{"id":3092761,"url":"https://alion.io/job/hcltech-senior-solution-architect-25","title":"Senior Solution Architect","company":{"id":225,"name":"HCLTech","domain":"hcltech.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/hcltech","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":32000,"max_usd":56000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":36},"experience_years_min":12,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"A2A","optional":false},{"name":"Agentforce","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Backstage","optional":false},{"name":"Chaos Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Claude","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"Clean Architecture","optional":false},{"name":"Context Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Copilot","optional":false},{"name":"Cursor","optional":false},{"name":"Envoy","optional":false},{"name":"FHIR","optional":false},{"name":"Fivetran","optional":false},{"name":"Gateway API","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"GraphQL","optional":false},{"name":"gRPC","optional":false},{"name":"HL7","optional":false},{"name":"Informatica","optional":false},{"name":"Istio","optional":false},{"name":"Java","optional":false},{"name":"Kong","optional":false},{"name":"Kong AI Gateway","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"LangGraph","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"LiteLLM","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"LLM Guardrails","optional":false},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":false},{"name":"MuleSoft","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI Agents SDK","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI Codex","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Portkey","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Semantic Kernel","optional":false},{"name":"Service Mesh","optional":false},{"name":"SLI/SLO/SLA","optional":false},{"name":"Structured Outputs","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"VPN","optional":false},{"name":"Zero Trust","optional":false},{"name":"Apex","optional":true},{"name":"LangChain","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-22T15:20:16Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-22","last_verified_at":"2026-10-24T13:04:26Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Job Summary\nThe Agentic Integration Architect connects enterprise systems, data, and AI. The role designs API, event-driven, messaging, cloud, and hybrid integration architectures, and builds MCP, AI Gateway, AI agent, and LLM-enabled integration solutions on top of them. It brings deep hands-on expertise in one or two integration platforms (MuleSoft, Kong, Boomi, Azure Integration Services, Kafka, or Workato), with working knowledge across the wider integration landscape.\nAs a CoE role, it defines reference architectures, frameworks, accelerators, governance, and best practices, evaluates emerging technology through PoCs, shapes integration strategy, creates architecture and thought-leadership assets, and mentors teams. It also supports Solutions and Advisory teams with expert input to workshops and proposals.\nDesign API, event-driven, messaging, cloud and hybrid integration architectures; build MCP, AI Gateway, AI Agent and LLM-enabled integration solutions; deep hands-on expertise in one or two of MuleSoft, Kong, Boomi, Azure Integration Services, Kafka or Workato, with working knowledge across the broader integration landscape; define reference architectures, frameworks, accelerators, governance and best practices; evaluate emerging technology and build PoCs; shape integration strategy; create architecture and thought-leadership assets; mentor teams and support workshops and proposals. Mandatory across all roles: practical AI-native engineering; strong modern application development; cloud-native, API, microservices and DevSecOps grounding; hands-on experience with at least one agent harness such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Kiro or Cursor; enterprise security, governance, evaluation, observability and cost awareness.\nKey Responsibilities\nA. Integration Architecture\nDesign API, event-driven, messaging, cloud, and hybrid integration architectures (on-premises, multi-cloud, SaaS, and legacy).\nDefine API strategy and lifecycle: design-first, versioning, contracts, catalogs, discoverability, and API products.\nDesign event and messaging architectures: topics, schemas and schema evolution, ordering, delivery guarantees, idempotency, replay, dead-letter handling, and event governance.\nApply integration patterns (orchestration vs. choreography, saga, CQRS, outbox, strangler, canonical models) with appropriate resilience and error handling.\nB. AI-Enabled Integration\nBuild MCP servers and gateways that expose enterprise APIs, events, and data to AI agents safely and consistently.\nDesign AI Gateway capabilities: model routing and failover, authentication and quotas, rate limiting, token and cost controls, caching, prompt and response policies, guardrails, and audit logging.\nBuild AI agent and LLM-enabled integration solutions, such as intelligent mapping and transformation, document and message classification, event enrichment, and agent-driven orchestration across systems.\nDesign agent-to-system integration patterns: tool contracts, idempotency, scoped credentials, approval gates, and safe retries.\nC. Platform Expertise\nProvide deep, hands-on architecture and build leadership on one or two of MuleSoft, Kong, Boomi, Azure Integration Services, Kafka, or Workato.\nMaintain working knowledge across the broader landscape (API gateways and management, iPaaS, ESB/legacy middleware, streaming platforms, service mesh, cloud-native integration services, B2B/EDI) and guide platform selection and coexistence.