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With 2200+ employees and continued investments over 25 years in India, ZEISS’ success story in India is continuing at a rapid pace.\nFurther information at ZEISS India.\nThe Role\nAs Solution Architect, you will own the technical architecture of the VisioGen platform and build it alongside the team. You will design the system, contribute production code, set engineering standards, and help grow the team that scales the platform across clinics worldwide.\nThe role acts as a bridge between business teams, product teams, engineering, IT, customer success, and external clinic partners, turning business needs into practical, secure, and scalable technology solutions.\nThis is a hands-on architecture role. A significant part of your time will go into design, coding, code reviews, and proofs of concept, alongside technical leadership. 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Own the Platform Architecture\nDesign and evolve the end-to-end architecture of VisioGen: patient chat interface, AI response generation, human clinical review, clinic escalation, analytics, and integrations.\nBuild cloud-native .NET Core microservices on Azure (AKS, App Services/Functions, Service Bus, Azure SQL/Cosmos DB, Entra ID, Key Vault, API Management).\nDesign the product security-first and for multiple geographies, covering multi-tenancy, scale, reliability, performance, and cost as we grow from tens to thousands of clinics.\nConvert business and customer requirements into clear technical solution designs and efficient, event-driven frameworks.\nMake and document architecture decisions (ADRs), and run design reviews.\nDrive platform extensibility and integrations with practice-management systems, EHRs/EMRs, and patient channels such as WhatsApp, web chat, LINE, Viber, and Facebook Messenger.\nEnsure release reliability (quality, uptime, latency, incident reduction) against measurable SLAs/SLOs.\n2. Optimize and Scale the AI Engine\nDesign with AI leads to optimize and scale production GenAI pipelines: RAG (chunking, embeddings, hybrid search, reranking), agentic workflows (tool calling, orchestration, state), prompt management, and model routing.\nStrengthen AI quality through robust evaluations and approaches that improve explainability and accuracy while keeping latency low.\nDesign human-in-the-loop verification into the architecture: review queues, confidence thresholds, escalation, and audit trails.\nOptimize token costs and the operating cost of AI workloads.\n3. Drive an AI-Native SDLC\nMake AI-assisted engineering the default: coding agents (GitHub Copilot), spec-driven development, AI-assisted testing and code review.\nDefine, get closely involved in, and continuously improve an optimized spec → code → test → release → operations workflow.\nSet coding standards, design goodness measurements , testing strategy, and the quality bar the team works to.\n4. Full-Stack Ownership & Integrations\nGuide, optimize, and harden VisioGen's engagement layer built on React / TypeScript: patient chat widget, clinic dashboards, and reviewer consoles.\nDesign a plug-and-play integration architecture for diverse, multi-region APIs, webhooks, FHIR contracts, and events across clinic websites, EHRs, CRMs, scheduling, and marketing tools, in full compliance with quality, data-privacy (HIPAA/GDPR), and PHI-protection requirements at rest and in transit.\n5. Release Management & ZEISS Software Development Process\nEstablish an efficient commercial release process that meets ZEISS's software delivery gating requirements.\nOwn CI/CD and environment strategy using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, including versioning, feature flags, and safe rollout and rollback.\nDefine release dependencies, branching, and merge strategy.\nEnable high-velocity development through continuous delivery, with measurable metrics (including but not limited to DORA), low risk, and fast feedback loops.\nCollaborate with ZEISS Central IT to align architecture approaches and partner solutions with ZEISS-approved, compliant setups.\n6. Security & Compliance by Design\nBuild HIPAA-aligned data flows (with GDPR and global readiness as applicable): PHI handling, encryption, access control, data retention, and audit logging.\nRepresent the architecture in ZEISS IT, InfoSec, and compliance reviews, and produce the data-flow and threat-model documents they require.\n7. Build and Mentor the Team\nHelp shape the engineering team's structure, roles, and hiring.\nMentor engineers on architecture, distributed systems, and AI engineering, and grow technical leaders within the team.\nPartner with product to judge feasibility, estimate work, and shape the roadmap.\n8. Cross-Functional Collaboration\nCollaborate with sales, customer success, doctors, clinical operations, engineering, product, IT, and external clinic stakeholders.\nAct as the technical owner during clinic implementations and post-go-live stabilization.\nExplain technical capabilities and trade-offs clearly to non-technical audiences, including clinicians and business leaders.\nWhat You Bring\nMust-Have\n12-20 years in software engineering, with 5+ years designing and scaling distributed systems or SaaS products in production.\nDeep, recent hands-on experience with .NET Core / C#.\nStrong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services for building and running production systems.\nHands-on GenAI delivery: you have personally built and shipped RAG and/or agentic systems to production, not only advised on them.\nMicroservices, containers, event-driven services and Kubernetes (AKS preferred), plus CI/CD and release management.\nPractical use of AI-assisted development tools in your own 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