Enterprise Architect Mumbai
About Us
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Tata Digital is a future-ready company that focuses on creating consumer-centric, high-engagement digital products. By creating a holistic presence across various touchpoints, we aim to be the trusted partner of every consumer and delight them by powering a rewarding life. The companys debut offering, Tata Neu is a super-app that provides an integrated rewards experience across various consumer categories like groceries, fashion and electronics, travel and hospitality, health and fitness, entertainment, and financial services on a single platform. Founded in March 2019, Tata Digital Private Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Private Limited.
Our Culture
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We cultivate a culture of innovation, inclusion for all employees and respect their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We thrive on the diversity of our talent in all forms and see it as a strength in building high performance teams across brands. As we rewrite commerce in India, change is the only constant in our day to day lives.
Role Overview:
We are looking for an Enterprise Architect to lead the design and evolution of core backend systems at TATA Digital. This role needs deep technical experience in building distributed systems and a hands-on approach to architecture and code. You will define standards, guide teams, and build systems that scale reliably.
Why Join Us
Work on high-scale systems used by millions of users.
Influence the architecture of key platform components.
Collaborate with top talent across tech, product, and business.
Drive decisions that shape the future of digital commerce in India.
Roles Responsibilities:
Architecture System Design
Lead architecture for backend systems like customer accounts, payments, order management, and search.
Design systems that handle millions of users using microservices, event-driven patterns, and cloud-native tech.
Guide choices on databases, caching, APIs, and communication protocols (e.g., REST, gRPC, GraphQL).
Hands-on Technical Leadership
Write and review code when needed we value leaders who can roll up their sleeves.
Review architecture and code from other teams to ensure quality, scalability, and maintainability.
Solve hard technical problems like improving API performance under load or ensuring distributed consistency.
Mentorship Collaboration
Mentor senior engineers and help them grow into architects.
Collaborate with PMs, security, and DevOps to make informed decisions.
Ensure best practices in testing, monitoring, and operational readiness.
Operational Technical Excellence
Promote a strong on-call culture with clear ownership and SLAs.
Reduce manual operations with automation and self-healing systems.
Encourage clean code, reviews, and scalable design practices.
Design cloud-native systems using AWS or Azure.
What We re Looking For :
Experience Skills
12 16 years of backend or platform development experience.
Strong coding in Java, Kotlin, Python, or Go.
Experience with distributed systems in domains like e-commerce or fintech.
Good understanding of microservices, event-driven architecture, and API design.
Cloud experience with AWS or Azure (Azure is optional, but a plus).
Strong database knowledge: MongoDB, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, or Oracle.
Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, systems, and networking.
Leadership Mindset
Proven mentorship ability.
Strong communication explain complex ideas simply.
Curious and always improving.
Able to influence across engineering and product teams.
Nice to Have
Experience with Kafka, Flink, or similar real-time systems.
Familiarity with AI coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, JetBrains AI).