Production Validation Architect (ID: 4117)

As a Production Validation Architect (Lead), you will:

• Lead Blue-Green and production validation assessments across complex, interconnected applications.
  
• Evaluate hosting, parallel deployments, test-user routing, database compatibility, integrations, cutover, and rollback.
  
• Conduct workshops with application teams, vendors, and partners to assess application readiness and identify technical constraints.
  
• Define reference architecture, release orchestration, testing workflows, implementation roadmap, and risk mitigation strategies.
  
• Guide engineering teams as the architecture design authority throughout implementation.
  

What You Bring to the Table:

• 12+ years of experinece in software delivery, including at least 5 years as a Solution, Platform, or Release Architect.
  
• Proven experience designing and implementing Blue-Green, Canary, or similar production release strategies.
  
• Strong knowledge of API gateways, load balancers, Kubernetes ingress, service mesh, header/cookie-based routing, and feature flags.
  
• Expertise in zero-downtime database migrations, backward-compatible schema changes, and shared databases.
  
• Experience with API integrations, message queues, event-driven architectures, file/batch interfaces, Kubernetes, VM-based infrastructure, and SaaS applications.
  

You should possess the ability to:

• Assess end-to-end customer journeys, application dependencies, production readiness, and integration risks.
  
• Design secure test-user routing and release workflows covering deployment, validation, approval, cutover, monitoring, and rollback.
  
• Classify applications as ready, adaptable, or unsuitable and recommend practical remediation options.
  
• Prepare architecture documentation, risk assessments, and roadmaps, and present recommendations to senior stakeholders.
  
• Communicate technical limitations and trade-offs clearly while guiding teams toward reliable implementation.
  

What We Bring to the Table:

• The opportunity to lead enterprise-scale production validation and release architecture initiatives.
  
• The ability to shape deployment standards, improve production reliability, and minimise release risks.
  
• Collaboration with senior stakeholders, application teams, vendors, and engineering partners throughout assessment and implementation.
  

Let’s Connect

Want to discuss this opportunity in more detail? Feel free to reach out.

Recruiter: Asha Krishnan
Phone: +31 20 369 0609 ; Extn :146
Email: asha.k@stafide.nl
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashakrishnan07/