\nArchitect hybrid connectivity, networking, and security (private links, VPN, zero-trust, API security) for integration workloads.\nD. Reference Architectures, Governance & Accelerators\nDefine reference architectures, frameworks, and accelerators: API and event templates, MCP server and gateway templates, AI gateway policy packs, connector libraries, and CI/CD pipelines for integration assets.\nEstablish governance and best practices: API and event standards, schema and contract governance, lifecycle management, security policies, and an integration operating model.\nDefine evaluation, observability, security, and cost controls for integrations and AI-enabled flows (contract testing, tracing, SLOs, least privilege, token and platform cost management).\nE. Innovation & Proofs of Concept\nEvaluate emerging technology (MCP and agent interoperability protocols, AI gateways, platform AI features, streaming and event standards) and recommend where it fits.\nBuild PoCs that prove feasibility and value; convert successful PoCs into reusable assets and delivery-ready patterns.\nUse AI-native engineering and agent harnesses to build and iterate quickly while maintaining production quality.\nF. Integration Strategy & Engagement Support\nShape integration strategy: target architecture, platform rationalization, API and event maturity roadmaps, and AI-readiness of the integration layer.\nProvide expert architecture input to customer roadmaps, workshops, and demos led by Solutions and Advisory teams.\nContribute architecture content, estimation inputs, and risk framing to proposals and pursuits.\nTurn field feedback and engagement learnings back into CoE frameworks and accelerators.\nG. Thought Leadership & Mentoring\nCreate architecture and thought-leadership assets: whitepapers, point-of-view documents, reference diagrams, blogs, and briefing material.\nMentor engineers and architects; build capability across integration platforms and AI-enabled integration; contribute to training and certification pathways.\nSkill Requirements\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or an equivalent field, or equivalent practical experience.\n12+ years in software or integration architecture, with at least 6 years on one or more of the named integration platforms and at least 2 years building LLM-based, agent, or AI-enabled integration solutions.\nTrack record of delivering enterprise-scale API, event-driven, or hybrid integration programs, and of supporting field teams in customer workshops or proposals.\nTechnical Skills (Must Have)\n API architecture: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, AsyncAPI/OpenAPI, API lifecycle management, security (OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS), and API product thinking.\nEvent-driven and messaging architecture: Kafka and other brokers, schema registries, delivery semantics, stream processing basics, event modeling and governance.\nIntegration patterns and hybrid architecture: orchestration vs. choreography, saga, outbox, CQRS, legacy modernization, hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity.\nIntegration platform depth: deep hands-on expertise in one or two of MuleSoft, Kong, Boomi, Azure Integration Services, Kafka, or Workato, including design, build, deployment, and governance.\nBroader integration landscape: working knowledge of other API gateways, iPaaS, middleware, streaming, service mesh, and B2B platforms, and when to use each.\nMCP and AI Gateway: designing and building MCP servers; AI gateway policy, routing, quotas, guardrails, and observability.\nAI agent and LLM-enabled integration: agent architecture, tool contracts, orchestration, prompt and context engineering, structured outputs, LLM-assisted transformation and classification.\n AI-native engineering: practical use of AI across the development lifecycle; hands-on with at least one agent harness (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Kiro, or Cursor).\nModern application development: strong proficiency in at least one language such as Java, Python, TypeScript, or Go; clean architecture, testing, code review.\nCloud-native, API & microservices: AWS/Azure/GCP, containers, Kubernetes, serverless, service design, resilience patterns.\nDevSecOps: CI/CD for integration assets, infrastructure as code, secrets and certificate management, secure SDLC, API security testing.\nEnterprise readiness: security, governance, evaluation, observability, and cost awareness, including token, throughput, and platform licence cost modeling.\nBehavioral & Professional Skills\nTranslates integration complexity into clear target architectures and reusable patterns.\nClear communication with architects, engineers, and business stakeholders; strong written and visual architecture communication.\nPragmatic about platform choice; avoids favouring a vendor by default.\nMentoring, collaboration, and a strong sense of ownership across Advisory, Solutions, and CoE teams.\nOther Requirements\nRole-specific\nService mesh and API platform engineering (Istio, Envoy, Kong Mesh, Gateway API).\nChange data capture and data integration (Debezium, Fivetran, Informatica, Airbyte) and data-in-motion architectures.\nAgent interoperability protocols (A2A) and agent registries; agent frameworks (LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, Semantic Kernel).\nAI gateway and LLM proxy tooling (e.g., Kong AI Gateway, Azure API Management AI features, LiteLLM, Portkey).\nPlatform-native AI features (e.g., MuleSoft AI Chain / Agentforce integration, Boomi AI, Workato AI, Azure AI Foundry integration).\nEvent governance tools and API management portals (Confluent Schema Registry, AsyncAPI tooling, Backstage).\nB2B/EDI, healthcare (HL7/FHIR) or financial messaging standards (ISO 20022, SWIFT).\nPerformance and load testing; 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