Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about your path from engineering into architecture?
- Which system you designed are you most proud of, and what problem did it solve?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- How do you decide between building on managed cloud services versus running components yourself?
- Walk us through how you design an integration between two systems that were never meant to talk to each other.
- How do you factor security and compliance requirements into an architecture from day one?
- Tell us about a design decision of yours that turned out to be wrong. How did you discover and correct it?
- How do you keep architecture documentation useful and current as systems evolve?
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a time engineers pushed back hard on your proposed design. How did you handle it?
- How do you explain a complex architectural trade-off to a non-technical executive?
- Describe a situation where business pressure conflicted with technical best practice. What did you do?
Problem-solving / case
- We need to migrate a monolithic application to the cloud with minimal downtime. Outline your approach.
- A customer wants our product integrated with their legacy on-premise systems. How would you scope the solution?
- Cloud costs have doubled in six months without matching growth in usage. How do you investigate and fix it?
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