Deputy Manager | Technical Architect | Hyderabad | Engineering as a Service/ Operate

A Day in the Life

In this role, you will design and evolve systems that power the end-to-end rental lifecycle—including reservations, pricing engines, fleet allocation, counter workflows, customer identity, and mobile booking journeys. You will work across a highly distributed environment supporting multi-brand, multi-country, and franchise operations with complex regulatory and operational requirements.

Your day will involve working closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to translate business needs into scalable, resilient, and secure system designs. You will lead architecture discussions, review designs and code, define API contracts, and ensure alignment across multiple engineering teams.

You will play a key role in modernizing legacy systems into cloud-native, microservices-based, and event-driven architectures, ensuring high availability, performance, and extensibility. You will also guide teams on adopting best practices around observability, fault tolerance, and CI/CD pipelines.

A significant portion of your time will be spent mentoring engineers, influencing technical decisions, and ensuring consistency across platform architecture, while balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term strategic goals.

What You Will Do

• Define and own end-to-end architecture across Rental (RAC) and Digital platforms, including backend services, APIs, and frontend integrations

• Design and implement cloud-native architectures using microservices, serverless patterns, and distributed systems

• Establish and govern API-first design principles and integration patterns across systems (REST, GraphQL, event streaming)

• Drive adoption of event-driven architecture (Kafka or equivalent) to enable scalable, loosely coupled systems

• Lead architecture for key platform capabilities including:

o Reservations and booking orchestration

o Pricing and rules engines