Enterprise Architect

About Appinventiv :

Appinventiv is a digital product agency that designs & builds new age technology helping Fortune 500 companies & next-generation start-ups to drive growth & build the future of digital inventions. We are a highly curated team of 1400+ certified developers, outside-of-the-box thinkers, lean product-first methodology, and an obsession with making game-changing mobile-based products.

Role: Enterprise Architect

Experience : 16+ Years

Location : Chandigarh / Hybrid

What you'll do :

- Define and drive enterprise-wide technology strategy and architecture roadmaps aligned with business objectives.

- Develop target-state architecture, technology standards, reference architectures, and architecture principles.

- Lead architecture governance and review boards, ensuring solutions comply with enterprise standards and security/governance frameworks.

- Evaluate and rationalize the application and technology portfolio, identifying modernization, consolidation, and obsolescence opportunities.

- Drive Cloud transformation and adoption strategies across Azure/AWS environments.

- Define and guide AI/GenAI adoption strategies, including enterprise AI reference architectures and governance frameworks.

- Work closely with CXOs, business leaders, technology teams, and delivery teams to translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions.

- Lead enterprise modernization and transformation initiatives, focusing on scalability, cost optimization, operational efficiency, and measurable business outcomes.

Must Have Skills :

- Modelling, Target-State Architecture, Architect Enterprise Architecture Business Capability Roadmaps.

- Cloud: Strong experience with Microsoft Azure and AWS.

- Cloud-Native Architecture: Microservices, APIs, distributed systems, containerization and modern application architectures.

- AI/GenAI: LLMs, Generative AI, RAG/CAG architectures, AI adoption strategy and governance.

- Application Portfolio Management: Application rationalization, modernization, technical debt and obsolescence management.

- Architecture Governance: Architecture review boards, technology standards, reference architectures and governance frameworks.

- Enterprise Integration & APIs: Enterprise integration patterns, API-led architecture and system interoperability.

Technical Leadership :

- Make authoritative decisions on technology selection, integration strategies, data models, API contracts, and infrastructure choices.

- Define and own the non-functional requirements (NFRs) framework - latency targets, throughput benchmarks, SLA/SLOs, and disaster recovery objectives.

- Drive platform modernization initiatives including cloud migration, service decomposition, and technical debt reduction.

- Champion code quality standards - SOLID principles, design patterns, test coverage, observability - and enforce them through automated pipelines and peer review frameworks.

- Design cloud-native architectures on AWS and/or Azure - including compute, storage, networking, security, and cost optimization strategies.

- Define CI/CD pipeline architecture using tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.

- Oversee infrastructure-as-code (IaC) standards using Terraform, AWS CDK, or Bicep.

- Guide teams in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and service mesh/API gateway design.

Skills

Enterprise Architect, Cloud, AWS, Azure, Generative AI, Microservices Architecture, Cloud Architect, Google Cloud Platform, IAC Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes