Enterprise Architect

Job Description :

We are seeking an Enterprise Architect with 20+ years of overall IT experience and 3 - 5 years in Enterprise / Solution Architecture using JAVA.

Proficient with Front & Back end technologies. Good expertise working in larger projects.

Tools & Languages :

- Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Microservices.

- RESTful API design and implementation.

- JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and modern frameworks like ReactJS or Angular.

- SQL, Relational Databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Teradata), and data pipeline design.

- Containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).

- CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins, and Maven.

Requirement :

- Strong hands-on background in software engineering and enterprise architecture.

- Experience in Enterprise Application Architect.

- Mandatory hands-on experience with SRE practices, including :

1. SLI / SLO / SLA definition.

2. Observability (metrics, logs, traces).

3. Reliability engineering and incident management.

- Proven experience providing architecture oversight across multiple engineering practices.

- Strong expertise in cloud architecture (Azure / AWS) and distributed systems.

- Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automation.

- Experience designing and governing highly available, scalable, and resilient systems.

- Strong integration experience across custom applications, data platforms.

- Excellent client-facing communication and leadership skills.

Job Description of Role :

1. Enterprise & Engineering Practice Oversight :

- Provide architectural oversight across Software Engineering, Cloud, selective Data platforms.

- Define and enforce enterprise-wide architecture standards, guardrails, and reference architectures across engineering practices.

- Ensure alignment between business objectives, engineering practices, and platform capabilities.

- Review and govern solution architectures across programs for scalability, security, cost efficiency, and operability.

2. SRE & Reliability Engineering :

- Champion SRE principles across all engineering practices.

- Define and govern SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and reliability targets at an enterprise level.

- Drive observability-first architecture covering logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and incident response.

- Embed resilience patterns (HA, DR, fault tolerance, auto-healing, chaos engineering) into solution designs.

- Provide architectural oversight for incident management, postmortems, reliability reviews, and capacity planning.

3. Cloud & Platform Architecture :

- Lead architecture for multi-cloud / hybrid cloud environments (Azure, AWS any one or Both).

- Define patterns for cloud-native, containerized, and platform-based architectures.

- Oversee SaaS, PaaS, environment standardization, and platform governance.

- Ensure cloud architectures are optimized for cost, security, reliability, and performance.

4. Software Architecture & Modern Engineering :

- Define scalable architectures for enterprise-grade web, mobile, and API-driven systems.

- Govern use of modern frameworks and stacks across practices (.NET, Java, Python, JavaScript frameworks, APIs).

- Ensure adherence to clean architecture, domain-driven design, and modular design principles.

- Review and guide architectural decisions for complex, distributed systems.

5. DevOps, CI/CD & Engineering Enablement :

- Ensure tight alignment between architecture, DevOps, and SRE practices.

- Govern CI/CD architecture, deployment strategies, and release reliability.

- Promote automation across build, test, deploy, monitoring, and recovery.

- Drive adoption of engineering excellence practices across teams.

6. Architecture Governance & Quality :

- Review solution designs for architectural conformance, reliability, security, and quality.

- Own and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts (reference architectures, standards, patterns, diagrams).

- Conduct architecture reviews and provide actionable guidance to delivery teams.

7. Customer & Stakeholder Alignment :

- Act as a trusted architectural advisor to customers and internal stakeholders.

- Collaborate with onshore architects and customer technology leaders to shape solutions.

- Translate business needs into robust, reliable, and future-proof architectures.

8. Risk Management & Compliance :

- Identify and mitigate technical, operational, and reliability risks.

- Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, performance, and business continuity requirements.

Soft Skills / Other Skills :

- Strong strategic thinking with the ability to balance innovation, reliability, and delivery velocity.

- Ability to influence across practices without direct authority.

- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills.

- Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

- Deep expertise in System Design.

- Foresight on long-term IT strategies to align technology with business goals.

Educational Qualification :

- Bachelors/masters degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

- Certifications (Preferred) : Azure / AWS ecosystem.

Skills

Enterprise Architect, Java, Enterprise Architecture, AWS, Distributed Systems, J2EE, Microservices Architecture, Spring Boot, System Design