Principal Engineer / Architect

JOB TITLE: Principal Engineer / Architect 
LOCATION: New Delhi, India 
EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full-Time 
VERTICAL: Technology / IES Architecture & Accelerator 
REPORTS TO: Chief Technology Architect  
ABOUT FSR GLOBAL 
FSR Global supports clean energy transitions in the Global South by bringing strategy, engineering, and markets together to solve real energy-transition challenges—through capability building, structured dialogues, and proof-of-concept work that enables adoption at scale. 

 ROLE SUMMARY 
The Principal Engineer/Architect is a senior technical leader who owns architecture coherence across products and platforms, shapes organisation-wide technical decisions, and drives execution for critical initiatives. This is not purely an Individual Contributor role: you will set direction, establish standards, mentor engineers, and operate as a trusted technical counterpart to programme leadership, partners, and stakeholders—while still staying close to the ground and actual implementation when needed. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES  

Architecture & Technical Direction 

• Architect solutions at System Level for country scale problems. 

• Own end-to-end architecture across key platforms (APIs, data models, integration patterns, security, reliability). 

• Define system boundaries, contracts, and reference architectures that enable interoperability, modularity, and phased adoption. 

• Establish engineering standards for API design, schema governance, versioning, observability, and secure-by-default patterns. 

Org-Level Decision Making & Governance 

• Drive technical trade-offs with clarity (build vs buy, centralized vs federated, speed vs safety) and document decisions. 

• Chair design reviews for high-impact projects; ensure architectural consistency across teams and vendors. 

• Create a pragmatic technology roadmap aligned to programme outcomes and stakeholder realities (utilities, operators, regulators, ecosystem partners). 

Execution Leadership 

• Lead or unblock delivery of mission-critical initiatives (platform foundations, registries/identity, sandbox environments, reference implementations). 

• Set quality bars and operating rhythms (SLOs, incident response patterns, release discipline, security reviews). 

• Build strong engineering culture: mentoring, feedback, hiring inputs, and growth pathways for senior engineers. 

External & Cross-Functional Leadership 

• Represent architecture and technical intent in multi-stakeholder forums; translate complexity for non-technical audiences. 

• Partner with policy/research/programme teams to ensure designs are implementable, adoptable, and auditable. 

QUALIFICATIONS 
 Education 

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required. 

Experience and Skills 

• 12+ years building and scaling production software; 4+ years leading architecture across multiple systems/teams. 

• Strong system design fundamentals: distributed systems, API-first design, data modeling, security, performance, reliability. 

• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority: aligning stakeholders, documenting decisions, setting standards. 

• Experience with cloud-native architecture and platform engineering (CI/CD, observability, infrastructure as code, automated testing). 

• Familiarity and hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., LLMs, coding copilots, automated testing/analysis assistants) to improve engineering productivity, quality, and documentation. 

• Bonus: experience with public infrastructure / DPI-style systems, interoperability standards, regulated environments, or energy/utility integrations. 

• Nice to have: experience working on ML/AI or Big Data applications (e.g., data pipelines, analytics platforms, model deployment/serving). 

WHAT WE OFFER 

• Mission-driven work advancing clean energy transitions in the Global South. 

• A collaborative, high-trust team environment with access to a global network of senior energy experts. 

• Professional development through exposure to cutting-edge energy policy, regulation, and market design work. 

• Competitive compensation and hybrid working arrangements aligned to role requirements. 

• An inclusive culture that values rigor, initiative, and collective responsibility, with an organisation-wide winter break. 

TO APPLY 
Please apply for the position using the link below.