Senior Software Architect at NTT Data

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Level: senior
Posted: Sep 30, 2026

Description

NTT DATA is hiring a Senior Software Architect in Charlotte, North Carolina to lead the design and evolution of mission-critical, high-scale distributed platforms. The role focuses on scalable APIs, Python and Java services, MongoDB deployments, reliability and resiliency, performance and observability, cloud-native operations, and cross-functional technical leadership. Candidates need 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant architecture or technical leadership experience, plus 8+ years architecting large-scale distributed systems and 8+ years of hands-on Python and Java development.

Required Skills

API development
MongoDB
Python
Java
Distributed systems
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Observability

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant software architecture or technical leadership experience
8+ years architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems with high throughput, availability, and SLA requirements
8+ years of hands-on Python and Java development experience
Extensive enterprise-scale MongoDB experience
Experience with cloud-native architectures, containerization, CI/CD, and production operations
Experience leading technical design discussions and influencing cross-functional stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications: Experience building platforms in regulated, financial, telecommunications, healthcare, or other SLA-critical environments
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, service mesh, API gateways, and infrastructure-as-code
Experience with event streaming or messaging platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
Experience with caching technologies such as Redis
Familiarity with security architecture, secrets management, encryption, OWASP practices, and identity/access management
Experience modernizing legacy Python or Java platforms into scalable, cloud-native services
Experience leading teams through major platform migrations or reliability improvement programs
Translation Company Name: NTT Data