing.

With us, you can create and contribute to what matters most in your career, community, country, and world. Join us in powering the progress of global aerospace.

Position Overview:

Boeing Digital Services org is currently looking for a Senior Lead Software Architect to join the team in Bangalore, IN. This role is expected to will own the end-to-end delivery of a product capability, helping design the solution and leading a small team of developers to build it. You will work closely with Product, Design, and Technical Leads to understand the holistic vision and strategy of the product, and partner with a Product Manager and Designer to help deliver on product goals. You will work closely with Developers, Engineering, Greenfield Leadership, Data Science, and Systems Architects to deliver product features and capabilities that keep AI and ML at the center of our solutions. You will be helping create new product offerings as well as modernizing systems that have been running the business for years, while building new ones designed to run it for years to come.

Position Responsibilities:

You'll own the technical scope for your product capability, shaping the architecture, driving implementation, and planning delivery with your team. That looks like:

• Building full-stack, production-grade, cloud-native applications: frontend interfaces, backend services, APIs, and the integrations that connect them across complex enterprise environments.

• Writing and reviewing code across multiple languages and paradigms.

• Designing event-driven and microservices architectures that can scale, evolve, and be operated by teams beyond the ones that built them.

• Integrating AI, ML or LLM capabilities into your product.

• Implementing CI/CD pipelines and delivery automation that give teams the confidence to ship frequently.

• Experience architecting production ML systems that deploy, scale, and integrate models developed by Data Scientists.

• Strong understanding of MLOps practices, including model versioning, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and rollback.

• Experience designing model-serving infrastructure for batch, real-time, and streaming use cases.

• Ability to define scalable end-to-end ML architectures across data, features, models, and downstream applications.

• Experience establishing operational standards for observability, reliability, governance, and performance of models in production.

• Making day-to-day architecture decisions within your product and escalating the right ones to the leadership team when they have broader implications.

• Identifying technical risk early and surfacing it clearly before it becomes a delivery problem.

• Generating ideas, failing fast, and demonstrating with key stakeholders.

• Driving knowledge sharing across teams and the broader technical group.

Leadership Skills and Competencies:

• Business Acumen: Have knowledge of Aerospace and Aviation business, policies, practices, trends, and information related to the marketplace.

• Communication: Using a variety of media, clearly conveys information and ideas to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.

• Innovation / Creativity: Discovers new opportunities and solutions for problems by looking beyond current practices and using innovative thinking. Tries different and novel ways to deal with work problems and opportunities.

• Design Concepts & Technique: Advanced knowledge of software design concepts and techniques

• Systems Thinking: Ability to understand the big picture and the inter-relationships between components of systems and plans, anticipate future events, and apply the principles of systems thinking to accelerate performance.

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor’s degree is required as basic qualification.
• 15+ years relevant experience in software development including full-stack web development, experience with modern software product development, integration, and delivery

• Experience integrating AI, ML, or LLM capabilities into software applications.

• Deep understanding of architectural styles like microservices, event-driven systems, monoliths, and serverless computing.

• Excellent programming skills in the latest tools & technology frameworks like JavaScript, JQuery, Java/J2EE, Azure App Services / Functions, Microservices etc.

• Must have experience with Spring Boot Framework, REST based Web Services and SOA

• Experience in Object Oriented Analysis and Design using Java and UML. Must have experience using Software Design Patterns, Standards and Best Practices within the industry.

• Experience with Azure Policy, Azure Security Center, Azure AD + Conditional Access, App services, AKS, AzureAD, KeyStore, Managed SQL Services, App Monitoring, Azure DevOps is highly preferrable

• Azure Application Development or support experiences with Azure PaaS services (Redis Cache, Azure Blob, RabitMQ, Cloud Service, etc.)

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, automated testing, version control, and delivery practices that support reliable and frequent software releases.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Experience in Aerospace and/or Aviation domain is preferred

• Knowledge of Aircraft Maintenance and/or MRO Operations is a plus

• An advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related discipline is preferred (particularly for candidates with experience in applied algorithms, AI/ML, or advanced system design).

• Experience with modern cloud platforms and application delivery tooling, such as container orchestration, infrastructure as code, observability tools, and automated deployment pipelines.

• Experience designing, building, testing, and maintaining scalable cloud-native applications.

• Experience working in complex enterprise environments with distributed systems, legacy modernization, multi-team dependencies, and integrated data or application ecosystems.

• Experience making architecture tradeoff decisions balancing scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, latency, cost, and delivery speed.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across Product, Design, Engineering, and Operations to translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical solutions and measurable outcomes.

• Demonstrated ability to coach and uplift other engineers through pairing, code review, technical mentorship, and knowledge sharing.

Typical Education & Experience:

• Education/experience typically acquired through advanced education (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 16 + years’ related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience (e.g. Master 15+ Years ) related in computer science, aerospace or other closely related field.

Relocation:

This position does offer relocation within INDIA.

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